Robotic work cell and network

US11383390B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• RIOS Intelligent Machines, Inc.

Inventors

• Matthew E. Shaffer · Menlo Park, US
• Christopher Lalau Keraly · San Francisco, US
• Clinton Smith · San Francisco, US
• Christopher A. Paulson · Redwood City, US
• Bernard D. Casse · Saratoga, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 27, 2020
• Grant date: Jul 12, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 19, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A robotic network includes multiple work cells that communicate with a cloud server using a network bus (e.g., the Internet). Each work cell includes an interface computer and a robotic system including a robot mechanism and a control circuit. Each robot mechanism includes an end effector/gripper having integral multimodal sensor arrays that measure physical parameter values (sensor data) during interactions between the end effector/gripper and target objects. The cloud server collects and correlates sensor data from all of the work cells to facilitate efficient diagnosis of problematic robotic operations (e.g., accidents/failures), and then automatically updates each work cell with improved operating system versions or AI models (e.g., including indicator parameter value sets and associated secondary robot control signals that may be used by each robot system to detect potential imminent robot accidents/failures during subsequent robot operations.