ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,706, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).
"Station for swapping robot end effector and related technology" was invented by Jonathan Hurst (Albany, Ore.), Jay Jasper (Albany, Ore.) and Prasanna Velagapudi (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes a legged mobile robot and a station operably associated with one another. The mobile robot is configured to move into a docked state at the station. The station includes a support through which it carries at least a portion of a weight of the mobile robot while the mobile r...