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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2021
Rios Intelligent Machines, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher Lalau Keraly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christipher A. Paulson, Belmont, CA (US);
Nicholas L. Choi, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Laura L. Sullivan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Leo Keselman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Benedict, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kent A. Evans, Cupertino, CA (US);
Scott M. Dellenbaugh, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A robotic work cell uses an object separating mechanism to disperse bulk objects into a 2D arrangement on a horizontal surface and uses a vision system to generate pick-up (positional) data and rotational orientation data for each sequentially selected target object of the 2D arrangement. A pick-and-place robot mechanism uses the positional data to pick-up each target object and uses the rotational orientation data to reorientate the target object during transfer to a designated hand-off location. A carousel-type robotic end-tool disposed on a 4-axis object-processing robot mechanism rotates a gripper mechanism around a vertical axis to move the target object from the hand-off location to a designated processing location, where an associated processing device performs a desired process (e.g., label application) on the target object. In one embodiment the gripper mechanism is selectively rotatable around a horizontal axis to facilitate processing on opposing surfaces of the target object.