US Patent Issued to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on Feb. 24 for "Robot and method for autonomously moving and grasping objects" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,785, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Robot and method for autonomously moving and grasping objects" was invented by Kai-Tai Song (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Wei Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot and method for autonomously moving and grasping objects are provided. The robot includes a robotic arm for grasping a target object; a mobile platform for moving the robotic arm to the target object's location; a semantic navigation system for navigating the mobile platform to the target object's location; a first camera for shooting the external ...