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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Jaakko T. Karras, Pasadena, CA (US);
Christine Fuller, Pasadena, CA (US);
Kalind C. Carpenter, Pasadena, CA (US);
Alessandro Buscicchio, Pasadena, CA (US);
Carolyn E. Parcheta, Pasadena, CA (US);
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A repeatably reconfigurable robot, comprising at least two printed circuit board (PCB) rigid sections, at least one PCB flexible section coupled to the at least two PCB rigid sections, at least one wheel, hybrid wheel propeller, wheel and propeller, or hybrid wheel screw propeller rotatably coupled to at least one of the at least two PCB rigid sections and at least one actuator coupled to the at least two PCB rigid sections, wherein the at least one actuator folds and unfolds the repeatably reconfigurable robot.