A01D 46/30
Robotic devices for individually picking crops
A01D46/30 (Robotic devices for individually picking crops) appears on 178 US grants and 276 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01D- Granted patents
- 178
- Published applications
- 276
- Assignees
- 153
- Inventors
- 640
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 6 | 12 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13 |
| 2019 | 11 | 16 |
| 2020 | 12 | 23 |
| 2021 | 8 | 28 |
| 2022 | 24 | 45 |
| 2023 | 19 | 37 |
| 2024 | 19 | 33 |
| 2025 | 31 | 35 |
| 2026 | 20 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- End effector for harvesting plants6 Oct 2026US 12,751,369 B2Automated Harvesting Solutions, LLC
- Autonomous system for automatic picking and boxing of fruits and method of maneuvering same29 Sep 2026US 12,745,708 B2Metomotion Ltd.
- Automated harvesting of crops8 Sep 2026US 12,727,542 B2Harvest CROO, LLC
- Robot fruit picking system1 Sep 2026US 12,721,274 B2Dogtooth Technologies Limited
- Fruit perception system for robotic harvesting1 Sep 2026US 12,721,275 B2Michigan State University
- Method and device for planning trajectory of compliant collection of bunched fruit16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198424 A1Research Center of Intelligent Equipment, BAAFS
- De-leafing apparatus for removing leaves of harvestable crops16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198425 A1Automated Harvesting Solutions, LLC
- Autonomous robotic fruit harvesting vehicle9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191142 A1
- Agricultural pruning system25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174014 A1Kubota Corporation
- Method for generating cut point data, system for generating cut point data, and agricultural machine4 Jun 2026US 2026/0150787 A1Kubota Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for performing mobile robotic work operations478US 5,974,348 A1999
- Robot tractors246US 4,482,960 ADiffracto Ltd. · 1984
- Agricultural robot system and method109US 7,854,108 B2Vision Robotics Corporation · 2010
- Agricultural robot system and method89US 7,765,780 B2Vision Robotics Corporation · 2010
- Robotic fruit harvester85US 4,532,757 AMartin Marietta Corporation · 1985