Clutterbot, Inc.

Justin David Hamilton

Sergio Zapata Velásquez

Kalen Fletcher Wolfe

Hugh Woodbury

Jack Alexander Bannister-Sutton

Kimberley Atwell

Chaitanya Mukeshkumar Mehta

Ryan Paul

Stephen Pitts

Bryden James Frizzell

Robot

Disclosed is a method and tidying robot system that performs it. A robot of a tidying robot system receives a starting location, a target cleaning area, and obstructions in its path navigating the target cleaning area. It determines a tidying strategy including vacuuming and obstruction handling. It executes the tidying strategy, vacuuming the target cleaning area and moving and/or avoiding obstructions, which are tidyable and/or movable objects. Where the obstruction may be picked up, the robot determines and executes a pickup strategy. Where the obstruction may be relocated but not picked up, it pushes the obstruction to a different location. Where the obstruction cannot be relocated/picked up, it alters its path to avoid the obstruction. The robot determines if the dirt collector is full, and if so, navigates to a base station configured to charge the robot and empty the dirt collector. Otherwise, it continues to execute the tidying strategy.

General purpose tidying robot

A robot is operated to navigate an environment using cameras and map the type, size and location of objects. The system determines the type, size and location of objects and classifies the objects for association with specific containers. For each category of object with a corresponding container, the robot chooses a specific object to pick up in that category, performs path planning and navigates to objects of the category, to either organize or pick up the objects. Actuated pusher arms move other objects out of the way and manipulates the target object onto the front bucket to be carried.

Clutter-clearing robotic system

Clutter-clearing robot

Growing community of inventors

Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Justin David Hamilton