US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on May 13 for "Robots including a lift actuator and body structure for lifting objects" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,198, issued on May 13, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Robots including a lift actuator and body structure for lifting objects" was invented by Alexander Alspach (Somerville, Mass.), Andrew M. Beaulieu (Somerville, Mass.) and Aimee S. Goncalves (Kingston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robots including a lifting actuator for lifting object are disclosed. In one embodiment, a robot includes a rail system extending in a system direction, a body structure coupled to the rail system, the body structure comprising an array of flexible tactile sensors, where...