US Patent Issued to FIGURE AI on Aug. 4 for "Dynamic task assignment amongst communicating humanoid robots" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,720, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FIGURE AI INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic task assignment amongst communicating humanoid robots" was invented by Corey Lynch (San Jose, Calif.), Toki Migimatsu (San Jose, Calif.), Yevgen Chebotar (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Ahn (San Jose, Calif.) and Ivan Babushkin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for coordinating task execution among multiple humanoid robots, comprising receiving a high-level task command, decomposing it into sub-tasks, determining a cost-optimized assignment using a cost-optimized bipedal action model (CoBAM) based on e...