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US 12,515,314 B2Granted
Modular robot
AssigneeEquanostic AS
InventorsOyvind Lunde Hodneland, Andreas Reason Dahl, Stig Stoa
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Abstract
A modular robot (11) has an elongated body portion (14) including at least one interchangeable module (29) having an elongated profile containing circuitry configured to implement a predetermined functionality of the robot. At least one motherboard (37) is disposed at at least one end of the robot and is configured to connect to the module circuitry.
Claims20
A modular robot comprising:
- an elongated body portion having an elongated frame supported between opposing end portions of complementary shape to upper and lower end caps each configured to accommodate opposing ends of a respective interchangeable module having an elongated profile, at least one of which module contains a custom circuit configured to implement a predetermined functionality of the module, and
- a motherboard supported within at least one of the end caps at a respective end of the robot and having connectors configured to connect to complementary connectors of the custom circuit inside the modules upon assembly of the robot;
- the motherboard including a processing unit that oversees operation of each of the custom circuits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.