G05B 2219/40234
Snake arm, flexi-digit robotic manipulator, a hand at each end
G05B2219/40234 (Snake arm, flexi-digit robotic manipulator, a hand at each end) appears on 30 US grants and 36 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05B- Granted patents
- 30
- Published applications
- 36
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 84
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2011 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 9 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 6 | 4 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Control system for continuum robot and control method for same19 May 2026US 12,629,816 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Aerial continuum manipulator with kinematics for variable loading and minimal tendon-slacking3 Mar 2026US 12,564,943 B2The University of Hong Kong
- Continuum robot, control method of the same, and storage medium6 Jan 2026US 12,515,317 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Continuum arm robot system26 Aug 2025US 12,397,433 B2ROLLS-ROYCE plc
- Haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces26 Aug 2025US 12,397,442 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Continuum robot control system and control method, and program21 Aug 2025US 2025/0262758 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Robot arm modelling19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196359 A1ROLLS-ROYCE plc
- System and method for controlling continuum robot, and continuum robot15 May 2025US 2025/0153354 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Robotic catheter system and method of replaying targeting trajectory8 May 2025US 2025/0143812 A1Canon U.S.A., Inc.
- Control system for continuum robot and control method for same6 Jun 2024US 2024/0181630 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic arm systems174US 4,954,952 ATRW Inc. · 1990
- Modular robotic crawler68US 8,571,711 B2Raytheon Company · 2013
- Robotic arm systems51US 4,964,062 A1990
- Antenna with positionable reflector49US 5,021,798 ATRW Inc. · 1991
- Methods and systems for inspection sensor placement27US 9,149,929 B2The Boeing Company · 2015