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US 12,588,962 B2Granted
Medical support robot and medical robot system
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Hashimoto
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Abstract
A medical support robot includes: a storage that houses a medical instrument; at least one robotic arm including a tip including an end effector that handles the medical instrument; a traveling structure that supports the storage and the at least one robotic arm and travels; and circuitry that performs control that may comprising causing the traveling structure to move to a medical robot that is a robot that performs medical practice.
Claims13
A medical support robot for providing a support function to a medical robot that directly performs a medical practice on a medical practice target, the medical support robot comprising:
- a storage that houses a medical instrument;
- at least one robotic arm including a tip including an end effector that handles the medical instrument;
- a traveling structure that supports the storage and the at least one robotic arm and travels;
- circuitry that performs control comprising causing the traveling structure to move to the medical robot based on position information of the medical robot and position information of the medical support robot;
- and
- a wireless communicator comprising:
- a first wireless communicator that communicates with a manipulation inputter of the medical support robot through wireless communication;
- and
- a second wireless communicator that communicates with the medical robot through wireless communication, wherein
- the circuitry performs control comprising causing the robotic arm and the end effector to execute one of:
- a holding operation of causing the medical robot to hold the medical instrument in the storage;
- and a hold releasing operation of causing the medical robot to release the medical instrument held by the medical robot,
- the circuitry receives information of the specified medical robot,
- the circuitry performs control in an autonomous manipulation mode comprising executing one of:
- the holding operation;
- and the hold releasing operation, based on the information of the medical robot received from the second wireless communicator,
- the end effector holds a carrying structure on which a medical practice target person rests;
- and
- the circuitry performs control comprising causing the end effector to hold the carrying structure on which the medical practice target person is resting and causing the traveling structure to move to the medical robot.
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A medical robot system comprising:
- a medical robot of a first type comprising a robot that performs a medical practice;
- a medical support robot of a second type that supports the medical robot in performing the medical practice, the medical support robot comprising:
- a storage that houses a medical instrument;
- at least one robotic arm including a tip including an end effector that handles the medical instrument;
- a traveling structure that supports the storage and the at least one robotic arm and travels;
- circuitry that performs control comprising causing the traveling structure to move to the medical robot;
- and
- a wireless communicator comprising:
- a first wireless communicator that communicates with a manipulation inputter of the medical support robot through wireless communication;
- and
- a second wireless communicator that communicates with the medical robot through wireless communication, wherein
- the circuitry performs control comprising causing the robotic arm and the end effector to execute one of:
- a holding operation of causing the medical robot to hold the medical instrument in the storage;
- and a hold releasing operation of causing the medical robot to release the medical instrument held by the medical robot,
- the circuitry receives information of the specified medical robot,
- the circuitry performs control in an autonomous manipulation mode comprising executing one of:
- the holding operation;
- and the hold releasing operation, based on the information of the medical robot received from the second wireless communicator;
- and the manipulation inputter of the medical support robot,
- the end effector holds a carrying structure on which a medical practice target person rests;
- and
- the circuitry performs control comprising causing the end effector to hold the carrying structure on which the medical practice target person is resting and causing the traveling structure to move to the medical robot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.