MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531091736 A) filed by Narula Institute Of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, on Sept. 25, 2025, for 'automated onion seedling plantation for efficient and sustainable farming.'

Inventor(s) include Anish Ghosh; Soumyajit Roy; Aagnik Dey; Sayar Basu; Subham Das; Anushka Gayen; Sandhya Pattanayak; Sangita Roy; Kaushik Sarkar; and Abhijit Ghosh.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The seedling plantation bot is basically an autonomous agricultural bot designed to smoothen and fasten the plantation process. It incorporates the use of a robotic arm, GPS module, mobile app, microcontroller, and battery system to ensure precise and efficient plantation of seedling. The bot navigates the field using GPS module combined with grid system. While the mobile app allows the users to decide planting parameters such as grid distance and depth. It's energy efficient operation and automatic stop functionality farther optimizes the performance making it a reliable tool for modern farming."

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