B25J 9/1615
Characterised by special kind of manipulator
Official title: {characterised by special kind of manipulator, e.g. planar, scara, gantry, cantilever, space, closed chain, passive/active joints and tendon driven manipulators}
B25J9/1615 (Characterised by special kind of manipulator) appears on 1,228 US grants and 1,538 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 1,228
- Published applications
- 1,538
- Assignees
- 673
- Inventors
- 3,097
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2018 | 52 | 100 |
| 2019 | 54 | 151 |
| 2020 | 97 | 140 |
| 2021 | 121 | 170 |
| 2022 | 105 | 174 |
| 2023 | 131 | 149 |
| 2024 | 157 | 164 |
| 2025 | 174 | 131 |
| 2026 | 91 | 82 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Expedited robot teach-through initialization from previously trained system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,420 B2Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Humanoid transformer robots and methods of controlling the same15 Sep 2026US 12,734,685 B2Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Autonomous traverse tire changing bot, autonomous tire changing system, and method therefor15 Sep 2026US 12,734,703 B2Automated Tire, Inc.
- Methods of performing a dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operation for an ordered item and using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server15 Sep 2026US 12,738,116 B2Federal Express Corporation
- Articulating surgical instrument8 Sep 2026US 12,727,955 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- System and method for controlling a continuum robot whilst inspecting or repairing a component8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307245 A1ROLLS-ROYCE plc
- Redundant accelerometer sensor system for absolute movement and orientation determination of a robotic arm8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307263 A1Kassow Robots ApS
- Task execution method, apparatus, robot, and product8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307266 A1Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Controlling Stability of Mobile Manipulators by External Stabilizing Devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284879 A1ABB Schweiz AG
- Controlling stability of mobile manipulators by selecting of one or more stabilization adjustment methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273743 A1ABB Schweiz AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic apparatus2,381US 6,786,896 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004
- Articulating arm for positioning a tool at a location1,165US 7,171,279 B2Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited · 2007
- Systems and methods for safe compliant insertion and hybrid force/motion telemanipulation of continuum robots884US 9,539,726 B2Vanderbilt University · 2017
- Handheld robot for orthopedic surgery and control method thereof461US 9,561,082 B2National Taiwan University · 2017
- Motion scaling tele-operating system with force feedback suitable for microsurgery443US 5,382,885 AThe University of British Columbia · 1995