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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2023
Agility Robotics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Mitchell Bernards, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Ryan Schwendeman, Albany, OR (US);
Grayson Lewis, Corvallis, OR (US);
Frankie Vazquez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Hurst, Albany, OR (US);
Mikhail Jones, Corvallis, OR (US);
Andrew Abate, Albany, OR (US);
Kevin Sweeney, Albany, OR (US);
Frederic Hook, Albany, OR (US);
Stefan Klein, Portland, OR (US);
Ryan Domres, Portland, OR (US);
Agility Robotics, Inc., Salem, OR (US);
Abstract
A system in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes a robot and a dock. The robot includes a body and a plurality of legs connected to the body through which the robot is configured to ambulate. The robot further includes a hanger carried by the body and a charge-receiving electrode at the hanger. The dock includes a hook, a charge-dispensing electrode at the hook, and a guide that urges the hanger into alignment with the hook. The system is transitionable between an undocked state and a docked state. In the undocked state, the robot and the dock are spaced apart from one another. In the docked state, the hanger is received at the hook, the dock supports at least a portion of a weight of the robot via the hook, and the charge-receiving electrode is electrically connected to the charge-dispensing electrode.