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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185243 | Robot, control device for robot arm and control program for robot arm A robot arm, which is driven by an elastic body actuator and has a plurality of joints, is provided with an arm-end supporting member that supports the robot arm when made in contact with a supporting surface that is placed on an arm-end portion of the robot arm and... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8121732 | Target position detection apparatus for robot A target position detection apparatus for a robot includes: a robot including an arm configured to be freely moved in at least two directions of X and Y axes, the arm having a wrist axis provided at a distal end of the arm and configured to be freely moved in a hori... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8099193 | Control system for an industrial robot A control system for controlling an industrial robot and a method thereof. A control unit generates a control signal for controlling the motor. At least one drive unit controls the motor. The drive unit includes a switching unit adapted to convert DC current to alte... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8073568 | Device utilizing a PID controller, control method thereof, and robot utilizing the controller A control method utilizing a PID controller includes detecting the position of an object and obtaining the position deviation by comparison with a predetermined position value, detecting the vibration of the object and obtaining a vibration value, adjusting the cont... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8005573 | Control device for legged mobile robot On the basis of at least a difference between a desired state amount related to a posture of a robot 1 about a vertical axis or a floor surface normal line axis and an actual state amount of the robot 1 and a permissible range of a restriction object a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7966094 | Workpiece picking apparatus A workpiece picking apparatus includes a robot, a workpiece recognition device for recognizing the workpieces located in a wide area, an accurate measurement device for accurately measuring the three-dimensional position of the workpiece, a workpiece select device f... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7853358 | Method and apparatus for controlling displacements of a moving portion of a multi-axis robot The inventive method consists in supplying motion instructions (300) at least including information about the path geometry (320) and load instructions (310) to a path generator (400), calculating an allied load signal (800), trans... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848849 | Controller of leg type moving robot A controller of a leg type moving robot determines an action force to be input to an object dynamic model 2 such that a motion state amount (object model velocity) of the object dynamic model 2 follows a desired motion state amount based on a moving pl... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7778733 | Grip strength with tactile feedback for robotic surgery Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuratio... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7606634 | Control device for mobile body Ground contact portions 10 are classified into a tree structure such that each of the ground contact portions 10 of a mobile body 1 (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact portions 10 becomes a leaf node and that an inte... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7558647 | Device and method for controlling robot arm, robot and program based on object-dependent impedance In a robot arm controlling device, a mechanical impedance set value of the arm is set by an object property-concordant impedance setting device based on information of an object property database in which information associated with properties of an object being gri... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7493192 | Gait producing device for leg type movable robot, and control device A desired trajectory of a vertical component of a translation floor reaction force of a legged mobile robot 1, a vertical component of a total center-of-gravity acceleration or a body acceleration's vertical component of the robot 1 is determined, and ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7440819 | Animation system for a robot comprising a set of movable parts The object of the invention is to make the movable parts of a robot reproduce the movement of the movable parts of an animated object, via the transmission of movement parameters to the robot in a primary signal PS. The primary signal PS comprises sets of parameters... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437214 | Robot device and method of controlling the same A legged mobile robot can calculate the movement amount between a portion of the robot apparatus that had been in contact with a floor up to now and a next portion of the robot apparatus in contact with the floor using kinematics and to switch transformation to a co... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430457 | Robot teaching program editing apparatus based on voice input Candidate character strings representing objects disposed in a work cell, models for robot operation instructions which has variable parts, and robot commands related to the objects are defined in advance. By inputting a query such as ‘Workpiece 1 ?’ by voice, t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415321 | Robot controller Realized is a robot controller capable of handling a large amount of data of images and so on necessary for advanced intelligence of control while securing a real-time performance with a simple structure. For this purpose, there are provided a motion control device ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409265 | Leg-type moving robot and floor reaction force detection device thereof It is arranged such that displacement sensors (70) are installed at a position in or vicinity of elastic members (382), to generate outputs indicating a displacement of the floor contact end of a foot (22) relative to a second joint (18, 20 | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400939 | Robot device, motion control device for robot device and motion control method A motion equation with a boundary condition regarding a future center-of-gravity horizontal trajectory of a robot is solved so that the moment around a horizontal axis at a point within a support polygon is zero when the robot is in contact with a floor or so that h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386366 | Feedback estimation of joint forces and joint movements Apparatus and methods are provided for estimating joint forces and moments in human beings. A forward dynamics module determines simulated kinematic data. An error correction controller forces tracking error between the simulated kinematic data and measured (or desi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379789 | Gait generating device of legged mobile robot and legged mobile robot controller A permissible range of a restriction object amount, which is a vertical component of a floor reaction force moment or a component of the floor reaction force moment in floor surface normal line direction, or a vertical component of an angular momentum changing rate ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7371210 | Flexible instrument A remote control flexible instrument system, employing a shaft which supports a tool, is described in which the has proximal and distal ends with at least a portion thereof extending through a lumen of the human body so as to locate the shaft at an internal target s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373219 | Grip strength with tactile feedback for robotic surgery Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuratio... