ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,875, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Supervised autonomous grasping" was invented by Andrew James Barry (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alfred Anthony Rizzi (Waltham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, executed by data processing hardware of a robot, includes receiving a three-dimensional point cloud of sensor data for a space within an environment about the robot. The method includes receiving a selection input indicating a user-selection of a target object represented in an image corresponding to the space. The target object is for grasping by an end-effector of a r...