June 30, 2004 -- Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
Energid Technologies received a patent covering its robotic control software. The new patent was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and reflects Energid's continuing research and development on robotic control technologies. The work leading to this patent was supported by NASA through Johnson Space Center. The patent, No. 6,757,587, "Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Reprogramming Remote Autonomous Agents," describes an approach for configuring robotic motion control that supports virtually any type of mechanism, including those with many degrees of freedom and multiple end-effectors on a branching kinematic structure.

With Energid's invention, a user specifies the robot kinematics and desired behavior through a text-based language, and an automated process produces algorithms for setting joint positions and rates to achieve specified hand motion.