US 2020/0167631 A1Published application

Human-Robots: The New Specie

AssigneeAz, LLC

InventorSana Rezgui

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Abstract

Higher demands for adaptable, scalable and automated human resources, capabilities and services, such as human well-being, safety and security, universal health care system and educational institutions, are growing in our societies, leading the way to the creation of a new artificially-intelligent support system that can facilitate the lives of the many. The current invention aims to help resolve such issues by offering a relief system that uses a new robotic specie, called Human-Robots (HRs) and that are intended to improve the quality of our lives in terms of education, health-care, well-being, safety and security. The new specie may autonomously work and move in close proximities with and among HBs and within their natural environments, to share their workloads and tasks and is especially tuned to their well-beings and of their surroundings. The robotic specie is reliant on a standard reconfigurable system and platform that can take multiple shapes, be modular, incremental, scalable, mobile, intelligent, connected, social, and possibly fully-autonomous. The new HR society will form the new race of autonomous personal and public service providers and take part in our society as a new specie.

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Dependent claims

A robotic machine, called herein Human-Robots (HR), comprising:

a standard electrical/electromechanical/mechanical SW/HW system/platform that is capable of running basic and standard predefined tasks and/or functions;
a programmable and configurable platform that is driven, controlled and monitored by a single or multiple application-based GUI(s);
equipped with a single or multiple Software Development Kit (SDK) to adapt, upgrade and/or modify the HRs application-based user-interfaces (UI) or GUIs;
taking various shapes in realtime and/or offline that may be human, animal and/or machine-like;
combining various and several senses, body-parts organs, anatomies, actions, emotions, feelings and/or the like that may be human, animal and/or machine-like;
detaching and reattaching its network-connected parts;
combining various computer, cloud and/or network technologies;
being modular, expandable, re-shapable, modifiable, pliable, scalable and/or distributed;
belonging to a group and organizing in a community or society individually or in a distributed HR (DHR) manner;
being private and/or publicly accessible, secure, safe, connected, networked, communicative, social, and independent;
having some or every being/vegetation/natural qualities, features and characteristics;
operating with missing and/or additional parts, and/or change functionality mode in realtime or offline;
resembling other beings, with similar or different anatomies;
and
being employed with or without a wage, to fulfill a single or multiple job-functions individually and/or collectively with other HRs.

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An HR that is autonomous, intelligent and self-learner, comprising;

being mobile, autonomous, connected and intelligent to execute a single or a combination of various actions and tasks, and to function as a single or a combination of human-being(s) (HB), animal(s), vegetation(s), or other machine(s);
operating in full autonomy with and/or w/o outside intervention;
harvesting energy for its self-power;
communicating with and/or without connectivity (human and/or digital);
connecting and/or disconnecting freely and/or autonomously;
self-maintaining;
self-teaching, self-learning and/or the like of autonomous tasks using various machine language methods;
performing different sets of actions and functions while being guided, programmatically, and/or autonomously and following a predefined set of rules and regulations;
implementing a Finite State Machine (FSM) behavior guideline allowing an HR to take into account its previous/current/potential/predictive states, actual inputs and/or outputs, to select the most suitable action to execute;
predicting and analyzing the possible outcomes of various HR actions in realtime and historical data to decide on the most appropriate actions to take;
employing behavioral-learning (BL) technologies to purposely learn from simply watching and/or listening to others and/or the like;
being equipped with spontaneous learning (SL) (spontaneous BL) to learn spontaneously w/o being explicitly pre-programmed to do so, and by self-coding itself to add new tasks;
learning from its surroundings such as HBs, HRs, machines and/or other beings by observing their behaviors/gestures and listening to them, watching TV, listening to radio, and/or the like;
being equipped with Intuitive Genuine Intelligence (II/GI), natural intelligence (NI) that is complementary to AI;
communicating with all beings, vegetation and all machines (even the non-connected ones) using the HR-like communication skills and senses;
communicating similarly to other beings using their gestures, languages and/or the like;
communicating similarly to any other HB, with gestures, verbally and/or digitally by means of connected devices;
learning through connectivities to the internet, other HRs and/or other connected machines;
being fully-operational even when not connected to the internet, the network and/or the like, using its own on-premise intelligence;
speaking and understanding a given and/or every language and/or dialect;
and
being exclusive (no connections to the outside world) and/or inclusive (connected to the internet, other connected devices and/or the cloud to access additional digital information).

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A distributed HR system, called herein DHR, comprising:

allowing HRs and/or HR-parts to communicate, network, socialize and/or multitask privately, publicly, locally and/or remotely (out-of-range);
distributing and/or deploying HR parts (legs, brains, and/or the like) and/or multiple HRs that are part of a DHR in time and space;
collecting and analyzing information from different parts of its body and/or other HRs;
being part of a distributed group that may be local and/or remote with VPN access and/or the like;
being part of a community, workforce and/or society that may have various temporary or permanent privileges;
entering and/or exiting an HR-group (DHR) at anytime and anywhere;
scheduling and/or planning ahead an HR or a DHR connectivity times, tasks and jobs;
seeking/rejecting connectivities and/or communications with others;
forming a HR/DHR network that may be local, remote, private, public and/or hybrid, static and/or dynamic and/or a combination of the previously-mentioned network options;
equipped with various networks that may be inner (between its parts), local (within a group that is geographically local (within the range of connectivity)), remote (connected through other routers, with or w/o connectivity privileges);
serving as a mobile and reconfigurable network system that can adapt autonomously and on the fly to a population dynamics and connectivity needs;
forming an independent routed HR-networks from all other networks;
assigning various tasks to HRs to function as master/slave/task/power/router-HRs, to connect and bridge “out-of-range” HRs and/or buffer HRs' communications;
and
connecting to static or mobile networks independently of their physical network infrastructures, using router-HRs if needed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/575,696Filed 19 Sep 2019
Priority: 19 Sep 2018
Published: 28 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification30 codes

G06N 3/004
Computing arrangements based on biological models: artificial life, i.e. computing arrangements simulating life
B25J 9/0003
Program-controlled manipulators: home robots, i.e. small robots for domestic use
B25J 9/0006
Program-controlled manipulators: exoskeletons, i.e. resembling a human figure
B25J 9/0084
Program-controlled manipulators: comprising a plurality of manipulators