A micro-fulfillment center fulfills orders for goods including both in-store picking of goods and online ordering of goods. Orders are fulfilled using both a picker to goods (P2G) model and an automated goods to picker (G2P) model. In examples, goods are replenished to the automated G2P system from store shelves which also serve the P2G model.
An order fulfillment system includes a storage structure for storing totes, workstations for processing customer orders and a staging and sequencing buffer having staging locations for storing the totes. The staging and sequencing buffer provides a buffer for totes as mobile robots transfer totes from the storage structure and to the one or more workstations.
An automated storage and retrieval facility includes an automated decant system for decanting cases of eaches received from manufacturers or others. The automated decant system includes a decant workstation which receives the cases of eaches, cuts and removes the packaging of the cases. Once case packaging has been removed, the decant workstation separates and organizes the eaches, and drops them into totes waiting beneath the workstation.
B65B 35/32 - Disposition et alimentation des objets en groupes par pesanteur
B65B 35/40 - Disposition et alimentation des objets en groupes par poussoirs oscillants ou à mouvement alternatif
B65B 35/58 - Retournage des objets par des moyens d'action positive, p.ex. pour présenter les parties étiquetées vers le haut
B65B 5/10 - Remplissage des réceptacles ou récipients, progressivement ou par stades successifs, en introduisant successivement les objets
B65B 5/06 - Emballage de groupes d'objets, chaque groupe étant traité comme un seul objet
B65B 39/00 - Ajutages, entonnoirs ou guides pour introduire des objets ou matériaux dans les réceptacles ou les emballages
B65B 43/58 - Moyens pour tenir les réceptacles ou les récipients pendant le remplissage avec déplacement par positions successives pour présenter le réceptacle ou récipient en vue de recevoir des apports successifs du contenu le mouvement étant vertical
B65B 57/16 - Dispositifs de commande automatique, de vérification, d'alarme ou de sécurité sensibles à l'absence, à la présence, à l'alimentation anormale ou au mauvais positionnement des objets ou matériaux à emballer et fonctionnant pour arrêter ou commander la vitesse de la machine entière
B65B 69/00 - Déballage des objets ou matériaux non prévu ailleurs
B26D 7/06 - Dispositions pour faire avancer ou évacuer les pièces autres que les feuilles, les bandes ou les filaments
B26D 1/04 - Coupe d'une pièce caractérisée par la nature ou par le mouvement de l'élément coupant; Appareils ou machines à cet effet; Eléments coupants à cet effet comportant un élément qui ne suit pas le mouvement de la pièce ayant un élément coupant se déplaçant linéairement
B26D 5/00 - Dispositions pour manœuvrer et commander les machines ou les dispositifs de coupe, découpage, poinçonnage, perforation ou séparation autrement que par coupe
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21 - Ustensiles, récipients, matériaux pour le ménage; verre; porcelaine; faience
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Industrial robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Computer hardware and downloadable computer software for controlling and managing automated storage and retrieval facilities, and for controlling and managing mobile robots for use in such systems; laboratory robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Pens, stickers Mugs Storage and delivery of goods at an automated storage and retrieval of goods facility
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
16 - Papier, carton et produits en ces matières
21 - Ustensiles, récipients, matériaux pour le ménage; verre; porcelaine; faience
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Industrial robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Computer hardware and downloadable computer software for controlling and managing automated storage and retrieval facilities, and for controlling and managing mobile robots for use in such systems; laboratory robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Pens, stickers Mugs Storage and delivery of goods at an automated storage and retrieval of goods facility
6.
TRANSPORT RACK AND TRANSPORT RACK DOCKING INTERFACE
An automated storage and retrieval facility is disclosed including a storage structure, mobile robots and mobile racks for use in inventory management, order fulfillment and automation-based capacity planning. In examples, a rack or racking system may be used to transport containers, for example, totes. The rack is configured to attach to a load/unload docking station at the storage structure that enables the mobile robots to load totes onto the rack and/or unload totes from the rack. The racks can further be loaded onto a truck that transports the totes between facilities.
B65G 1/06 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des moyens pour que les objets se présentent à l'enlèvement dans des positions ou à des niveaux prédéterminés
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
B65G 1/10 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec supports relativement mobiles pour faciliter l'insertion ou l'enlèvement des objets
7.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING TRANSPORT OF ITEMS BETWEEN A STORE AND A CUSTOMER VIA A CUSTOMER ACCESS PORTAL
A customer access system includes one or more customer access portals to dispense ordered items to customers and/or receive returned items from customers. A tote transfer system transports one or more totes to carry the ordered items and the returned items to and from the customer access portals. The customer access system may also include a storage structure to temporarily store one or more totes to provide a buffer to reduce or mitigate customer wait times at the customer access portal and/or to more efficiently disposition items by consolidating returned items. The storage structure may further allow "asynchronous dispositioning" of returned items where the retrieval of a returned item from the customer and the dispositioning of the returned item occurs at different times. In some implementations, the customer access portal includes one or more drawers to exchange of items with a customer in a safe and efficient manner.
