Laura Lee Sullivan

US Patent:

20230092690, Mar 23, 2023

Filed:

Sep 21, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/480962

Inventors:

- Palo Alto 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 - Cupertion CA, US
Scott M Dellenbaugh - Fremont CA, US

Assignee:

RIOS Intelligent Machines, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

B65G 47/91
B25J 9/16
B25J 9/00
B25J 15/06

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.