ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,870, issued on June 17, was assigned to HAI ROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Handling robot" was invented by Jui-Chun Cheng (Guangdong, China), Shengdong Xu (Guangdong, China) and Yuqi Chen (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for retrieving an inventory item based on a handling robot, where the handling robot includes: a storage frame; and a material handling device installed on the storage frame, and including a telescopic arm and a manipulator installed to the telescopic arm; and the method for retrieving an inventory item includes: driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator to extend to a preset pos...