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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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| 7853359 | Calibration device and method for robot mechanism A calibration device and method for automatically determining the position and the orientation of a robot used for measurement. First, an initial position of a preliminary position is generated based on a designated basic position, and it is judged whether the initi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7428446 | Dry powder dose filling systems and related methods Systems for flowably dispensing dry powders include means for generating a first non-linear vibration input signal, the first non-linear input signal comprising a carrier frequency modulated by a plurality of different selected frequencies that correspond to a first... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7272524 | Method and a system for programming an industrial robot to move relative to defined positions on an object, including generation of a surface scanning program A method and a system for programming an industrial robot to move relative to defined positions on an object. The system includes a geometrical model of the object, the real object, and an industrial robot. A plurality of measuring points are generated corresponding... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7254464 | System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7239940 | Modularity system for computer assisted surgery A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include robotic arms and instruments used to perform a medical procedure. The sys... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7181314 | Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly An industrial robot that has 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 an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7153085 | Multi-modal package handling tool and system A multi-modal package handling tool and system uses a robot carrying an end of arm tool incorporating several package handling devices such as vacuum carrying units, extensible package grippers, and a slideably deployable package platform. Each these package handlin... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148644 | Marking robot A robot adapted to operate in association with an interface surface having disposed therein or thereon coded data indicative of a plurality of reference points of the interface surface, the robot comprising: movement means to allow... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136722 | Method for generating a motion of a human type link system A human-type link system, such as a humanoid robot having a dynamically feasible motion of the link system that is generated when a reference joint acceleration that is only calculated from a kinematical constraint condition is determined not feasible by an evaluati... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117067 | System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive co... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104334 | Deployable automatic foaming fire protection system A deployable automatic foam fire suppressant system comprising a pump module having at least one pump coupled to a foam material source, the at least one pump comprising a pump suction component for the supply of water, and a supply module configured for coupling to... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107124 | Roll-pitch-roll wrist methods for minimally invasive robotic surgery A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24L) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer (42). Cam... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101363 | Medical manipulator having a plurality of joints A manipulator for medical use having a reduced size and improved controllability. The manipulator includes a surgical tool portion, a grip portion provided on the surgical tool portion, and a driver portion for driving the grip portion provided on the surgical tool ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7054715 | System, method, and program for robot control System and method for allowing execution of control over robot hardware other than specific robot hardware by using control software that does not have features to be applied to the robot hardware other than the specific hardware designed for control. Control softwa... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7020537 | Tuning electrodes used in a reactor for electrochemically processing a microelectronic workpiece A facility for selecting and refining electrical parameters for processing a microelectronic workpiece in a processing chamber is described. The facility initially configures the electrical parameters in accordance with either a numerical of the processing chamber o... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6996456 | Robot with tactile sensor device Methods and apparatuses for calibrating and teaching a robot to accurately work within a work environment. The present invention preferably provides one or more tactile sensor devices that may be operatively coupled with a robot or positioned at one or more desired ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6941192 | Robot machining tool position and orientation calibration A robot having a spindle is calibrated by disposing a calibration tool in the robot spindle. The position of the calibration tool is measured. An axis of the spindle is determined based on the measured position. A calibration tool center point is determined based on... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6917176 | Gas main robotic inspection system The present invention provides a long-range, untethered, live, in-pipe inspection system that includes a self-propelled train having a plurality of modules; joint members for interconnecting adjacent modules, data collection components, and wireless communication co... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914404 | Motor controller A motor controller, comprising a first simulation control unit (8) and a second simulation control unit (9) as a feed forward control means for inputting a command to an actual control unit (10) performing a feedback control, wherein the control... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6898487 | Specimen sensing and edge gripping end effector Robot arm end effectors rapidly transfer semiconductor wafers between a wafer cassette and a processing station. Preferred embodiments of the end effectors include proximal and distal rest pads, the latter having pad and backstop portions that support and grip the w... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6889116 | Manipulator A manipulator comprises an operation command unit provided with an attitude adjusting unit and an end effector control unit, a connecting unit having one end connected to the operation command unit, a working unit connected to the other end of the connecting unit an... