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US 2023/0347513 A1Published application
Palletizing boxes
AssigneeBoston Dynamics, Inc.
InventorsNeil Neville, Kevin Blankespoor, Jennifer Barry, Alexander Douglas Perkins
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Abstract
A method for palletizing by a robot includes positioning an object at an initial position adjacent to a target object location, tilting the object at an angle relative to a ground plane, shifting the object in a first direction from the initial position toward a first alignment position, shifting the object in a second direction from the first alignment position toward a second alignment position, and releasing the object from the robot to pivot the object toward the target object location.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- positioning, by a robot, an object at an initial position adjacent to a target object location;
- tilting, by the robot, the object at an angle relative to a ground plane;
- shifting, by the robot, the object in a first direction from the initial position toward a first alignment position;
- shifting, by the robot, the object in a second direction from the first alignment position toward a second alignment position;
- and
- releasing, by the robot, the object from the robot to pivot the object toward the target object location.
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A robot comprising:
- an arm comprising an end-effector configured to grasp an object;
- data processing hardware;
- and
- memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
- positioning the object at an initial position adjacent to a target object location;
- tilting the object at an angle relative to a ground plane;
- shifting the object in a first direction from the initial position toward a first alignment position;
- shifting the object in a second direction from the first alignment position toward a second alignment position;
- and
- releasing the object from the robot to pivot the object toward the target object location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.