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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Parris S. Wellman, Reading, MA (US);
Matthew David Verminski, North Andover, MA (US);
Andrew Stubbs, Waltham, MA (US);
Robert Michael Shydo, Jr., Pelham, NH (US);
Ennio Claretti, Somerville, MA (US);
Boris Aronchik, Brighton, MA (US);
John Gregory Longtine, Sudbury, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Robotic arms or manipulators can be utilized to grasp inventory items within an inventory system. Information about an item to be grasped can be detected and/or accessed from one or more databases to determine a grasping strategy for grasping the item with a robotic arm or manipulator. For example, one or more accessed databases can contain information about the item, characteristics of the item, and/or similar items, such as information indicating grasping strategies that have been successful or unsuccessful for such items in the past.