US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 21 for "Method and system for dexterous manipulation by a robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,119, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for dexterous manipulation by a robot" was invented by Changhao Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dexterous robot manipulation includes a first robot configured to perform real simulations. The system also includes at least one computer configured to perform a set of virtual simulations including a robot model, develop a first policy for robot maneuvering based on the set of virtual simulations, and record a trajectory of the robot model during the set of virtual simulat...