A busy warehouse loading dock can be a grind.Trucks pull up.
Packages pour in.Workers have to move fast, lift heavy boxes and keep everything flowing before the next trailer arrives.
That part of the warehouse has always been one of the hardest places to automate.Every box can be a different size.
Freight can shift in transit.Labels may face the wrong way.
And when one system finishes a task, the next system still has to know what to do with the package.Now, Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot Company say they have linked their robotic systems to help solve that handoff problem.The companies announced a commercial integration that connects Pickle Robot's trailer-unloading robots with Ambi Robotics' AmbiStack pallet-building system.
In other words, one robot system unloads mixed freight from a trailer.Then a conveyor moves those cases downstream so another robotic system can scan and stack them for warehouse receiving.If this works well in large facilities, it points to a future where robots can handle more of the work that happens between a truck and a warehouse floor.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportOHIO ROBOT COP RETIRES AFTER ZERO ARRESTSAmbi Robotics and Pickle Robot Company have integrated their warehouse robotics systems to automate the flow of freight from trailers to pallets.
The companies say the setup can fit into existing warehouse operations.(Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)The setup starts at the trailer.
Pickle Robot's system unloads boxes from trailers or containers.That matters because unloading mixed freight can be exhausting work.
It also creates bottlenecks when warehouses do not have enough people on the dock.From there, the packages move by conveyor into AmbiStack.
Ambi Robotics designed AmbiStack as a multi-purpose stacking system.It reads package information and builds pallets for the next stage of the warehouse process.The key here is the handoff.
Many warehouses already use automation.However, those systems often work in separate lanes.
One...