Materials-handling system using autonomous transfer and transport vehicles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11485576
APP PUB NO 20210024288A1
SERIAL NO

17069627

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Methods and apparatus for selecting and combining items in an outbound container through the use of autonomous vehicles, each of which includes means for automatically loading and unloading a payload, to perform both transfer and transport functions in moving containers of items within a workspace via a network of roadways. Under computer control, said autonomous vehicles transfer and transport case containers of item units between incoming receiving stations, intermediate storage locations, and outgoing order-assembly stations where entire containers or individual item units are combined in the outbound container.

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  • SYMBOTIC LLC

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Lert,, Jr John G Wakefield, US 63 1228

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