Abstract
The assignee for this patent application is Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco, California, UnitedStates).Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“The present disclosure relates to vertical farming, and more particularly, to robotic systems for cultivatingand harvesting crops.“Outdoor farming generally requires a large area of land and cooperative environmental conditions.That is, a successful harvest is dependent, at least in part, upon the weather. On the other hand, indoorvertical farming offers several advantages over outdoor farming including increased space efficiency and theability to precisely control environmental conditions.