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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2023
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for controlling a robotic gripper of a robotic device are provided. The method includes activating a plurality of vacuum assemblies of the robotic gripper to grasp one or more objects, disabling one or more of the plurality of vacuum assemblies having a seal quality with the one or more objects that is less than a first threshold, assigning a score to each of the one or more disabled vacuum assemblies, reactivating the one or more disabled vacuum assemblies in an order based, at least in part, on the assigned scores, and grasping the one or more objects with the robotic gripper when a grasp quality of the robotic gripper is higher than a second threshold.