Kuka Deutschland Gmbh

Kuka Laboratories Gmbh

Kuka Roboter Gmbh

Thomas Neff

Tobias Ortmaier

Dirk Jacob

Sebastian Lohmeier

Wolfgang Schober

Holger Mönnich

Marc-Walter Ueberle

Cuong Nguyen-Xuan

Markus Finke

Martin Kuschel

Oliver Thilmann

Tobias Reichl

Henrik Keller

Bettina Pfaff

Christian Meissner

Achim Heinze

Olaf Wegener

Anja Werling

Maximilian Heinig

Marcus Hansen

Michael Wolf

Horacio Martinez

Christian Fremuth-Paeger

Mario Miller

Thomas Heinrich

Holger Moennich

Nina Sauthoff

Osama Shahin

Anja Groch

A method, a robot, and a robot controller for automatically scheduling the timing of a plurality of brake tests, that succeed one another at time intervals, at a plurality of brakes of a robot arm equipped with a plurality of joints and a plurality of links connecting the joints to one another and is connected to a robot controller which is designed and configured to control the joints and the brakes, in order to move the robot arm. At least one individual parameter is configured for each of the brakes. A brake test method associated with the robot arm is automatically initialized, and the initialized brake test method is automatically carried out in accordance with the configured parameters.

Method for automatically scheduling the timing of brake tests, and associated robot

A method for operating a medical robot, a medical robot, and a medical work station. The invention relates to a method for operating a medical robot (). The robot () includes a robot arm () having a plurality of members (), drives () provided for moving the members (), and an attaching device (). The robot () also has a control device () for activating the drives (), and a sound generating device () attached to the attaching device (), which is provided to apply sound to a living organism (), in particular a high-intensity focused ultrasound.

Method for operating a medical robot, a medical robot, and a medical workstation

A packaging technique for applying an insulating pack to the housing of a battery cell. The insulating pack is formed from a self-adhesive cutout of insulating material by folding the cutout onto the sides of the housing that are to be covered. The packaging technique involves a packaging method for automatically applying an insulating pack, a battery cell including an insulating pack, a packaging station for carrying out the method, and a preparation device for preparing one or more cutouts of insulating material.

Method for safe coupling and decoupling of an input device

One aspect of the robotic surgery system according to the invention relates to a robot assembly comprising at least one robot and an instrument assembly comprising at least one instrument that is guided by said robot assembly. Said instrument assembly comprises at least one instrument housing having at least one drive unit housing part containing a cavity designed to hold the drive unit, said drive unit housing part having a seal for the sterile sealing of an insertion opening of the cavity in addition to a dynamic sterile barrier which delimits the cavity in a sterile manner and across which the drive train arrangement can be actuated; and/or the drive unit is offset laterally in relation to a longitudinal axis of the instrument shaft towards a connection between the instrument housing and the robot assembly.

Robotic surgery system

An instrument assembly for a surgical robot system having at least one robot assembly includes at least one instrument having an instrument shaft configured for partial insertion into a patient and an instrument interface configured to attach the instrument to the robot assembly. The instrument assembly further includes a drive unit that actuates at least one degree of freedom of the instrument shaft. The drive unit includes a drive part with at least one drive and an electronic part. A manual operating unit is selectively replaceable with the drive unit.

The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling a robot, which non-simultaneously shares a working space with another robot. On the basis of a determined residual period, in which the working space remains occupied, the path planning of a robot is adjusted in a cycle time-optimized manner, in order to avoid a deceleration at the working space limit and a wait for the working space to be vacated.

Flexible cycle time-optimized sharing of a working space for robots

A telepresence system includes a man-machine interface and a teleoperator configured to communicate bidirectionally with the man-machine interface via a communications channel. The teleoperator performs actions based on first signals generated due to a manual operation of the man-machine interface and transmitted over the communication channel, and sends second signals to the man-machine interface over a second communication channel. At least one buffer device buffers signals transferred through the communication channel and releases the signals delayed so that the signals coming from the man-machine interface and the signals coming from the teleoperator each are transmitted through the communication channel with an effective constant time delay.

Telepresence system

A medical work station for treating a living being using a medical instrument includes at least one robot arm, which has a plurality of members connected by joints, drives to move the members, and an attaching device, at least one control device coupled with the drives, which is set up to generate signals for actuating the drives, so that the attaching devices carry out movements assigned to the signals, and a display device coupled with the control device.

Medical workstation

The invention relates to a sterile barrier (S) for a surgical robot () comprising at least one joint () with two opposing joint members () that rotate relative to one another about a common joint axis () and a torque sensor () comprising: at least two sterile barrier sections () each with an end section () for sealed attachment to a respective joint end section () of the joint member (); and a sealing arrangement () for producing a sterile and sealed rotating connection of the end sections () of the at least two sterile barrier sections (); and a surgical robot ().

Sterile barrier for a surgical robot with torque sensors

The invention relates to a medical device, a medical work station, and a method for registering an object (P). The medical device comprises a navigation system () and a robot (R) having several axes of rotation (-). The navigation system () comprises a detection device () for detecting prominent points on an object (P) or markers (M) placed on the object (P) as well as a processing device () for determining the position of the object (P) on the basis of the prominent points or markers (M) detected by means of the detection device (). The detection device () of the navigation system is mounted on the robot (R).

Device comprising a robot, medical work station, and method for registering an object

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Thomas Neff