US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Systems and method for picking assembly with arms and/or wheels for picking up item" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,567, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and method for picking assembly with arms and/or wheels for picking up item" was invented by Erik Herold (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a robotic picking assembly system with articulating arms and wheels driven by motors are provided. In one embodiment, the robotic picking assembly may include a picking assembly connected to a robotic arm and having two arms that each may bend and each may have a wheel at the end. Each wheel may be independently driven by a motor. The picking assembly may be positioned over an it...