ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,481, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Robot control device and robot control method" was invented by Yusuke Kawabe (Tokyo), Kensuke Kitamura (Tokyo) and Katsuhisa Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a robot control device including a detection section that detects an external force applied to a movable part of a robot, on the basis of a parameter obtained from a joint driving the movable part, and a driving control section that controls an interaction of the robot, according to the detected external force. With this configuration, in a case where a user touches the rob...