Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“The robotics industry has become increasingly advanced in rec ent decades as advances in cost and precisionallows viability for an increasing number of industrial processes involving repetitive actions. Largeindustrial r obots have been in use for heavy equipment manufacturing, and typically involve fixed position, dedicated task machines that represent substantial capital inves tment. More recently, smaller, generalpurpose utility robots have emerged, which h typically have a more universal manipulation capability thatcan be applied to multiple industrial tasks by reconfiguring and reprogramming the robot with ins tructionsfor performing the particular industrial process. These general purpos e industrial or utility robotsprovide greater flexibility than larger, dedicate d robot, however require configuration and programmingfor completion of a robot ic task.”
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