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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Savioke, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Cousins, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert S. Bauer, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Adrian Canoso, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Heather Klaubert, San Jose, CA (US);
Savioke, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for a robot to autonomously interact with elevator controls comprising: while physically traversing a route to a target location within an environment, determining that the route includes navigating to a particular floor that is different than a current floor of the robot; navigating to a set of one or more elevators along the route; identifying a location of an elevator call button corresponding to the set of one or more elevators; navigating to the location of the elevator call button and pressing the elevator call button, wherein pressing the elevator call button comprises: rotating the robot in place until a vertical structure faces the elevator call button; extending or retracting the vertical structure until a button pushing element is aligned with the elevator call button; moving towards the elevator call button and causing the button pushing element to press the elevator call button.