US 12,391,489 B2
Interoperable robotic system to load/unload trucks and other containers
Samir Menon, Atherton, CA (US); Zhouwen Sun, Redwood City, CA (US); Robert Holmberg, Mountain View, CA (US); Michael Fisher, Palo Alto, CA (US); and David Turney, Redwood City, CA (US)
Assigned to Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed by Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/214,938.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/356,896, filed on Jun. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0002163 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B65G 43/10 (2006.01); B65G 41/00 (2006.01); B65G 41/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 43/10 (2013.01) [B65G 41/001 (2013.01); B65G 41/02 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0283 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robotic system, comprising:
a communication interface; and
a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
receive via the communication interface an indication to establish a conveyance path to convey one or more items from a source location at an originating end of the conveyance path to a destination location at a terminating end of the conveyance path;
determine programmatically a plan to arrange and configured one or more conveyance structures to provide the conveyance path; and
invoke one or more robots to position, couple as needed, and configure as needed the one or more conveyance structures to provide the conveyance path;
wherein a robot included in the one or more robots is configured to perform a conveyance path building task at least partly autonomously and the processor is configured to assign to the robot an assignment to perform the conveyance path building task at least partly autonomously.