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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2023
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Youko Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Natsukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masatsugu Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masumi Ichien, Tokyo, JP;
Terumasa Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1661 (2013.01); B25J 15/0616 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control method includes: acquiring article information including a price of an article to be handled by a robot arm; deciding, based on the article information, a handling method of the article to be handled by the robot arm as a handling method in which as the price of the article is higher, damage prevention of the article is more prioritized; and controlling the robot arm that handles the article based on the handling method.