US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for locating objects with unknown properties for robotic manipulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,465, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for locating objects with unknown properties for robotic manipulation" was invented by Karl Pauwels (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ran Tao (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for object detection by a robot are provided. The method comprises analyzing using a set of trained detection models, one or more first images of an environment of the robot to detect one or more objects in the environment of the robot, generating at least one fine-tuned model by training one or more of the trained detection models in...