US Patent Issued to Blue Hill Tech on Nov. 11 for "System and method for teaching a robot to mimic precise human motions for creation of coffee and beverages" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,077, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Blue Hill Tech Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for teaching a robot to mimic precise human motions for creation of coffee and beverages" was invented by Liu Shuo (Kirkland, Ore.), Xuchu Ding (Seattle), Meng Wang (Seattle), Yushan Chen (Seattle) and Wenbo Yang (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recording human motion performing a task with a tool and training a robot to perform the task, including the steps of performing tracker calibration without the robot present, performing teaching tool calibration with the robot present and placed at a predetermined location, a...