Abstract
The patent’s assignee is Pickle Robot Company (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“In the warehouse logistics industry, there is a push for the use of robotics guided by artificial intelligencealgorithms to move and sort packages. This is a continuation of a general trend of automation in industryand reflects both economic and social pressures to give physically difficult jobs to machines to performinstead of humans. Within the package handling arena there are various subcategories of automation. Thecurrent application is concerned with pick-and-place automation, in which a robot picks up a parcel orpackage and delivers it to a sort destination, for example, a cabinet with cubbies, chutes, bins, or otherreceptacle arrangements.
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