US Patent Issued to Robust AI on June 9 for "Force multiplying mobile robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,696, issued on June 9, was assigned to Robust AI Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Force multiplying mobile robot" was invented by Benjie Holson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Justine Rembisz (San Carlos, Calif.), Heather Klaubert (San Jose, Calif.), Jamie Luong (San Mateo, Calif.), Anthony Jules (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Rodney Brooks (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical drive unit for a robot may be controlled by receiving from a force sensor an input message characterizing a physical force exerted on the force sensor in a first direction. A physical force input vector may be determined based on the input message and quantify...