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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 21, 2019
Verb Surgical Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Berk Gonenc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xin Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Bernhard A. Fuerst, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jose Luis Cordoba, Malaga, ES;
Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
VERB SURGICAL INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A control system for surgical robots based on proximity sensing, the control system including a proximity sensor coupled to a component of a surgical robot, the surgical robot component including a table, robotic arms coupled to the table, and surgical tools mounted on the robotic arms, the proximity sensor configured to sense a movement of a nearby controlling object in one or more degrees of freedom; and a processor configured to drive the component of the surgical robot to follow the movement of the controlling object.