Abstract
From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists report that a patent by the inventors Devy, Roland (Joue-les-Tours, FR), Foucault, Paul (Chinon, FR), filed on October 6, 2020, was published online on January 16, 2024. The patent’s assignee for patent number 11872697 is Fts Welding (Joue-les-Tours, France). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “By collaborative work device, it should be understood a device comprising a robot which evolves in the middle of humans. In particular, such a collaborative device can adopt an automatic mode in which it is autonomous and works without human intervention, and a manual mode in which a technician uses the device. In the manual mode, the technician can in particular collaborate with the robot, in particular to position parts before the robot acts on said parts.