Systems and methods for detecting blind spots using a robotic apparatus are disclosed herein. According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a robot may utilize a plurality of virtual robots or representations to determine intersection points between extended measurements from the robot and virtual measurements from a respective one of the virtual robot or representation to determine blind spots. The robot may additionally consider locations of the blind spots while navigating a route to enhance safety, wherein the robot may perform an action to alert nearby humans upon navigating near a blind spot along the route.

A robot system includes a robot configured to perform a work to a workpiece, and a user interface configured to remotely manipulate the robot. The robot includes a robotic arm, a robot hand attached to the robotic arm and configured to perform the work to the workpiece, and an acceleration sensor attached to the robot hand. The robot system further includes a speaker configured to output an acceleration signal from the acceleration sensor as perceptual information.

A method includes grasping a user input device in communication with a surgical tool of a robotic surgical system, the surgical tool including an end effector with opposing jaws, squeezing the user input device and thereby actuating a motor that closes the jaws and clamps down on tissue at a surgical site, and calculating with a computer system in communication with the surgical tool work completed by the motor to close the jaws and clamp down on the tissue. The computer system generates one or more effort indicators when the work completed by the motor meets or exceeds one or more predetermined work increments corresponding to operation of the motor, and communicates the one or more effort indicators to an operator.

A robot decelerates or stops, without using an area sensor, when a worker enters a robot operating area. The safety vision device includes a human three-dimensional skeleton estimation model, a robot three-dimensional skeleton estimation model, an input unit for inputting a two-dimensional image of a worker and a robot captured by an external camera, and a distance and a tilt between the camera and the robot, an estimation unit that inputs, to the models, the two-dimensional image and the distance and tilt, to estimate three-dimensional joint point data indicating the three-dimensional coordinate values of the position of a joint point of the worker, and the angles of a plurality of joint axes included in the robot, and an approach determination unit that calculates a worker area and a robot area, and outputs an instruction to decelerate or stop the robot, depending on the degree of overlap of the areas.

Systems and methods for determining safe and unsafe zones in a workspacewhere safe actions are calculated in real time based on all relevant objects (e.g., some observed by sensors and others computationally generated based on analysis of the sensed workspace) and on the current state of the machinery (e.g., a robot) in the workspacemay utilize a variety of workspace-monitoring approaches as well as dynamic modeling of the robot geometry. The future trajectory of the robot(s) and/or the human(s) may be forecast using, e.g., a model of human movement and other forms of control. Modeling and forecasting of the robot may, in some embodiments, make use of data provided by the robot controller that may or may not include safety guarantees.

The invention discloses a mobile robot configured for delivering consumable items to delivery recipients. The mobile robot comprises an item compartment with a top section, a separator, and a bottom section. The mobile robot also comprises a temperature control component. The invention also discloses a method for delivering consumable items to delivery recipients using the mobile robot.

A robot includes a main body provided with a traveling unit, a body display unit disposed on an upper portion of a front side of the main body and elongated in a vertical direction, a head display unit rotatably connected to an upper portion of the body display unit, a rotary motor disposed inside the body display unit, a rotational shaft elongated in a vertical direction and rotated by the rotary motor to rotate the head display unit, and a speaker disposed inside the body display unit, spaced apart from the rotary motor, and overlapping the rotational shaft in a horizontal direction. The robot selectively receives various types of service modules to provide different services.

An artificial intelligence (AI) robot and a method for controlling the AI robot, includes detecting a target object changing its position in a travel area after determining a condition of the travel area based on an image captured by an image capturing unit while the AI robot is traveling in the travel area. The AI robot is controlled to travel based on the target object detected.

This method for controlling an industrial robot comprising a moving robot arm provided with at least one electric motor suitable for moving this robot arm includes the following steps: a) the execution (1000), by a central unit, of a control program of the robot arm and, in response, the calculation and sending of position instructions of the robot arm; b) generation (1004) of supply voltages of the motor by an axis controller as a function of the calculated position instructions, implementing cascading regulators including at least one entry point receiving an input signal; and c) controlling (1006) the motor with the generated supply voltages.
During step b), a sound excitation signal is superimposed with the input signal of one of the regulators to form a composite signal, the supply voltages being generated as a function of the composite signal.

A mounting system of the present disclosure includes a mounting line having multiple mounting machines aligned side by side in a predetermined arrangement and configured to mount a component on a board, a supply device configured to convey members for use in the mounting machines and supply the members to the mounting machines by traveling in the arrangement direction, and a reporting section configured to issue a warning when the members are not supplied to the mounting machines by the supply device.