ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,717, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY (Yamagata, Japan).
"Robot component module, robot" was invented by Jun Ogawa (Yonezawa, Japan), Tomoharu Mori (Yonezawa, Japan), Yosuke Watanabe (Yonezawa, Japan), Masaru Kawakami (Yonezawa, Japan) and Hidemitsu Furukawa (Yonezawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is intended to realize a modular soft robot having a high degree of freedom of movement. A voxel 10 constituting at least a portion of a robot comprises: a polyhedral-shaped casing 100 contractable according to discharge of a working fluid from an internal space thereof; and a...