Patent 10406696 was granted and assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on September, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A lockable connector device and system is described. An example lockable connector device includes a first spherical body connected to a first end of a shaft and a plurality of appendages connected to a second end of the shaft. The appendages partially encase a second spherical body and an actuator connected to the appendages, where the actuator is comprised of synthetic muscles that compress to lock the second spherical body.