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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2018
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Elliot W. Hawkes, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Allison M. Okamura, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph D. Greer, Portland, OR (US);
Laura H. Blumenschein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B 19/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robot for navigating an environment through growth is provided. The growing robot has a thin-walled, hollow, pressurized, compliant body that elongates the body by everting from its tip new wall material that is stored inside the body. The robot controls the shape of the body by actively controlling the relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body allowing steering.