Patent 8958912 was granted and assigned to Rethink Robotics on February, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Robots may manipulate objects based on sensor input about the objects and/or the environment in conjunction with data structures representing primitive tasks and, in some embodiments, objects and/or locations associated therewith. The data structures may be created by instantiating respective prototypes during training by a human trainer.