Irobot Corporation

Intouch Technologies, Inc.

Teladoc Health, Inc.

Cheuk Wah Wong

Yulun Wang

Charles Steve Jordan

Fuji Lai

James Ballantyne

Justin H Kearns

Marco Pinter

Daniel Steven Sanchez

Blair Whitney

Cody Herzog

Orjeta Taka

Timothy Sturtevant Farlow

Eben Christopher Rauhut

Kevin Patrick Hanrahan

Michael L Chan

Kelton Temby

Tim Wright

David Bjorn Roe

Timothy C Wright

Yair Lurie

Andy Young

Mei Sheng Ng

Bill Rizzi

Ramchandra Karandikar

Chikyung Won

Mark Joseph Chiappetta

Michael J Halloran

Robert Todd Pack

Michael T Rosenstein

John P O'Brien

John Cody Herzog

Steven V Shamlian

Youssef Saleh

Stephen O'Dea

Jasper Fourways Vicenti

Marcio Macedo

Milan Modh

Laura V Herlant

Peter Lydon

Brian C Benson

Craig S K Clapp

Kshitij Bichave

Deepak Sharma

Aravindh Kuppusamy

Shao Zhou

Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein. A telepresence robot includes a drive system configured to move the telepresence robot; a control system configured to control the drive system to drive the telepresence robot around a work area; an object detection system configured to determine that a first object encountered by the telepresence robot is a human; and a social path component configured to: determine a first lockout zone having a first radius around the human and a first comfort zone having a second radius around the human, the second radius being larger than the first radius; and instruct the control system to cause the telepresence robot to: avoid traveling through the first lockout zone; move at a first maximum speed within the first comfort zone; and move at a second maximum speed outside of the first comfort zone, wherein the second maximum speed is greater than the first maximum speed.

Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot

The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.

Graphical user interfaces including touchpad driving interfaces for telemedicine devices

Systems, devices, and methods for docking a mobile robot to a dock using distinct visual fiducial markers on the dock are disclosed. A mobile robot system is provided that includes a dock and a mobile cleaning robot. The dock includes a first fiducial marker in a first plane on the dock and second one or more fiducial markers in a second plane different from the first plane. The mobile cleaning robot includes a visual system to detect the first and the second one or more fiducial markers, and a controller circuit to recognize the dock, and to determine a pose or heading direction of the mobile cleaning robot based on the detected first and the second one or more fiducial markers. The mobile drive system can adjust its heading direction, and drive to the dock according to the adjusted heading direction.

Systems and methods for visual docking in an autonomous mobile robot

Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein. A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an object detection system, and a social behaviors component. The drive system is configured to move the telepresence robot. The control system is configured to control the drive system to drive the telepresence robot around a work area. The object detection system is configured to detect a human in proximity to the telepresence robot. The social behaviors component is configured to provide instructions to the control system to cause the telepresence robot to operate according to a first set of rules when a presence of one or more humans is not detected and operate according to a second set of rules when the presence of one or more humans is detected.

A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a plan view map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include a tag annotation. A tag identification system may identify tags within a predetermined range of the current position and the control system may execute an action based on an identified tag whose tag information comprises a telepresence robot action modifier. The telepresence robot may rotate an upper portion independent from a lower portion. A remote terminal may allow an operator to control the telepresence robot using any combination of control methods, including by selecting a destination in a live video feed, by selecting a destination on a plan view map, or by using a joystick or other peripheral device.

Interfacing with a mobile telepresence robot

Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for controlling a mobile cleaning robot to escape from a stuck state using a learned robot escape behavior model. The model is trained using reinforcement learning at a cloud-computing device or networked devices. A mobile cleaning robot comprises a drive system, a sensor circuit to collect sensor data associated with a detected stuck state, and a controller circuit that can receive the trained robot escape behavior model, and apply the sensor data associated with the detected stuck state to the trained robot escape behavior model to determine an escape policy. The drive system or one or more actuators of the mobile robot can remove the mobile robot from the stuck state according to the determined escape policy.

Learned escape behaviors of a mobile robot

A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include a tag annotation. A tag identification system may identify tags within a predetermined range of the current position and the control system may execute an action based on an identified tag whose tag information comprises a telepresence robot action modifier. The telepresence robot may rotate an upper portion independent from a lower portion. A remote terminal may allow an operator to control the telepresence robot using any combination of control methods, including by selecting a destination in a live video feed, by selecting a destination on a map, or by using a joystick or other peripheral device.

Time-dependent navigation of telepresence robots

The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote telepresence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.

Growing community of inventors

Bedford, MA, United States of America

Cheuk Wah Wong