---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001744"
title: "Telescoping robot"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:08:18.341939Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001744"
categories:
  - "robotics-automation/robot-architectures"
keywords:
  - "b25j18/025"
  - "b25j18/025"
  - "a61b1/00149"
  - "a61b1/00149"
  - "a61b1/00154"
  - "a61b1/00154"
---

# Telescoping robot

## Abstract

Apparatuses and methods for deploying and/or controlling movement of flexible tubular members such as endoscopes, using a sliding link assembly to support the flexible tubular member. For example, these apparatuses may include a base, a link assembly connected to the base and comprising: a plurality of links that are vertically adjacent to each other, in which adjacent pairs of links are each slidably coupled together by opposing flexible bands that extend around a cylindrical surface of a shuttle. A linear drive may drive extension and retraction of the links by engaging with just one shuttle of the link assembly.