B65G 1/12 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec supports ou porte-objets mobiles en circuit fermé pour faciliter l'insertion ou l'enlèvement des objets
G06Q 20/20 - Systèmes de réseaux présents sur les points de vente
8.
HIGH DENSITY MICRO FULFILLMENT CENTER "HD-MFC" WITH NIGHTLY G2P STORAGE BATCH PICK REPLENISHMENT FROM STORE FLOOR AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME
A micro-fulfillment center fulfills orders for goods including both in-store picking of goods and online ordering of goods. Orders are fulfilled using both a picker to goods (P2G) model and an automated goods to picker (G2P) model. In examples, goods are replenished to the automated G2P system from store shelves which also serve the P2G model.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projets; Planification d’entreprise ou d’organisation; Modélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
G06Q 10/08 - Logistique, p.ex. entreposage, chargement ou distribution; Gestion d’inventaires ou de stocks
A rack or racking system is disclosed for use in inventory management, order fulfillment and automation-based capacity planning. The racking system includes expandable and collapsible racks used to transport containers, for example, totes, which in the expanded configuration can attach to a load/unload fixture that enables bots to load totes onto the racks and/or unload totes from the racks, and in the collapsed configuration can be loaded onto a truck that transports the totes between facilities.
An automated order fulfillment system is disclosed having different temperature zones and robots and containers capable of and/or configured to work in these different temperature zones. Containers include insulated wall panels and a thermal insert which may be chilled to maintain a temperature within the container below ambient temperature. Structure within a storage location for the containers may be used to open and close the containers to facilitate cooling of the thermal insert.
F25D 13/06 - Dispositifs fixes associés à des machines frigorifiques, p.ex. chambres froides avec transporteurs faisant traverser la chambre de refroidissement aux produits à refroidir
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
An order fulfillment system is disclosed including a multi-level tote storage structure, one or more autonomous mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote; one or more workstations configured to accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a "put" location, wherein the autonomous mobile robots are configured to move from level to level in the order fulfillment apparatus.
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
12.
SYSTEM HAVING A WORKSTATION WITH A TOTE RETENTION AND RELEASE MECHANISM
An automatic storage and retrieval system (10) is disclosed including storage positions (12) for storing containers, a portal (26, 28) and mobile robots (20) for transferring the containers between the storage positions and portal. The portal may include a bot-access side where the mobile robots transfer containers to and from the portal, and a user-access side where users remove items from the containers.
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
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39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Industrial robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Computer hardware and downloadable computer software for controlling and managing Automated Storage and Retrieval Facilities, and for controlling and managing mobile robots for use in such systems; laboratory robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Automated storage and retrieval of goods at storage and retrieval facilities
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Industrial robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Computer hardware and downloadable computer software for controlling and managing Automated Storage and Retrieval Facilities, and for controlling and managing mobile robots for use in such systems; laboratory robots for use in automated storage and retrieval systems Automated storage and retrieval of goods at storage and retrieval facilities
An apparatus is disclosed including a robotic system having a robotic picking workstation, tote storage and retrieval and transit decks. The system has bots that autonomously transport totes from the storage and retrieval system to the robotic picking workstation via the transit decks. The robotic picking workstation may have a picking lane where a robotic handler transports eaches from totes on the bots to order totes in the workstation. The robotic picking workstation further has a queuing buffer where bots are cued for the picking lane.
G06Q 10/08 - Logistique, p.ex. entreposage, chargement ou distribution; Gestion d’inventaires ou de stocks
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
An automated order fulfillment system and mobile robot (10) are disclosed, where the mobile robot includes a compliant drive for moving between levels of a multilevel storage structure (80).
B61C 11/04 - Locomotives ou automotrices caractérisées par la manière dont l'effort de traction est appliqué; Disposition des organes de roulement autres que les roues motrices normales l'effort de traction étant appliqué à des crémaillères
An automated order fulfillment system is disclosed having different temperature zones and robots and containers capable of and/or configured to work in these different temperature zones.
An automated decant system is disclosed for processing pallets of cased goods received at a facility, extracting packaging for the cases and transferring eaches within the cases to totes, possibly organized by SKU in sub-totes within the tote.
