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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2022
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Alexander Alspach, Woburn, MA (US);
Andrew M. Beaulieu, Somerville, MA (US);
Brendan Hathaway, Newton, MA (US);
Naveen Suresh Kuppuswamy, Arlington, MA (US);
Aimee S. Goncalves, Kingston, MA (US);
TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A robot end effector is contemplated. The robot end effector comprises a first deformable gripper, a second deformable gripper coupled to the first deformable gripper by a linkage, and an actuator coupled to the linkage and operable to move at least one of the first deformable gripper and the second deformable gripper to a position defining an angle between the first deformable gripper and the second deformable gripper that is greater than or equal to 130 degrees.