Rethink Robotics Gmbh

Rodney Brooks

Noelle Dye

Bruce M Blumberg

Matthew Murray Williamson

Michael Sussman

Christopher J Buehler

Michael Siracusa

Natan Linder

Gerry Ens

Michael E Caine

Elaine Chen

Matthew DiCicco

William A Goodwin

Joseph M Romano

Yuri A Ivanov

Matthew M Williamson

Patrick A Deegan

Paula Long

Albert Huang

Elaine Y Chen

Systems and methods for simultaneously and economically providing high speed and precision robotic operations with operational safety include directly performing training movements of a desired task on a collaborative robot, recording data corresponding to the training movements, and transmitting the recorded data to a conventional robot to cause the conventional robot to autonomously execute the training movements in accordance with the received data.

Hybrid training with collaborative and conventional robots

Systems and methods for providing precise robotic operations without the need for special or task-specific components utilize, in one implementation, a spatial adjustment system, physically separate from the robotic manipulator, supports the target workpiece and works in concert with the robotic manipulator to perform tasks with high spatial precision.

Robotic placement and manipulation with enhanced accuracy

In various embodiments, safe collaboration between a robot and humans is achieved by operating the robot continuously at or below a first threshold speed at which any collisions with a person's arms do not cause harm, and, upon detection of the person's torso or head within a danger zone around the robot, reducing the speed to or below a second threshold at which any collisions with the person's torso or head do not cause harm.

Systems and methods for safe robot operation

Robots may manipulate objects based on sensor input about the objects and/or the environment in conjunction with data structures representing primitive tasks and, in some embodiments, objects and/or locations associated therewith. The data structures may be created by instantiating respective prototypes during training by a human trainer.

Training and operating industrial robots

In accordance with various embodiments, a user interface embedded into a robot facilitates robot training via direct and intuitive physical interactions. In some embodiments, the user interface includes a wrist cuff that, when grasped by the user, switches the robot into zero-force gravity-compensated mode.

User interfaces for robot training

In accordance with various embodiments, a user interface embedded into a robot facilitates robot training via direct and intuitive physical interactions.

In accordance with various embodiments, a user-guidable robot appendage provides haptic feedback to the user.

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Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Rodney Brooks