Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“BACKGROUND ART“Conventionally, a self-propelled robot for binding reinforcing bars is known, w hich includes a wheelunit for traveling on a plurality of reinforcing bars laid in a grid pattern on an operation surface, a frameunit on which the wheel unit is mounted, a reinforcing bar binding machine holding unit on which a reinforcing bar binding machine is detachably attached, a drive unit for driving up and d own the reinforcing barbinding machine holding unit, and a control unit, and lo wers the reinforcing bar binding machine mountedon the reinforcing bar binding machine holding unit to bind the intersections of reinforcing bars with bindingwire (see the patent literature 1).”