US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 2 for "Robotic grasping via RF-visual sensing and learning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,590, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Robotic grasping via RF-visual sensing and learning" was invented by Tara Boroushaki (Cambridge, Mass.), Isaac S. Perper (Cambridge, Mass.) and Fadel Adib (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a robotic system configured to search for and retrieve RFID-tagged items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully-occluded settings. The robotic system comprises a robotic arm having a camera and antenna strapped around a portion thereof (e.g. a gripper) and a controller c...