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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News-From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application bythe inventors Engler, Ingo (Soest, DE); Grune, Ludger-Josef (Hoxter, DE); Jagow, Frank (Erwitte, DE);Lebrato-Rastrojo, Miguel (Paderborn, DE); Robbecke, Thomas Albert (Erwitte, DE), filed on April 22 ,2024, was made available online on October 17, 2024.No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:"Modern workplaces for semi-automatic assembly and the asso ciated material movement are preferablydesigned as so-called collaborative work places, where a person interacts with an industrial robot in alternatingor para llel execution of work steps. In such collaborative workplaces, it must be ensur ed thatthe persons involved are not injured by colliding with the robot. This a pplies in particular if the robotmoves screws at its end effector, which can ca use serious injuries due to the typical screw geometry witha small-area tip and the forces caused by the robot.
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