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Article transporting robot

  • US 7,269,479 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2007
  • Issued: 09/11/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An article transporting robot for transporting an article in which an ID of the article in a living space is same but the article has different transportation methods in accordance with conditions of the article, the article transporting robot comprising:

  • a condition recognizing means for recognizing the condition of the article to be transported;

    a transportation method specifying means for specifying the transportation method of the article according to the condition of the article recognized by the condition recognizing means;

    a transporting device for transporting the article to be transported according to the transportation method specified by the transportation method specifying means; and

    a transporting information database for storing transporting information corresponding the condition and the transporting operation of the mounted or accommodated object, for every mounting or accommodating condition of the object of each article, whereinthe transporting information further includes information regarding a next condition of the article changed as a result transporting the article to a transporting place by the transporting device,the transportation method specifying means specifies the transporting information corresponding to the condition of the article with reference to the transporting information database, and after selecting the transporting information corresponding to the condition of the recognized article, further selects different information corresponding to the next condition based on the information on the next condition contained in the selected transporting information, andthe transporting device further transports the article according to the different transporting information when the different transporting information is selected.

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