US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, BASE AND POWER CITY on Sept. 8 for "Robot and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,689, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and BASE AND POWER CITY CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Robot and method of controlling the same" was invented by Donguk Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungsu Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot can include a partition wound about a partition rotation axis extending in a first direction, a plurality of body parts surrounding an accommodation space in which the partition is accommodated, and a roller part having a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted on at least some of the plurality of body parts." ...