Abstract
The patent’s assignee for patent number 12019442 is AI Incorporated (Toronto, Ca nada).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic devices provide assi stance to individuals by eliminating varioustasks from an individual’s workload . For example, robotic devices have been introduced that providecleaning tasks so that an individual does not have to do so. Currently, when delivering items s uch as mailitems, packages or the like, such items must be hand delivered to ea ch location requiring physical exertionon the part of an individual. This can b e strenuous on the part of the individual picking up or deliveringitems. For ex ample, mail delivery services or package services such as UPS, FEDEX, USPS etc., requirelarge amounts of physical exertion on the part of the individual delive ring such parcels and packagesto locations such multi-unit buildings, condomini ums, apartments, homes, offices and the like. This isundesirable as the large a mounts of walking, carrying, bending may lead to injury or other consequencesan d is also very time consuming on the part of the individual. Robotic devices off er a useful solution foreliminating these tasks from an individual’s physical d emands.
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