US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 3 for "Learning physical features from tactile robotic exploration" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,953, issued on March 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Learning physical features from tactile robotic exploration" was invented by Edward Adelson (Winchester, Mass.), Branden Romero (Brighton, Mass.), Filipe Fernandes Veiga (Cambridge, Mass.), Shaoxiong Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Chen Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physical features of an object from tactile robotic exploration, including by manipulation of the object with an effector having a tactile sensor that provides measurements representative of physical interaction of the effector and the object. This exploration ma...