ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,793, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ANGSA ROBOTICS GMBH (Munich).

"Robot for detecting and picking up at least one predetermined object" was invented by Karl Schulz (Munich), Bilal Tariq (Vaterstetten, Germany) and Lukas Wiesmeier (Oberhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot configured to recognize and pick up at least one predetermined object, the robot being configured in such a manner that the predetermined object is recognized and picked up in a work space below the robot. The robot may have an end effector and an adjusting unit for picking up the predetermined object. The end effector and the adjusting unit a...