ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,792, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Robot, robot control method and recording medium" was invented by Hirokazu Hasegawa (Koganei, Japan), Miyuki Urano (Akiruno, Japan) and Erina Ichikawa (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot imitating a living thing, includes a body, a head connected to a front end of the body, a movable portion for moving the head relative to the body, and a controller. In a state in which the body is placed on a mounting surface, the controller executes a first control that controls the movable portion to change a distance between the front end of the body a...