US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on March 17 for "Soft robotics, autonomous, space inspection, crawling robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,543, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Soft robotics, autonomous, space inspection, crawling robot" was invented by David A. Barnhart (Rolling Hills, Calif.), Serena Estrada (Los Angeles), Marissa Renteria (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christian Blair (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-armed robotic translation device includes a robotic body that includes a base section and a cover section attached to the base section. A plurality of tentacles is attached to the robotic body. The plurality of tentacles are configured to apply a shear force on the target object to gri...