Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors HIRAYAMA, Junta (Tokyo, JP); KIMURA, Kenichiro (Tokyo, JP); TOKUMOTO, Masaru (Tokyo, JP); YAMASHITA, Tomoki (Tokyo, JP), filed on December 10, 2021, was made available online on February 1, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Conventionally, a robot arm is known to which a tool is interchangeably attached to perform processing or operation on an object. For example, in the robot arm disclosed in Patent Document 1, one of multiple types of tools is attached to the robot arm depending on processing to be performed on the object. The robot arm can grasp the object by opening and closing the tool."