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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2022
Applicant:
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew M. Beaulieu, Somerville, MA (US);
Alexander Alspach, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/12 (2006.01); B25J 9/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/12 (2013.01); B25J 9/104 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robotic system for grasping an object including a set of movable robotic fingers that may be in the form of a fin gripper or other moldable robotic finger similarly formed. The robotic fingers include a mechanism that is embedded in one or both of the fingers that allows the fingers to more firmly grasp an object. Further, an actuator may move the mechanism to further grip an object and perform an action on the object.