ROBOTIC INVENTORY HANDLING

• Main Authors: BLOTNICK GUY, GOREN ELRAM, GROSMAN DAVID, COHEN SHAY, GOREN EYAL, AVRAHAM ORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 26.01.2018
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

An inventory handling system (20, 150) includes multiple shelving units (22) for mounting over a horizontal floor (24). Each shelving unit contains a vertical array of shelves (28) on which containers(30) are placed. One or more floor robots (36) travel among the shelving units along first paths on...