B65G 47/08 - Dispositifs pour alimenter en objets ou matériaux les transporteurs pour alimenter en objets à partir d'un seul groupe d'objets rangés en ordre, p.ex. pièces à usiner en magasin espaçant ou groupant les objets pendant l'alimentation
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
An automated material handling and automated order
fulfillment system comprised of mobile robots, inventory
stations, and workstations for fulfillment of inventory
orders; robots for material-handling and automating
fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial
robots; automated industrial systems comprising mobile
robots, inventory stations, workstations and computer
hardware for fulfillment of inventory orders; industrial
robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory
stations, and workstations for fulfillment of inventory
orders. An automated material handling and automated order
fulfillment system comprised of computer hardware and
computer software for robot management and supply-chain
product inventory management, computerized inventory
stations, and computerized workstations, together providing
automated supply-chain product storage, delivery and
replenishment. Services related to automated material handling and
automated order fulfillment, namely, inventory replenishing
and resetting. Services related to automated material handling and
automated order fulfillment, namely, product storage and
product delivery.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
An automated material handling and automated order
fulfillment system comprised of mobile robots, inventory
stations, and workstations for fulfillment of inventory
orders; robots for material-handling and automating
fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial
robots; automated industrial systems comprising mobile
robots, inventory stations, workstations and computer
hardware for fulfillment of inventory orders; industrial
robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory
stations, and workstations for fulfillment of inventory
orders. An automated material handling and automated order
fulfillment system comprised of computer hardware and
computer software for robot management and supply-chain
product inventory management, computerized inventory
stations, and computerized workstations, together providing
automated supply-chain product storage, delivery and
replenishment. Services related to automated material handling and
automated order fulfillment, namely, inventory replenishing
and resetting. Services related to automated material handling and
automated order fulfillment, namely, product storage and
product delivery.
42 - Services scientifiques, technologiques et industriels, recherche et conception
Produits et services
Providing services and assistance associated with setting up a retail store including hand-picked items and items retrieved by an automated storage and retrieval system, namely, planning and design of retail premises, planning and layout design services for interior space of retail business establishments; automated retail system comprising the provision of temporary use of on-line non-downloadable computer software for processing and fulfilling orders at a retail store
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of
orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer
hardware sold as an integral component of automated
industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots,
inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of
orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems
comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and
workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail
distribution. Automated material-handling systems comprising computer
software for managing robotic systems for processing and
fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; computer
hardware for use with automated robotic systems.
23.
AUTOMATED VERTICAL FARMING SYSTEM USING MOBILE ROBOTS
A vertical farming system is disclosed including a storage structure having racks of storage shelves for housing plant-carrying containers. Mobile robots travel around the racks to transfer containers of plants to and from the storage shelves. Under direction of a central control system, one or more mobile robots may transport a container from a storage location to a workstation. Once there, care may be provided for the plant, including water and/or other nutrients, and data may be gathered on the plant. This may be done by an owner of the plant, or by an automated service robot positioned at the workstation. Data gathered on the plant, including for example photographs, may be sent by email or other communications schemes to an owner of the plant.
An automated system structure (102) is disclosed which may be quickly and efficiently assembled using a number of storage modules (110). Storage modules (110) may be comprised of a pair of shelf modules (126, 128), each comprising a number of defined storage locations (106) for storing totes, cartons, trays or other containers. The shelf modules (126, 128) may themselves be modular units comprising a number of horizontal storage levels (130) affixed to a pair of vertical support assemblies at each end of the shelf modules. The pair of shelf modules (126, 128) may be accurately spaced from each other by mounting the shelf modules to tie beams (122) at the bottom and tie plates (174) at the top.
An opportunistic rail charging system is disclosed for recharging power supplies on mobile robots transporting goods within an automated order fulfillment system. Individual chargers may be incorporated into each mobile robot for converting a facility line voltage from the charge rail to a voltage for which the rechargeable power supplies on each mobile robot are rated.
H02J 7/00 - Circuits pour la charge ou la dépolarisation des batteries ou pour alimenter des charges par des batteries
B65G 1/06 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des moyens pour que les objets se présentent à l'enlèvement dans des positions ou à des niveaux prédéterminés
26.
