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Brightpick, a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, on Tuesday announced a high addition to its current line. The properly appointed Giraffe The system is remarkable for its large and retractable platform capable of reaching up to 20 feet (6 meters) high to choose articles from the warehouse shelves. It is a novel approach for warehouses with roofs rather from the standard AMR and their human co -workers.
Giraffe achieves the feat through a telescopic arm with three overlapping segments that measure 8.5 feet when they are completely saved. Instead of constantly extending and retracting 11.5 feet at the same time, the system is designed to work together with the existing automatic robot of the Kentucky company. That AMR, which looks two supply containers, meets the largest robot halfway by extending to 11 feet.
The system resembles the telescopic warehouse robots of the London Dexory team, although the “Dexoryview” platform of the latter simply presents sensors to scan shelves. The giraffe has the task decidedly more difficult to transfer the content of the shelves.
Dexory’s main competition for high shelter warehouse inventory are new scanning companies based on drones such as Gather AI, Verity and Corvus. However, lifting and moving useful charges is too intensive in resources for quadcopters, so they will probably not violate the Giraffe grass in the short term.
A more appropriate comparison are automated storage and recovery systems offered by companies such as Autostore and Kardex. Your well -packaged grid solutions are expensive to install, difficult to repair and are generally less flexible with inventory sizes. Brightpick’s order selection solution, on the other hand, presents the AMR to sail and recover the inventory of the most traditional warehouse shelves.
Bionichive offers another solution in the form of its squid systems, which travel on slopes mounted on the shelf to recover the inventory. Amazon invested in that Israeli robotics startup in 2022, as part of its industrial innovation fund.
In the world of warehouse and fast automation logistics, there is a lot of space for a wide range of different factors and form solutions.
Brightpick is shooting a giraffe for two main clients in 2025. The Electronic Commerce retailer will use six giraffes along with 73 Self -Pickers in a Colorado installation. The McGuff Company medical supply firm is implementing four more modest giraffes and a dozen self -appokers in a warehouse in California.
Brightpick states that the jirafa/self -appoker combo allows 3 times the density of manual operations warehouse, based on humans, while doubleing its own existing solution.
