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GreyOrange, a leader in AI-enabled software and robotics for fulfilment automation, has joined hands with Vicarious, an AI robotic integrator that automates complex tasks for traditional automation systems. They have launched the industry’s first and only autonomous vertical picking solution for automated pick-n-pack operations in omni-channel fulfilment.
Autonomous Vertical Picking from Vicarious interfaces smoothly into a global workflow orchestrated by GreyOrange’s GreyMatter Fulfilment Operating System (FOS), which uses advanced science to continuously evaluate order fulfilment performance and prioritise decisions and workflows. At the beginning of the process, GreyOrange’s Ranger GTP robots (Goods-To-Person) bring inventory on Mobile Stock Units (MSUs) to the pick-pack station. There, the Autonomous Vertical Picking solution perceives the size, shape and material characteristics of inventory items, including when these are loosely positioned in an unstructured fashion, eliminating the need to create fixture definitions and programming. The solution then applies the appropriate motion to approach, retrieve and place items into order boxes. Autonomous Vertical Picking can handle all kinds of inventory, including small and delicate individual items (eaches), folded stacks of apparel eaches and bagged or unbagged apparel, according to GreyOrange.
While other autonomous picking solutions perform overhead downward picking from totes holding single items, this launch marks the first solution able to pick a variety of dissimilar inventory items stored in vertical Mobile Stock Units. It works alongside people in the distribution centre, augmenting capacity while enabling the human workforce to maintain safe physical distances from each other, GreyOrange said.
“Vicarious’ computer-vision and robotics technology is a breakthrough in the ability to handle unstructured, previously hard-to-grasp items. Combined with GreyOrange’s knowhow in fulfilment workflows we can offer a game-changing solution to the industry,” Dileep George, co-founder and CTO of Vicarious said in a press release.
“This partnership expands the autonomous picking capabilities of our GreyMatter platform, enabling fulfilment centres to operate at higher throughputs without interruption. Using AI-driven software combined with smart robots can help ecommerce and omni-channel players increase the efficiency of their operations by 300 to 400 per cent while also providing safe and socially-distanced work environments for their associates. This type of fulfilment technology gives them an edge over their competition when it comes to managing pace and talent,” Akash Gupta, co-founder and CTO for GreyOrange said in a statement.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
GreyOrange, a leader in AI-enabled software and robotics for fulfilment automation, has joined hands with Vicarious, an AI robotic integrator that automates complex tasks for traditional automation systems. They have launched the industry's first and only autonomous vertical picking solution for automated pick-n-pack operations in omni-channel fulfilment.