Touch sensitive robotic gripper

This invention describes a robotic hand that can feel the shape of objects it touches. It uses special internal sensors, some measuring how much parts of the hand move and others measuring linear displacement, to create a detailed map of an object's surface. A computer then uses these measurements to figure out what the object is or its volume, and how to best pick it up. The claims specifically describe a system with both displacement measuring cells and linear displacement sensors working together to measure contours or volume.

Why it matters: Filed before significant advancements in AI/ML for tactile data processing and robotic manipulation, which could now make the object identification and manipulation planning more robust and effective.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedCustom displacement cells, robotic hand, complex software

3 AI reinvention directions for this patent

See all three

AI gives you a few directions you could take this. Pick one, and we check whether your version is different enough to patent, then write the filing.

Reinvent this with AI

Where this one came from

Every morning we go through millions of abandoned patents and pick out 15 worth your time. This was one of today’s.

This one

+10