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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Douglas A. Moore, Livermore, CA (US);
Joseph M. A. Djugash, San Jose, CA (US);
Yasuhiro Ota, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shin Sano, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sarah Rosenbach, Berkeley, CA (US);
Sho Hiruta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maura Hoven, San Francisco, CA (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a visual-assist robot includes a housing defining a base portion, an imaging assembly, a motorized wheel assembly positioned at the lower surface of the base portion, a processor disposed within the housing and communicatively coupled to the imaging assembly and the motorized wheel assembly, and a non-transitory memory device disposed within the housing. The imaging assembly generates image data corresponding to an environment, and at least a portion of the imaging assembly is configured to be disposed above the upper surface of the base portion. The non-transitory memory device stores machine-readable instructions that cause the processor to provide a drive signal to the motorized wheel assembly such that the motorized wheel assembly moves the visual-assist robot to a desired location within the environment, determine objects from the image data received from the imaging assembly, and transmit message data for receipt by a user.