Zimeno, Inc.

Divergent Technologies, Inc.

Motivo Engineering LLC

Praveen Varma Penmetsa

Zachary Meyer Omohundro

Kevin Robert Czinger

Matthew Michael O'Brien

Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju

Christopher Travis Whitney

Mizbauddin Mohammed

Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy

William Bradley Balzer

Daniel J Sims

Antonio Bernerd Martinez

Broc William TenHouten

John Russell Bucknell

Eahab Nagi El Naga

Cole Connelly Jacob Mishler

Michael A Desmond

John Franklin Dunham

Richard Winston Hoyle

Damon Christopher Pipenberg

Ryan Alexander Boyce

Broc William Tenhouten

Matthew M O'BRIEN

A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.

Adjustable height sensor roof

A vehicle control system may include a vehicle having a propulsion unit and a steering unit, a forward-facing camera carried by the vehicle, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising operator position identification instructions. The operator position identification instructions direct the processor to identify relative positioning of a remote operator on the ground proximate the vehicle based upon signals from the forward-facing camera; and control the propulsion unit and the steering unit of the vehicle to follow the operator based upon the relative on the ground proximate the vehicle.

Vehicle control by a remote operator

A vehicle is operable in a first mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received by an input device carried by the vehicle from an operator while being boarded on the vehicle and in a second mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received from the operator while the operator is proximate the vehicle, but no longer boarded on the vehicle. The vehicle carries a sensor configured to output a sensed input, as sensed by the sensor, from the operator proximate the vehicle, but not boarded on the vehicle. The sensed input is recognized and associated with a vehicle action and control signals are output to the vehicle based on the sensed input to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.

Tractor roof

An example battery swap system may include a battery transport. The battery transport may include a support frame, a connector coupled to the support frame and configured to connect to a powered vehicle for moving the battery transport, and a battery carriage movably coupled to the support frame and configured to horizontally carry a battery from a transport supported position to a tractor received position.

Battery swap system

Illuminated tractor

A computer implemented vehicle control method may include obtaining a sensed input from an operator remote from a vehicle, recognizing and associating the sensed input with a vehicle action and outputting control signals to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.

Connections between nodes and tubes are provided. An apparatus can include additively manufactured first and second nodes, a tube, and an interconnect connecting the tube to the first and second nodes. An apparatus can include a node having an end portion with inner and outer concentric portions forming an annular gap therebetween, and a tube having an end portion extending into the gap.

Systems and methods for joining node and tube structures

Illuminated tractor hood

Tractor front cargo bed

A method for fabricating a joint designed to connect tubes for a space frame, where a space frame may be a vehicle chassis, is provided. The method may generate joints with variable geometry and fine features which may reduce production costs, reduce production time, and generate joints configured for highly specific applications. The joint may include centering features which may create a space between a surface of the tube and a surface of the joint through which adhesive may flow.

Stress-based method for optimization of joint members within a complex structure

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Long Beach, CA, United States of America

Praveen Varma Penmetsa