Sri International

Google Inc.

Willow Garage, LLC

X Development LLC

Scott E Stanford

Ronald E Pelrine

Roy D Kornbluh

Harsha Prahlad

Joseph S Eckerle

Hideaki Matsui

Matei Ciocarlie

Jonathan R Heim

Keun Young Park

Seajin Oh

Guy Noren

Bryan Chavez

Thomas P Low

Qibing Pei

Patrick Denis Lincoln

Arthur Kenzo Debaigue

Seiki Chiba

Marc D Strauss

Richard P Heydt

Keun-Young Park

Jon Heim

David Youmans

Angad Sidhu

Vitalii Tomkiv

Pablo E Garcia

Sunity Kumar Sharma

Annjoe Wong-Foy

Neville A Bonwit

Donald E Czyzyk

Roth Kyle Wiedrick

Jospeh S Eckerle

Roy David Kornbluh

Richard Heydt

Arrangements herein are directed to pin state detection systems and arrangements for using such systems. A pin detection system can include a pin. The pin can be in one of multiple states, such as a depressed state and an undepressed state. The system can include a transmit coil and a receive coil that encircles the pin. The system can also include a processing system that causes a transmit signal to be transmitted to the transmit coil. The processing system can analyze a signal received from the receive coil to determine a state of the pin.

Spring-loaded pin status detection

A tendon-driven robotic gripper is disclosed for performing fingertip and enveloping grasps. One embodiment comprises two fingers, each with two links, and is actuated using a single active tendon. During unobstructed closing, the distal links remain parallel, creating exact fingertip grasps. Conversely, if the proximal links are stopped by contact with an object, the distal links start flexing, creating a stable enveloping grasp. The route of the active tendon and the parameters of the springs providing passive extension forces are optimized in order to achieve this behavior. An additional passive tendon is disclosed that may be used as a constraint preventing the gripper from entering undesirable parts of the joint workspace. A method for optimizing the dimensions of the links in order to achieve enveloping grasps of a large range of objects is disclosed and applied to a set of common household objects.

Kinetic and dimensional optimization for a tendon-driven gripper

Set forth is a motorized computing device that selectively navigates to a user according content of a spoken utterance directed at the motorized computing device. The motorized computing device can modify operations of one or more motors of the motorized computing device according to whether the user provided a spoken utterance while the one or more motors are operating. The motorized computing device can render content according to interactions between the user and an automated assistant. For instance, when automated assistant is requested to provide graphical content for the user, the motorized computing device can navigate to the user in order to present the content the user. However, in some implementations, when the user requests audio content, the motorized computing device can bypass navigating to the user when the motorized computing device is within a distance from the user for audibly rendering the audio content.

Motorized computing device that autonomously adjusts device location and/or orientation of interfaces according to automated assistant requests

Display screen with transitional graphical user interface

Robot with a transitional image on a screen display

Robot

A robotic device is provided. The robotic device includes a first detachable digit, including a first connector piece. The robotic device also includes a digit mounting apparatus, including a first pivot joint and a second connector piece coupled to the first pivot joint, where the second connector piece is configured to mate with the first connector piece of the first detachable digit. The robotic device also includes an actuator configured to pivot the first pivot joint about a first axis to cause the second connector piece of the digit mounting apparatus to mate with the first connector piece of the first detachable digit to attach the first detachable digit to the digit mounting apparatus.

Automated digit interchange

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Scott E Stanford