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6772053 | Aspects of a control system of a minimally invasive surgical apparatus A surgical method and a control system is provided. The surgical method and the control system can advantageously be used in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus. The method includes generating a desired surgical instrument movement command signal. It further inc... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6701193 | Method of adaptively controlling paint system A method is provided of adaptively controlling a paint system for painting vehicle bodies. The method includes the steps of obtaining an estimated Jacobian that identifies characteristics of the paint system and using the estimated Jacobian to determine i... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6690999 | Manipulator control method A method for controlling a hyper-redundant manipulator including a plurality of links coupled by joints by determining the shape the manipulator takes when the end of the manipulator is moved to a target position, includes modeling each link as an elastic... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6678581 | Method of calibrating a wafer edge gripping end effector A method of calibrating a wafer edge gripping end effector. A wafer calibration tool is held in a stationary position simulating the position of a semiconductor wafer to be picked up by the wafer edge gripping end effector. A controller associated with a ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6651025 | Method and device for determining a regularity The invention relates to a device or method to determine the phenomenological regularity of the phase modulation of one or more cyclically fluctuating quantities, including the possibility to determine a regularity induced by mutual interaction. According... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6643563 | Trajectory planning and motion control strategies for a planar three-degree-of-freedom robotic arm A method for moving a substrate to a predetermined location with a specified orientation with a robotic manipulator, the robotic manipulator having a plurality of joint actuators and an end-effector for holding the substrate, wherein the end-effector is i... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6643564 | Method of determining retreat permission position of carrier arm and teaching device thereof A retreat permission position of a carrier arm when the carrier arm is moved back to retreat outside a mounting table after the carrier arm carries a substrate to a position above the mounting table while holding a peripheral portion of the substrate, to ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6618645 | Method of using a specimen sensing end effector to determine angular orientation of a specimen Robot arm (16) end effectors (10, 110, 210) of this invention rapidly and cleanly transfer semiconductor wafers (12) between a wafer cassette (14) and a processing station. The end effectors include fiber optic light transmission sensors (90, 102, 202, 21... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6597971 | Device for avoiding interference An interference avoiding device for determining occurrence of an interference in a robot operation in advance and automatically avoiding the interference, to be suitably applied to an automatic picking-up operation of randomly stored workpieces. A positio... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591165 | Robot apparatus, body unit and coupling unit A robot system having a plurality of component units. The robot system includes a first storage device, and a second storage device. The robot system further includes a plurality of control devices, with a first component control device provided with the ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584378 | Device and a method for determining coordinates and orientation When determining coordinates of a point of an object (2) in a reference system of coordinates and the orientation of the object in the space in a measuring position assumed by the object, the object is moved from a start position having known coordinates ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6522949 | Robot controller When a position deviation of teaching point of a robot manipulator is detected during continuous operation of a robot system, device for correcting the teaching point without stopping continuous operation of the robot system is provided, thereby presentin... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6490504 | Feeding robot and control method therefor A feeding robot which is capable of drawing a glass panel for a liquid crystal display from a cassette without bringing it into collision with the cassette, and then feeding the drawn glass panel with a reduced error, and a method for controlling the same... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6470237 | Robot having a body unit and plural component units connected thereto A robot is provided which comprises a body unit, plural component units connected to the body unit, a memory mounted on the body unit for storing unit information of each of the component units and a basic operation program, a control unit mounted on the ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6456901 | Hybrid robot motion task level control system A hybrid control system is provided for controlling the movement of a robot. The hybrid control system includes a singularity detector; a task level controller that receives a motion plan and determines a first set of control commands which are defined in... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6453214 | Method of using a specimen sensing end effector to align a robot arm with a specimen stored on or in a container Robot arm (16) end effectors (10, 110, 210) of this invention rapidly and cleanly transfer semiconductor wafers (12) between a wafer cassette (14) and a processing station. The end effectors include proximal and distal rest pads (24, 26, 124, 126) having ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6442450 | Robot device and motion control method The robot apparatus of the present invention autonomously makes natural motions. The robot apparatus is provided with a control means 32, which has a feeling/instinct model that causes a motion and changes the feeling/instinct model based on input informa... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438458 | Substrate conveying system in semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A substrate conveying system wherein, at a substrate transfer position of a conveyance robot, a robot arm is moved upwardly at a normal speed from its lowermost position, and wherein the movement speed is changed to a lower speed at a predetermined positi... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6427098 | Method for controlling pivoting machine member A method and apparatus for control of pivoting machine members propelled by linear actuators so as to permit coordinated motion of the pivoting members with translating machine members. Position commands for the pivoting machine members are given in angul... | 07/30/2002 |
