查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – A patent application by the inventors Fofonoff, Timothy (Cambridge, MA, US); Lee, Vivian (Somerville, MA, US); Payton, Nicholas (Somerville, MA, US), filed on October 3, 2023, was made available onl ine on May 16, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D. C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Logistic operations such as those in warehouse environments often include robotic devices to gather items from a first location (e.g., a container) and place the items at a second location (e.g., on a convey or belt). Accordingly, these operations require the robotic device to first gras p the item. Existing robotic devices often include a suction device that generat es a suction force to “grasp” the item. “Existing picking devices are typically designed for a narrow range of items and those with similar features. For example, a picking device may have a suction d evice shaped to grasp boxes of a particular size. Similarly, a picking device ma y be configured to only grasp items that have a particular shape, weight, materi al, surface, etc. This limits a picking device’s utility, as it can only grasp i tems with certain characteristics.