Patent ID: 8676425

Claim:
A system for processing container-grown plants positioned in a given area, comprising: (a) a processing station positioned in the given area for processing the container-grown plants, the processing station comprising a physical structure that is configured to perform a given processing operation on the container-grown plants, wherein the physical structure is autonomous and automatically operates; and (b) one or more autonomous mobile container handling robots configured to: (i) travel to a source location in the given area and pick up a container-grown plant, (ii) transport the container-grown plant to the processing station where the given processing operation is performed on the container-grown plant, (iii) transport the container-grown plant from the processing station to a destination location in the given area, (iv) deposit the container-grown plant at the destination location, and (v) repeat (i) through (iv) for a set of container-grown plants in the source location.