US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on Oct. 14 for "Robotic manipulation with bimanual and nonprehensile aspects and related technology" (Pennsylvania, Oregon, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,980, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Robotic manipulation with bimanual and nonprehensile aspects and related technology" was invented by Martin Fevre (Pittsburgh), Tyler Morrison (Pittsburgh), Taylor Apgar (Portland, Ore.) and Alejandro Perez (Manchester, N.H.).

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 moving a robot toward a shelf carrying a tote. The method further includes nonprehensilely tilting the tote and nonprehensilely pulling the tote toward a body of the robot. The tilting and pulling occur while the tote i...