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366587 | Legged mobile robot The characteristics of actuators themselves and the characteristics of controllers for the actuators are dynamically or statically controlled to achieve stable and highly efficient movements. In a stage in which a leg in the flight state is uplifted such that the re... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363109 | Backlash compensation control method, backlash compensation controller and backlash compensation control program To allow a robot performing a cyclic movement upon receipt of a driving force transmitted through a driving force transmission system from a driving source along with a backlash to perform the movement compensated for the backlash, during a first period within a cyc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359766 | Robot cleaner and operating method thereof A robot cleaner comprises a suction unit installed within a cleaner body, for sucking dirt on a floor; a driving unit for moving the cleaner body; a wheel installed at a bottom of the cleaner body to be contacted with the floor, and rotated by movement of the cleane... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343223 | Robot apparatus and load sensor A load sensor that is inoperable even when applied with a large load, has a simple structure easily designed to be lightweight and compact and can detect a load with a high accuracy, and a legged robot apparatus including the load sensor in each of legs thereof. The... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340323 | Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly An industrial robot that uses a simulated force vector to allow a work piece held by the robot end effector to be mated with a work piece whose location and orientation is not precisely known to the robot. When the end effector makes contact with the location and or... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337040 | Self-position estimating device for leg type movable robots Based on a detected or estimated value of an actual posture of a predetermined part, such as a body 3, of a robot 1 and a deviation the actual posture from a posture of a desired gait, a posture rotational deviation's variation is determined as the tem... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337039 | Gait producing device for leg type movable robot There are provided device for determining a desired trajectory of a translation floor reaction force's vertical component of a legged mobile robot 1, a vertical component of the total center-of-gravity acceleration or a body acceleration vertical component of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330777 | Robot coordinated control method and system A reference signal is transmitted from one of a plurality of robot control devices connected by communication connecting device to the other robot control device. The timing of generation of an operation basic period signal in each of the other robot control devices... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330776 | System, apparatus, and method for managing and controlling robot competitions A system and method for operating robots in a robot competition. One embodiment of the system may include operator interfaces, where each operator interface is operable to control movement of a respective robot. A respective operator interface may be in communicatio... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328087 | Bipedal robot with storage battery A bipedal robot of the present invention has a trunk consisting of an upper trunk and a lower trunk which are rotatable around a rotation axis relative to one another. The upper trunk has shoulders on the right and left sides. An arm is provided at each shoulder. A ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324872 | Robot apparatus An external force estimation system for estimating an external force acting upon a robot apparatus which includes a machine body which in turn includes a plurality of movable joints is disclosed which includes a distribution type contacting state detection section, ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319919 | Control device and footstep determination device for legged mobile robot A landing position/orientation of a foot (22) to be landed in a landing action of a robot (1) such as a biped mobile robot or the like is estimated, and a desired footstep path for the robot (1) is set up. Based on the estimated landing position... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319917 | Gait generation device for legged mobile robot A gait generation device for generating a desired gait which includes floating periods in which all the legs 2, 2 of a legged mobile robot 1 float in the air and landing periods in which at least one leg 2 is in contact with a floor which appear... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319918 | Gait generation device for legged mobile robot A gait generation device for setting a translation floor reaction force's horizontal component (component concerning a friction force) applied to a robot 1, a limitation-target quantity, such as a ZMP, and an allowable range, for determining at least a provis... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313463 | Biomimetic motion and balance controllers for use in prosthetics, orthotics and robotics Systems for controlling the motion of multiple articulated elements connected by one or more joints in an artificial appendage system. Four different embodiments includes a controller that reduces the dimension of joint state space by utilizing biomechanically inspi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313462 | Integrated tool with automated calibration system and interchangeable wet processing components for processing microfeature workpieces An integrated tool and automatic calibration systems that enable wet chemical processing chambers, lift-rotate units and other hardware to be quickly interchanged without having to recalibrate the transport system or other components to the replacement items. These ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310571 | Method and apparatus for reducing environmental load generated from living behaviors in everyday life of a user An apparatus calculates, based on unimproved behavior amounts, behavior amount variations of living behaviors when each of living behaviors increases by one unit behavior amount, calculates environmental load variation of living behavior when the living behavior inc... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310570 | Medical tele-robotic system A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote con... | 12/18/2007 |
