Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc.

Mohammadreza Yavari

Farhang Bidram

Vahid Mehrabi

Seyed Mehdi Mirsadeghi

Amirmasoud Ghasemi Toudeshki

Thomas Julian Havens

A manipulator apparatus for manipulating an article is disclosed. The apparatus includes an arm including a connecting end and a working end, an arm actuator coupled with the connecting end by an arm linkage, a lift actuator coupled with the connecting end, an end effector coupled with the working end by a rotatable connection, the end effector having an engagement orientation relative to the working end, and at least one cable coupled between the connecting end of the arm and the rotatable connection. The arm actuator is operable to cause the arm linkage to move the working end until the end effector engages an article in the engagement orientation; the lift actuator is operable to cause the connecting end to lift the working end, the end effector, and the article; and the cable is coupled to transmit movement of the connecting end to the rotatable connection to maintain the engagement orientation of the end effector.

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Burnaby, Canada

Mohammadreza Yavari