US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on July 7 for "Object climbing by legged robots using training objects" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,417, issued on July 7, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Object climbing by legged robots using training objects" was invented by Jared Di Carlo (Lincoln, Mass.), Kevin Bergamin (Waltham, Mass.), Carmine Dario Bellicoso (Boston) and Scott Kuindersma (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for climbing of objects in an environment of a robot based on sensor data. A system can obtain sensor data of the environment. For example, the system can obtain sensor data from one or more sensors of robot. The system can identify the object based on the sensor data. Further, the system...