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Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2023
Applicant:

Accelerated Systems Inc., Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Peter Mankowski, Waterloo, CA;

Willem Jager, Cambridge, CA;

Tim Lambert, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B25J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 13/003 (2013.01); B25J 13/006 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01);
Abstract

There are provided robot swarms and methods of operating thereof. Such a swarm may include two or more robots each having a microphone, a speaker, and a communication terminal for sending or receiving an electromagnetic signal to or from a communication partner to affect electromagnetic communication with the communication partner. Upon detection of a disruption to the electromagnetic communication, a given robot of the two or more robots may switch from electromagnetic communication to acoustic communication by exchanging an acoustic signal between one of the speaker and the microphone of the given robot and one of a corresponding microphone and a corresponding speaker of a corresponding communication partner.


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