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

Claim 14:
15. A system comprising:
a control component having a computer processor and in communication with a suction component on a robot having only two degrees of freedom, a camera configured within the suction component such that a view is received at the camera down an axis of the suction component and facing a downward direction, a first device, wherein the first device has first wheels for moving in two dimensions along a floor and comprising a source container, 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, wherein the control component comprises computing-readable instructions which, when executed by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform operations comprising:
positioning, via the first device, 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;
retrieving, via the suction component, the item from the source container with the flexible suction end by: (1) lowering the flexible suction end into the source container, (2) providing data from the camera to the control component, and (3) receiving updated instructions from the control component to guide the flexible suction end to the item to retrieve the item and yield a retrieved item;
lifting vertically the retrieved item from the source container from a lower position to a higher position; and
moving 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.