Autonomous robotic avatars
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCHRISTOPHER M. DURHAM, INSEOK HWANG, BUMSOO KANG, JINHO LEE
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Abstract
A method controls a remote robotic avatar based on a description of a physical object. A message transmitter transmits a message to a remote robotic avatar instructing the remote robotic avatar to identify a physical object at a remote second location, where an appearance of the physical object is described in the message. The message transmitter also transmits an instruction to the remote robotic avatar to approach the physical object at the remote second location and to initiate a teleoperative session between an entity in a first location and the remote robotic avatar at the remote second location.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting, by one or more sensors, a first person approaching a first object in a first location, wherein the first object is a particular type of object;
- transmitting, by a message transmitter, a message to a remote robotic avatar instructing the remote robotic avatar to identify a second object at a second location, wherein the second object is the particular type of object of the first object, and wherein the remote robotic avatar is at the second location that is remote from the first location;
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- transmitting, by the message transmitter, an instruction to the remote robotic avatar to approach the second object at the second location and to initiate a teleoperative session between the first person in the first location and the remote robotic avatar at the second location.
A method comprising:
- transmitting, by a message transmitter, a message to a remote robotic avatar instructing the remote robotic avatar to identify a physical object at a second location, wherein a characteristic of the physical object is described in the message;
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- transmitting, by the message transmitter, an instruction to the remote robotic avatar to approach the physical object at the second location and to initiate a teleoperative session between an entity in a first location and the remote robotic avatar at the second location.
A robotic avatar comprising:
- a sensor receiver for receiving sensor readings from a set of one or more sensors at a first location, wherein the set of one or more sensors detects a first person approaching a first object in the first location, and wherein the first object is a particular type of object;
- an instruction receiver for receiving a message instructing the robotic avatar to identify a second object in a second location, wherein the second object is the particular type of object of the first object, and wherein the robotic avatar is in the second location that is remote from the first location;
- an autonomous locomotion system for approaching the second object in response to receiving the message instructing the robotic avatar to approach the second object at the second location;
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- a teleoperative device for performing a teleoperative session between the first person in the first location and the robotic avatar in the second location in response to the robotic avatar approaching the second object in the second location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.