US Patent Issued to OMRON on Jan. 27 for "Robot, gripping force control device, gripping force control method, and recording medium storing gripping force control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,799, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Robot, gripping force control device, gripping force control method, and recording medium storing gripping force control program" was invented by Chisato Nakashima (Kyoto, Japan) and Misato Nabeto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This robot comprises: a finger that grips a workpiece; a motor that drives the finger; a driving current detection unit that detects a driving current of the motor; a gripper including a tactile sensor provided in the finger; a driving force calculation unit that calculates a driving force applied to the workpiece by the finger ...