Robot Digital Twin Patent Snapshot in 2026
Robot digital twin is an early-stage, highly fragmented field with 11 patent families spread across 14 applicants, none holding more than 2 patent records. Activity surfaced meaningfully only from 2023 onward, with China, the United States, and India as the three active jurisdictions, and manipulator/robot control (B25J) accounting for the overwhelming share of technical coverage.
A nascent field led by Moon Surgical SAS with no dominant incumbent
Moon Surgical SAS holds the top position with 2 patent records, placing it ahead of a long tail of applicants — universities, research institutes, and individual inventors — each filing a single record. The top five filers account for 40% of the ranked applicants visible in this query’ combined total, a figure that signals mild concentration at the head of the list but no entrenched leader.
The tier gap between first and second place is effectively one patent record. This near-flat distribution means no single entity has established a defensible corpus, and the field remains open to credible entry by well-resourced R&D teams.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon Surgical SAS | 2 | |
| 2 | Shandong Jianzhu University | 1 | |
| 3 | NOIDA INST OF ENG & TECH | 1 | |
| 4 | Huangshi Fengpu Technology Co., Ltd. | 1 | |
| 5 | RNS Institute of Technology | 1 | |
| 6 | Hebei University of Technology | 1 | |
| 7 | Hubei Polytechnic University | 1 |
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | K One Industries Pte Ltd | 1 | |
| 9 | Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune | 1 | |
| 10 | Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machinery Industry | 1 | |
| 11 | Zhejiang Business Technology Institute | 1 | |
| 12 | NANJING UNIV OF SCI & TECH | 1 | |
| 13 | Prasanna Kumar Mallappa | 1 | |
| 14 | Department of EEE | 1 |
Moon Surgical SAS’s position is built on surgical robotics (A61B) combined with manipulator control (B25J), differentiating it from the predominantly industrial or educational focus of Chinese university filers. This dual-axis positioning is the closest thing to a specialised niche currently staked out.
Activity in 2025–2026 is likely under-represented due to standard patent publication lag; the apparent plateau in recent years should not be read as stagnation. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Filings accelerated from 2023; manipulator control dominates the technology mix
Two structural features define this field: a sharp step-up in annual filings beginning in 2023 and a technology mix overwhelmingly anchored in the B25J manipulator/robot class, with secondary clusters in digital data processing and surgical applications.
Annual filing trend
Zero or near-zero filings were recorded from 2017 through 2022, with a clear step-up to 3 patent records each in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The single record visible in 2026 reflects incomplete publication at the time of data extraction — the 2025 and 2026 cohorts should be treated as under-counted due to publication lag.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
B25J (Manipulators & Robots) accounts for 10 of the patent records, making it the near-universal technical anchor. G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) and G06Q (Business & Admin Data Processing) each appear in 3 records, suggesting emerging interest in simulation modelling and workflow integration. A61B (Diagnosis & Surgery) appears in 2 records, driven primarily by Moon Surgical SAS. All remaining IPC classes — including A01D, A01M, B65B, G05B, G06N, G09B, H01J, and H02J — appear in only 1 record each, indicating sparse, experimental coverage.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
Virtual commissioning and simulation method for in…
An industrial robot virtual commissioning and simulation method based on digital twin, in which a digital twin model of an industrial robot is established; a kinematic model of the industrial robot is established, and a forward kinematics analysis and an inverse kinematics analysis are performed on the kinematics model; the digital twin model is associated… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 工业机器人数字孪生实时作业控制、监控与精度补偿方法 | 49 |
| 2 | Set Meal Packaging for Inflight Dining | 44 |
| 3 | 面向动态响应预测的机器人数字孪生模型建模方法及系统 | 10 |
| 4 | Co-manipulation surgical system having adaptive gr… | 9 |
| 5 | Co-manipulation surgical system for use with surgi… | 4 |
| 6 | 工业机器人数字孪生模型位姿精度补偿方法、装置和系统 | 3 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
Assignee snapshot from the current evidence set
The applicants below are visible in this query result. Because the evidence set is relatively small, read this section as a directional snapshot rather than a full competitive ranking.
Moon Surgical SAS
Moon Surgical SAS holds 2 patent records — the highest count in this corpus — with technology emphasis across A61B 34 (surgical diagnosis and guidance), B25J 9 (manipulator control), and A61B 1 (endoscopy). Its focus on co-manipulation surgical systems distinguishes it from all other filers. Momentum is marked as a new entrant, indicating recent first-time filing activity.
patent records: 2Huangshi Fengpu Technology Co., Ltd.
Huangshi Fengpu Technology Co., Ltd. holds 1 patent record, co-filed with Hubei Polytechnic University, combining B25J 9 manipulator control with G06F 17 digital data processing — a pairing consistent with industrial robot simulation modelling. As a new entrant, its trajectory depends on whether this collaboration yields further joint filings.
patent records: 1Frequently asked questions
The corpus contains 11 patent families in scope. This is a small field, and the low count reflects both the novelty of applying digital twin methodology to robotics and the likelihood that some recent filings have not yet published.
Moon Surgical SAS leads with 2 patent records — the highest count among the 14 ranked applicants. All other applicants hold a single patent record each. Moon Surgical SAS’s filings are focused on surgical co-manipulation robotics combining A61B and B25J technology classes.
China accounts for 5 patent records, the United States for 4, and India for 3. No European, Japanese, or Korean filings appear in this corpus. Chinese activity is led by university and research-institute applicants; US activity is anchored by Moon Surgical SAS.
B25J (Manipulators & Robots) is visible in with 10 patent records, making it the near-universal technical anchor. G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) and G06Q (Business & Admin Data Processing) each appear in 3 records. A61B (Diagnosis & Surgery) appears in 2 records, driven by Moon Surgical SAS.
One co-applicant relationship is on record: Huangshi Fengpu Technology Co., Ltd. and Hubei Polytechnic University jointly filed 1 patent record focused on industrial robot simulation. No other co-filing relationships or cross-border consortia appear in this corpus.
The most-cited work in this corpus addresses industrial robot real-time operation control, monitoring, and pose-accuracy compensation using a digital twin (49 citations), followed by a packaging-related patent (44 citations) and a method for modelling robot digital twin models for dynamic response prediction (10 citations). Moon Surgical SAS’s co-manipulation surgical system patents have also accumulated citations at 9 and 4 respectively.
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