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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2020
Applicant:
Righthand Robotics, Inc., Somerville, MA (US);
Inventors:
Franz Schneider, Somerville, MA (US);
Joel Brooks, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
RightHand Robotics, Inc., Charlestown, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 15/10 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1669 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 15/10 (2013.01); B25J 19/021 (2013.01);
Abstract
Robotic picking devices and methods for performing a picking operation. The methods described herein may involve determining that a picking device is unable to grasp an item and then performing, using a perturbation mechanism, a perturbation operation to perturb the item so that the picking device is more likely to grasp the item by executing a subsequent grasp attempt.