B25J 9/1617
Cellular, reconfigurable manipulator
Official title: {Cellular, reconfigurable manipulator, e.g. cebot}
B25J9/1617 (Cellular, reconfigurable manipulator) appears on 166 US grants and 187 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 166
- Published applications
- 187
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 325
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2016 | 3 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 | 20 |
| 2019 | 11 | 11 |
| 2020 | 8 | 24 |
| 2021 | 14 | 17 |
| 2022 | 23 | 32 |
| 2023 | 20 | 18 |
| 2024 | 26 | 8 |
| 2025 | 18 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Modular machine-automation system and client module14 Jul 2026US 12,683,831 B2Beckhoff Automation GmbH
- Machine-learned network for medical robot generation from configurable modules21 Apr 2026US 12,605,218 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface31 Mar 2026US 12,591,239 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Robotic demonstration learning3 Feb 2026US 12,539,605 B2Intrinsic Innovation LLC
- Robotic system for demiliterizing munitions23 Dec 2025US 12,502,786 B2Cybernet Systems Corporation
- Programmable micro-robot and assembly of such micro-robots forming a modular three-dimensional structure3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257346 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Electrostatically interlocking modular micro-robotic aggregate for dynamically reconfigurable structures4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151897 A1
- Systems and methods for using cross belts on robots to convey objects28 May 2026US 2026/0145319 A1Collaborative Robotics
- Systems, methods and apparatus for temperature control and active cooling of an inspection robot30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116123 A1
- Method of assigning and fixing each of logical connection sequence numbers to multiple cube devices having the same group number16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102906 A1RoboRisen Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed control and coordination of autonomous agents in a dynamic, reconfigurable system192US 6,636,781 B1University of Southern California · 2003
- Robotic toy with posable joints104US 6,454,624 B1Xerox Corporation · 2002
- Controller for inspection robot traversing an obstacle87US 11,148,292 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2021
- Robotic toy modular system with distributed program77US 6,575,802 B2Xerox Corporation · 2003
- Self reproducing fundamental fabricating machine system76US 5,764,518 A1998