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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2023
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Columbia University, New York, NY (US);
Zhenjia Xu, New York, NY (US);
Cheng Chi, New York, NY (US);
Benjamin Burchfiel, Somerville, MA (US);
Eric Cousineau, Cambridge, MA (US);
Siyuan Feng, Somerville, MA (US);
Shuran Song, New York, NY (US);
TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for manipulating deformable objects using air are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for manipulating a deformable object, the system includes a first robot arm having a first gripper, a second robot arm having a second gripper, a blower robot arm having an air pump, and one or more processors programmed to control the first robot arm and the second robot arm to grasp the deformable object using the first gripper and the second gripper, respectively, and to control the blower robot arm to perform a plurality of blowing actions onto the deformable object until an objective is satisfied.