US Patent Issued to FIGURE AI on Sept. 1 for "End effector of a humanoid robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,306, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FIGURE AI INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End effector of a humanoid robot" was invented by Keith Wakeham (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Stevens (San Jose, Calif.) and Jake Goldsmith (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot comprising a torso, a head coupled to the torso, an articulated arm coupled to torso, and an end effector coupled to the articulated arm and comprising a tactile sensor assembly. The tactile sensor assembly includes a bridge comprising a base section and three flexure arms, wherein each flexure arm includes a sloped section ext...