ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,502, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Object manipulation" was invented by Rianna Jitosho (Stanford, Calif.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot for object manipulation may include sensors, a robot appendage, actuators configured to drive joints of the robot appendage, a planner, and a controller. Object path planning may include determining poses. Object trajectory optimization may include assigning a set of timestamps to the poses, optimizing a cost function which may be a cost function for finger sliding based on a penalty for a sliding distance, a change...