Irobot Corporation

Soft Robotics, Inc.

Flir Detection, Inc.

Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc.

Irobot Defense Holdings, Inc.

Teledyne Flir Detection, Inc.

Chikyung Won

Selma Svendsen

Michael J Halloran

Stephen Albert Hickey

Deepak Ramesh Kapoor

Scott Thomas Burnett

Paul Eric Sandin

Daniel N Ozick

Mark Joseph Chiappetta

Michael T Rosenstein

Steven V Shamlian

Robert Todd Pack

Zivthan A Dubrovsky

Robert Rizzari

Tony L Campbell

Christopher John Morse

Timothy Sturtevant Farlow

Christopher M Casey

Thomas Allen

Jeffrey W Mammen

Tyson David Sawyer

Grinnell More

Andrea M Okerholm

Mark Steven Schnittman

Justin H Kearns

Orjeta Taka

John Paul Devlin

Jeffrey Curhan

David Orrin Swett

Andrew Beaulieu

David S Barrett

Andrew J Pastore

Andrew Goodale

Jed Lowry

Roger Dale Gamble

Mark Chiappetta

Bretton E Anderson

Jasper Fourways Vicenti

Alexey Zaparovanny

Geoffrey Blake Lansberry

Zivthan A C Dubrovsky

Selma Slipichevich

Kevin Michael Mcclure

Thomas L DeFazio

Misha Filippov

Cheuk Wah Wong

Rogelio Manfred Neumann

Eben Christopher Rauhut

Thomas P Allen

Andrew M Shein

Thomas L De Fazio

Felipe Bohorquez

Robert Paul Roy

Helen Greiner

Kenneth D Sebesta

Patrick Alan Hussey

Peter Lydon

Samir S Mistry

Brian C Benson

Philip N Lafountain

Sam Johnson

Perry Stoll

Jason Jeffords

Caroline Ekchian

Kim Salazar

Selma Svendson

Mikhail Fillipov

Jeffry W Mammen

Zivthan AC Dubrovsky

A soft robotic gripper having component parts capable of being assembled in the field at the terminus of an industrial robot arm for providing adaptive gripping of a product. A hub includes a pneumatic inlet leading to outlets. Finger mounts with pneumatic passages hold inflatable fingers, and tension fastener(s) secure and compress the finger mounts toward the hub by passing through the pneumatic passages and fastening under tension in a direction of the hub.

Field-assembled soft gripping for industrial and collaborative robots

Systems and methods for powering and controlling flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The unmanned aerial vehicles can be used in a networked communication system. A tether management system can be used to facilitate both mobile and static tethered operation to provide power and/or voice and data communication.

Persistent aerial communication and control system

A coverage robot including a chassis, multiple drive wheel assemblies disposed on the chassis, and a cleaning assembly carried by the chassis. Each drive wheel assembly including a drive wheel assembly housing, a wheel rotatably coupled to the housing, and a wheel drive motor carried by the drive wheel assembly housing and operable to drive the wheel. The cleaning assembly including a cleaning assembly housing, a cleaning head rotatably coupled to the cleaning assembly housing, and a cleaning drive motor carried by cleaning assembly housing and operable to drive the cleaning head. The wheel assemblies and the cleaning assembly are each separately and independently removable from respective receptacles of the chassis as complete units.

Modular robot

Systems and methods are provided for powering and controlling flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicles can be used in a networked system under common control and operation and can be used for a variety of applications. Selected embodiments can operate while tethered to a portable control system. A high speed tether management system can be used to facilitate both mobile and static tethered operation. Modular components provide for both tethered and fully autonomous flight operations.

Persistent aerial reconnaissance and communication system

Modular Robot

A cleaning robot system includes a robot and a robot maintenance station. The robot includes a chassis, a drive system configured to maneuver the robot as directed by a controller, and a cleaning assembly including a cleaning assembly housing and a driven cleaning roller. The robot maintenance station includes a station housing and a docking platform configured to support the robot when docked. A mechanical agitator engages the roller of the robot with the robot docked. The agitator includes an agitator comb having multiple teeth configured to remove accumulated debris from the roller as the agitator comb and roller are moved relative to one another. The robot maintenance station includes a collection bin arranged to receive and hold debris removed by the mechanical agitator.

Removing debris from cleaning robots

A robot system includes a mobile robot having a controller executing a control system for controlling operation of the robot, a cloud computing service in communication with the controller of the robot, and a remote computing device in communication with the cloud computing service. The remote computing device communicates with the robot through the cloud computing service.

Mobile robot system

An articulated tracked vehicle that has a main section, which includes a main frame, and a forward section. The main frame has two sides and a front end, and includes a pair of parallel main tracks. Each main track includes a flexible continuous belt coupled to a corresponding side of the main frame. The forward section includes an elongated arm. One end of the arm is pivotally coupled to the main frame near the forward end of the main frame about a transverse axis that is generally perpendicular to the sides of the main frame. The arm has a length sufficiently long to allow the forward section to extend below the main section in at least some degrees of rotation of the arm, and a length shorter than the length of the main section. The center of mass of the main section is located forward of the rearmost point reached by the end of the arm in its pivoting about the transverse axis. The main section is contained within the volume defined by the main tracks and is symmetrical about a horizontal plane, thereby allowing inverted operation of the robot.

Robotic platform

A mobile human interface robot including a drive system having at least one drive wheel driven by a corresponding drive motor, a localization system in communication with the drive system, and a power source in communication with the drive system and the localization system. The robot further including a touch response input supported above the drive system. Activation of the touch response input modifies delivery of power to the drive system to reduce a drive load of the corresponding drive motor of the at least one drive wheel white allowing continued delivery of power to the localization system.

Mobile human interface robot

A cleaning robot system including a robot and a robot maintenance station. The robot includes a robot body, a drive system, a cleaning assembly, and a cleaning bin carried by the robot body and configured to receive debris agitated by the cleaning assembly. The robot maintenance station includes a station housing configured to receive the robot for maintenance. The station housing has an evacuation passageway exposed to a top portion of the received robot. The robot maintenance station also includes an air mover in pneumatic communication with the evacuation passageway and a collection bin carried by the station housing and in pneumatic communication with the evacuation passageway. The station housing and the robot body fluidly connect the evacuation passageway to the cleaning bin of the received robot. The air mover evacuates debris held in the robot cleaning bin to the collection bin through the evacuation passageway.

A method of object detection for a mobile robot includes emitting a speckle pattern of light onto a scene about the robot while maneuvering the robot across a work surface, receiving reflections of the emitted speckle pattern off surfaces of a target object in the scene, determining a distance of each reflecting surface of the target object, constructing a three-dimensional depth map of the target object, and classifying the target object.

A robot bumper including a bumper body having a forward surface and a top surface angling away from the forward surface. The bumper body conforms to a shape of a received robot chassis. The robot bumper also includes a force absorbing layer disposed on the bumper body, a membrane switch layer comprising a plurality of electrical contacts arranged along the top surface of the bumper body, and a force transmission layer disposed between the force absorbing layer and the membrane switch layer. The force transmission layer includes a plurality of force transmitting elements configured to transmit force to the membrane switch layer.

Compliant solid-state bumper for robot

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Tewksbury, MA, United States of America

Chikyung Won