Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “With advances in robot technology, the utilization of mobi le robots in various environments has been considered. A robot needs to open and close a door depending on an environment, and there has been proposed a robot t hat is capable of opening and closing a door (Non Patent Literature 1). “The robot (mobile manipulator) disclosed in Non Patent Literature 1 is configur ed to be able to execute a door opening phase and a door closing phase. In the d oor closing phase, the robot closes a door by coming around to a front face side of the door and pushing the door from the front face side. Here, a front face o f the door refers to, of two faces of the door, a face facing the robot when the door is in a closed state, and a back face refers to a rear face opposite to th e front face.”
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