US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on May 26 for "Object placing via a mobile robot including nudging and related technology" (Pennsylvania, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,777, issued on May 26, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Object placing via a mobile robot including nudging and related technology" was invented by Connor Kirk (Pittsburgh), Taylor Apgar (Portland, Ore.) and Ashwin Rao (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology relates to placing objects via end effectors of mobile robots using both coarse and fine manipulation processes. The method includes carrying an object while a portion of the object is disposed between opposable first and second fingers of the mobile robot. The method further...