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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2019
Built Robotics Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Liang, Fremont, CA (US);
Evan West, San Mateo, CA (US);
Lucas Bruder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gaurav Jitendra Kikani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pradeesh Suganthan, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Emerick, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ammar Kothari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan Argondizza, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sarah Thornton, Pacifica, CA (US);
Hee Gu Yea, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Pech, San Francisco, CA (US);
Built Robotics Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous earth shaping vehicle that is capable of cooperatively executing an earth shaping routine in a dig site with other earth shaping vehicles. A first earth shaping vehicle configured with a tool for excavating earth navigates to a dig location containing earth to be excavated. The first earth shaping vehicle identifies a loading location where the first vehicle may transfer earth to a second earth shaping vehicle configured with a tool for hauling earth between locations. Upon navigating to the loading location and detecting the second earth shaping vehicle at the loading location, the first earth shaping vehicle transfers earth from its excavation tool to the hauling tool of the second earth shaping vehicle.