United States
US 12,697,727 B2
Systems, devices, and methods for contact detection by a robot system
US 12,697,727 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.
- Applicant
- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Inventors
- Connor Richard Shannon; Kevin Jiaming Wu
- Publication date
- 2026-08-04
- Filing date
- 2024-04-19
- Document type
- B2 Granted patent
- Also written as
- US 12,697,727 B2 · US12697727 · 12697727
Abstract
A robot has a controller and a sensor. The sensor is communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller includes a contact response system. A safety response of the contact response system is activated for the sensor. A method of operation of the robot includes detecting, by the sensor, a contact between the robot and a human, the contact resulting from a motion of the robot, and determining, by the controller, whether the contact between the robot and the human is an expected or unexpected contact.…
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