B25J 9/02
Program-controlled manipulators: characterised by movement of the arms
Official title: characterised by movement of the arms, e.g. cartesian coordinate type (B25J9/06 takes precedence)
B25J9/02 (Program-controlled manipulators: characterised by movement of the arms) appears on 2,275 US grants and 2,338 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic surgical system for performing minimally invasive medical procedures1,927US 8,506,555 B2European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) · 2013
- System and method for augmentation of endoscopic surgery1,240US 5,417,210 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Surgical manipulator1,148US 8,491,603 B2MacDonald Dettwiller and Associates Inc. · 2013
- Force estimation for a minimally invasive robotic surgery system1,074US 9,707,684 B2The European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), Represented By the European Commission · 2017
- Transportation apparatus and drive mechanism1,050US 7,837,425 B2Tokyo Electron Limited · 2010