Patent ID: 11905130
Assignee: VECNA ROBOTICS, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a control component having a computer processor and configured to be in communication with and control a suction component on a robot having only two degrees of freedom, a first device, wherein the first device has first wheels for moving in two dimensions along a floor and comprises a source container, and a second device, wherein the second device has second wheels to move in two dimensions for moving along the floor and comprises a recipient container, and wherein the control component comprises computing-readable instructions which, when executed by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform operations comprising:
causing the first device to position the source container under the suction component, the suction component having a flexible suction end and a variable suction component that can cause suction to occur within the flexible suction end upon contact with an item in the source container, wherein the contact can be non-orthogonal relative to an end of the flexible suction end and a surface of the item;
causing the suction component to retrieve the item from the source container with the flexible suction end by lowering the flexible suction end into the source container to retrieve the item to yield a retrieved item;
causing the suction component to lift vertically the retrieved item from the source container from a lower position to a higher position; and
causing the suction component to move the retrieved item horizontally from the source container to the recipient container, wherein the recipient container is moved into a position via the second device.