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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2023
Applicant:

Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Samuel Shaw, Somerville, MA (US);

Colin Snow, Sharon, MA (US);

Scott Gilroy, Waltham, MA (US);

Logan Tutt, Cambridge, MA (US);

Kyle Edelberg, Claremont, CA (US);

Neil Neville, Waltham, MA (US);

Assignee:

Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1669 (2013.01); B25J 15/0616 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of grasping and/or placing multiple objects by a gripper of a mobile robot. The multi-grasp method includes determining one or more candidate groups of objects to grasp by the suction-based gripper of the mobile robot, each of the one or more candidate groups of objects including a plurality of objects, determining a grasp quality score for each of the one or more candidate groups of objects, and grasping, by the suction-based gripper of the mobile robot, all objects in a candidate group of objects based, at least in part, on the grasp quality score. The multi-place method includes determining an allowed width associated with the conveyor, selecting a multi-place technique based, at least in part, on the allowed width and a dimension of the multiple grasped objects, and controlling the mobile robot to place the multiple grasped objects on the conveyor based on the selected multi-place technique.


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