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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1997
Burleigh M Hutchins, Upton, MA (US);
Tye B Fowler, Bellingham, MA (US);
David R Friswell, Upton, MA (US);
Paul A Kearsley, Hopedale, MA (US);
Bruce A Swanson, Mansfield, MA (US);
Eugene T Tetreault, Sutton, MA (US);
Jack Elands, Oberhaslach, FR;
Zymark Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A robotic system for processing a plurality of products, the system including a plurality of units arranged to sequentially receive the products and each having a work station for effecting a specific operation on the products; and a robotic device associated with each unit and operable to sequentially obtain the products from a preceding unit, to transport the products to the work station of its associated unit and to transport the products from the associated work station to a position accessible to a robotic device of a succeeding unit.