US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Nov. 11 for "Human-robot collaborative flexible manufacturing system and method" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,279, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Human-robot collaborative flexible manufacturing system and method" was invented by Matthew C. Gombolay (Atlanta), Michael J. Johnson (Atlanta), Ruisen Liu (Atlanta) and Nakul Gopalan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method and system are disclosed to flexibly and adaptably manufacture and assemble a workpiece by using recordings of a user in machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms to train a robot for subsequent automated manufacture. Machine learning and artificial intelligence learning can generate libraries of generaliz...