Patent ID: 11926060
Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A robot comprising a processor, one or more non-transitory storage media, a drive, an edge of the robot, wherein the non-transitory storage medium comprises computer instructions executable by the processor, the computer instructions when executed by the processor causing the robot to:
arrange itself using the drive to exert a respective transporting force on an object using the edge;
subsequently evaluate whether it satisfies a transport criterion based on observations of other robots in its vicinity;
communicate with any other robots that have arranged themselves to exert respective transporting forces on the object and determine whether all of the any other robots satisfy the transport criterion; and
if the robot and all of the any other robots satisfy the transport criterion, exert the respective transporting force on the object to transport the object towards a destination,
wherein the robot arranging itself comprises the robot positioning itself beneath the object to lift the object, and
the robot satisfies the transport criterion if at least a pre-set number of other robots are positioned within a first threshold distance from the robot.