CONFIGURABLE SERVICE ISOLATION ZONES FOR SERVICE OF EQUIPMENT EMPLOYING MOBILE ROBOTS
A safety system is disclosed for failsafe servicing of areas within an order fulfillment facility. During normal operation, a number of battery-powered robots receive wireless instructions from a management control system (MCS) to transfer items to/from workstations or storage shelves in a multi-level storage structure. The order fulfillment facility may be divided into dynamically configurable service zones. When service is required in a service zone, different safety protocols may be employed based on a determination as to the priority level of service required and/or the estimated length of time service will take. One safety protocol involves physically blocking all access points to a service area with mechanical guards, so that order fulfillment operations may be proceed around the service zone while service is performed.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
(1) Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution
(2) Automated material-handling systems comprising computer software for managing robotic systems for processing and fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; computer hardware for use with automated robotic systems
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
(1) Robots for automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution, and for restocking and resupplying of inventory at retail distribution centres; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution.
(2) An automated order fulfillment system including automated supply-chain product storage, delivery and replenishment; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution. (1) Services related to automated order fulfillment including product storage, delivery and replenishment.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
(1) Robots for automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution, and for restocking and resupplying of inventory at retail distribution centres; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution.
(2) An automated order fulfillment system including automated supply-chain product storage, delivery and replenishment; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution. (1) Services related to automated order fulfillment including product storage, delivery and replenishment.
A universal gripper (110) is disclosed for transferring totes (100) and sub-totes (102), for example in an order fulfillment center. The universal gripper includes adjustable tines (112) and pins (132) capable of being positioned to engage within slots (120, 140) in the different configurations of totes (100) and sub-totes (102).
B66C 1/66 - Eléments ou dispositifs de prise de la charge adjoints aux mécanismes de levage, de descente ou de halage, ou adaptés pour être utilisés avec ces mécanismes et transmettant les efforts à des articles ou à des groupes d'articles par moyens mécaniques comportant des organes de saisie ayant une forme complémentaire de celle des objets à manipuler s'engageant dans des trous, des évidements ou des renflements spécialement aménagés sur les objets pour en permettre la prise
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
An automated self-service store is disclosed including a shopper accessible level having inventory for selection by a shopper, and an item storage and replenishment area for storing inventory. The self-service store further includes mobile robots for replenishing inventory at the shopper accessible level from the item storage and replenishment area.
A workstation is disclosed for transferring objects between containers such as product and order totes in an order fulfillment system. The workstation may include an object pick system, for example including a measuring array or a machine vision system, which directs and monitors the transfer of objects between the containers.
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution AN AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM COMPRISED OF COMPUTER HARDWARE AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR ROBOT MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY-CHAIN PRODUCT INVENTORY MANAGEMENT, COMPUTERIZED INVENTORY STATIONS, AND COMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS, TOGETHER PROVIDING AUTOMATED SUPPLY-CHAIN PRODUCT STORAGE, DELIVERY AND REPLENISHMENT SERVICES RELATED TO AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT, NAMELY, INVENTORY REPLENISHING AND RESETTING SERVICES RELATED TO AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT, NAMELY, PRODUCT STORAGE AND PRODUCT DELIVERY
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
35 - Publicité; Affaires commerciales
39 - Services de transport, emballage et entreposage; organisation de voyages
Produits et services
Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution AN AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM COMPRISED OF COMPUTER HARDWARE AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR ROBOT MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY-CHAIN PRODUCT INVENTORY MANAGEMENT, COMPUTERIZED INVENTORY STATIONS, AND COMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS, TOGETHER PROVIDING AUTOMATED SUPPLY-CHAIN PRODUCT STORAGE, DELIVERY AND REPLENISHMENT SERVICES RELATED TO AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT, NAMELY, INVENTORY REPLENISHING AND RESETTING SERVICES RELATED TO AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND AUTOMATED ORDER FULFILLMENT, NAMELY, PRODUCT STORAGE AND PRODUCT DELIVERY
A system comprising a fully automated supply chain, in combination with tracking technology and the unified commerce engine (UCE). Such a system enables the exact location of every item (or each) to be tracked from the manufacturer's facility to a customer's bag. In accordance with one example, the supply chain comprises an order fulfillment system having a regional distribution center with RDC robotic automation configured to accept one or more incoming pallets, each pallet having a plurality of common cases of goods with each case of goods containing a plurality of common eaches; the RDC robotic automation further configured to remove and store the common cases of goods; the RDC robotic automation further configured to provide one or more outgoing pallets in response to a distribution center order, each outgoing pallet having a plurality of mixed cases of goods; a market distribution center having MDC robotic automation configured to accept one or more of the outgoing pallets, the MDC robotic automation further configured to remove mixed cases of goods from the one or more outgoing pallets; the MDC robotic automation further configured to remove and store eaches from each of the mixed cases of goods in an MDC storage system, the MDC robotic automation further configured to selectively retrieve eaches from the MDC storage system and fill order totes with mixed each subtotes in response to a market order. The MDC robotic automation further configured to fulfill the market order with a plurality of common or different order totes and subtotes that flexibly match the sales velocity of the market.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projets; Planification d’entreprise ou d’organisation; Modélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
G06Q 10/08 - Logistique, p.ex. entreposage, chargement ou distribution; Gestion d’inventaires ou de stocks
A collaborative mobile workstation system enables users of the workstations to position and reposition their own workstation in a few minutes or less, without requiring substantial disassembly and reassembly. The system enables arrangements that promote collaboration but that can also include open workstations and semi-private workstation formations with four or more substantive walls around a work surface. Each of the mobile workstations within the system is interchangeable with one another.
