ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,257, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural robot" was invented by Minoru Hiraoka (Sakai, Japan), Tomoyoshi Sakano (Sakai, Japan), Jumpei Miyamoto (Sakai, Japan), Junichi Ishikawa (Sakai, Japan), Takuya Tamai (Sakai, Japan) and Shunsuke Edo (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural robot includes a machine body, a wheeled traveling device to support the machine body such that the machine body is capable of traveling, the traveling device including at least three wheels, a manipulator including an arm and a robot hand, the arm being attached to the machine body, the robot hand ...