Summary of Innovation
Brightpick Autopicker is the only autonomous mobile robot (AMR) in the world capable of picking and consolidating orders directly in the warehouse aisles. The robot’s patented two-tote design enables it to retrieve storage totes (bins) from shelving and robotically pick individual items from those storage totes into an adjacent order tote. It does this repeatedly as it moves through the warehouse aisles until the order or batch has been fully picked. The robots use proprietary machine vision and AI to reliably pick everything from ambient and chilled groceries to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, polybagged apparel and more.
In addition to in-aisle robotic picking, Brightpick Autopicker offers Goods-to-Person picking for heavy or hard-to-pick items. The robot automatically takes those totes to a centralized Goods-to-Person station where a human picks the item. This enables companies to use the robot to maximize their labor savings without worrying about every single item being robotically pickable. The versatile Brightpick Autopicker can also be used for pallet picking, stock replenishment, dynamic slotting, order consolidation, buffering and dispatch.
Brightpick Autopicker was publicly unveiled in February 2023 and Brightpick has conducted numerous pilots in the US and EU last year. The first customer installation was completed in November 2023 with major European pharmacy chain Dr. Max. Several additional deployments are scheduled for 2024.
Innovation Statement
All existing automation for order picking and storage is based on a Goods-to-Person principle. By contrast, Brightpick Autopicker is the first mobile robot in the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in the warehouse aisles. It does not need to travel back and forth to centralized picking stations, which means faster picking and higher throughput.
Applicability
Brightpick Autopicker is a breakthrough in warehouse robotics as it is the world's first mobile robot to pick and consolidate orders directly in the aisles. This dramatically increases picking speed, throughput and labor savings compared to existing Goods-to-Person solutions.
| Posted Date | 1/22/24 |
| Contact | Andrey Bakholdin |
| Contact Email | bakholdin[at]brightpick.ai |
| Category | Best New Innovation |