Humanoid robot

US8511964B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US
• The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · US

Inventors

• Douglas Martin Linn · Cave Springs, US
• Robert O. Ambrose · Houston, US
• Myron A. Diftler · Houston, US
• Scott R. Askew · Houston, US
• Robert Platt · Houston, US
• Joshua S. Mehling · League City, US
• Nicolaus Radford · Webster, US
• Phillip A. Strawser · Houston, US
• Lyndon Bridgwater · Houston, US
• Charles W. Wampler, II · Birmingham, US
• Muhammad E. Abdallah · Houston, US
• Chris A. Ihrke · Hartland, US
• Matthew J. Reiland · Oxford, US
• Adam M. Sanders · Holly, US
• David Reich · Ödernhardt, DE
• Brian Hargrave · Dallas, US
• Adam H. Parsons · Tulsa, US
• Frank Noble Permenter · Cambridge, US
• Donald R. Davis · Brighton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 20, 2013
• Expiry date: May 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20335
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A humanoid robot includes a torso, a pair of arms, two hands, a neck, and a head. The torso extends along a primary axis and presents a pair of shoulders. The pair of arms movably extend from a respective one of the pair of shoulders. Each of the arms has a plurality of arm joints. The neck movably extends from the torso along the primary axis. The neck has at least one neck joint. The head movably extends from the neck along the primary axis. The head has at least one head joint. The shoulders are canted toward one another at a shrug angle that is defined between each of the shoulders such that a workspace is defined between the shoulders.