US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Dec. 30 for "Self-propelled robot and article delivery system provided with the self-propelled robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,970, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Self-propelled robot and article delivery system provided with the self-propelled robot" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled robot includes a travel cart, a base part provided to an upper part of the travel cart and swivelable on a first rotation axis extending vertically, and a pair of robotic arms coupled to the base part at base-end parts, respectively. Each of the pair of robotic arms has a first link and a second link coupled at a base-end part to a tip-end part of the first link via a joint p...