A system and method for providing proxy picking of non-fungible goods within an automated storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The proxy picking system and method are configured to pick individually identified non-fungible goods according to a customer selection on an ordering screen based on measured attributes and images of the goods, the attributes selected by the customer.
A system and method are disclosed relating to an automated store or system including an automated fulfillment section having a storage structure for storing fungible and/or non-fungible goods. The fungible and/or non-fungible goods may be retrieved from storage in response to a customer order. The system and method of the present technology allows retrieved fungible and/or non-fungible goods to be sorted and packed in accordance with stored customer preferences.
Transfer and transport containers of metal for transferring
inventory items between storage shelves and transport
robots. Transfer and transport containers, not of metal, for
transferring inventory items between storage shelves and
transport robots.
40.
AUTOMATED STORE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE AUTOMATED MOBILE ROBOTS
A system and method for managing a plurality of automated mobile robots within automated mobile robot storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The same mobile robot is enabled to move horizontally and vertically in a multi-level storage structure (230), operate in an order fulfillment mode retrieving order totes from an automated fulfillment section (204) and delivering the order totes to the delivery section (208), operate in a replenishment section (206) in a replenishment mode receiving eaches of goods and depositing the eaches of goods in designated storage totes, and operate in a delivery mode receiving delivery bundles and transporting the delivery bundles to designated locations at the transfer station.
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
G06Q 10/08 - Logistique, p.ex. entreposage, chargement ou distribution; Gestion d’inventaires ou de stocks
41.
AUTOMATED RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A system and method are disclosed for supplying one or more goods to a physical store location. The goods may be received at a distribution center (DC). At the DC, the goods may be decanted from their shipping containers into one or more sub-totes, which are contained within one or more product totes. The sub-totes may be transferred from the one or more product totes to one or more order totes based on a velocity of movement of the plurality of goods at the physical store location.
B65G 1/137 - Dispositifs d'emmagasinage mécaniques avec des aménagements ou des moyens de commande automatique pour choisir les objets qui doivent être enlevés
A combination automated-service and self-service store for implementation at brick-and-mortar retail locations is provided. The store and corresponding method of implementation is an automated-service model in which robots, deployed at the brick-and-mortar location, fill orders for fungible goods placed by customers either online or in-store. The store also includes a shopping section where customers can select/order items and/or personally select non-fungible goods. The store includes a shopping section for non-fungible goods that customers prefer to pick out by hand and a back end automated order fulfillment section for other goods (e.g., fungible goods, dry goods, etc.). The two sets of goods are merged to a delivery bundle and delivered together for pickup by the customer. The combination automated-service and self-service store combines the convenience of online shopping and self-service shopping using an unconventional approach that reduces costs for the retailer and simultaneously increases customer satisfaction.
An order fulfillment system is disclosed including a multi-level tote storage structure, one or more autonomous mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote; one or more workstations configured to accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a "put" location, wherein the autonomous mobile robots are configured to move from level to level in the order fulfillment apparatus.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Automated retail system comprising computer software and hardware for processing and fulfilling orders at a retail store; interactive computer kiosks for use in providing directory and shopping assistance, and conducting monetary transactions a retail store; computer hardware for use with industrial equipment in the nature of mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations, for processing and fulfillment of orders at a retail store.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution. Automated material-handling systems comprising computer software for managing robotic systems for processing and fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; computer hardware for use with automated robotic systems.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
Produits et services
Robots for material-handling and automating fulfillment of orders for industrial purposes; industrial robots; computer hardware sold as an integral component of automated industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; industrial robotic systems comprising mobile robots, inventory stations, and workstations for fulfillment of orders for retail distribution Automated material-handling systems comprising computer software for managing robotic systems for processing and fulfillment of orders for retail distribution; computer hardware for use with automated robotic systems
