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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2020
Mako Surgical Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);
David Gene Bowling, Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, NM (US);
John Michael Stuart, Rio Rancho, NM (US);
Jerry A. Culp, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Donald W. Malackowski, Schoolcraft, MI (US);
José Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera, Freiburg, DE;
Patrick Roessler, Merzhausen, DE;
Joel N. Beer, Albuquerque, NM (US);
MAKO Surgical Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A system includes a robotic manipulator and an end effector coupled to the robotic manipulator and being moveable for interacting with a target site in a manual mode and an autonomous mode of operation. A navigation system is configured to track a position of the end effector and the target site. One or more controllers are configured to define a virtual boundary relative to the target site, prevent the end effector from penetrating the virtual boundary in the autonomous mode, and allow the end effector to penetrate the virtual boundary in the manual mode.