Patent 11931903 was granted and assigned to Seiko Epson on March, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A controller for controlling a plurality of robots includes a failure prediction section configured to predict a failure time for each of the robots; and a load adjustment section configured to perform adjustment of a work load of each of the robots according to each of the predicted failure times, so that each of the robots operates until a maintenance time determined in common to each of the robots.