ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,714, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Robot" was invented by Takeshi Koshiishi (Saitama, Japan), Yasushi Takahashi (Saitama, Japan) and Masaki Ueyama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot that realizes human-like movements. A robot (1) comprises: a self-propelled drive unit (11); a trunk unit (12) mounted on the drive unit (11); and a head unit (14) installed above the trunk unit (12). The head unit (14) has an image capturing unit (142), and a transmission unit for transmitting an image captured by the image capturing unit (142) as a signal to a user terminal. The robot (...