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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News-From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by theinventors Geating, Joshua Timothy (A llston, MA, US); Peyton, Geoffrey (Arlington, MA, US); Thorne,Christopher Evere tt (Waltham, MA, US); Webb, Jacob (Cambridge, MA, US), filed on June 21, 2024, was made available online on October 17, 2024.The patent's assignee is Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts, United St ates).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:"A robot is generally defined as a reprogrammable and multi functional manipulator designed to move material,parts, tools, or specialized d evices through variable programmed motions for a performance of tasks.Robots ma y be manipulators that are physically anchored (e.g., industrial robotic arms), mobile robotsthat move throughout an environment (e.g., using legs, wheels, or traction-based mechanisms), or somecombination of a manipulator and a mobile ro bot. Robots are utilized in a variety of industries including,for example, manu facturing, warehouse logistics, transportation, hazardous environments, explorat ion,and healthcare."
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