US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on Dec. 16 for "Coordinating dynamic balancing with object manipulation by a robot and related technology" (Oregon, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,113, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Coordinating dynamic balancing with object manipulation by a robot and related technology" was invented by Daniel Piedrahita (Portland, Ore.), Alejandro Perez (Manchester, N.H.) and Taylor Apgar (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes retrieving, by a legged robot, an object from a pick target while the legged robot is in a first dynamic balancing state. The method further includes carrying, by the legged robot, the object toward a place target spaced apart from ...