Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Ibolya Horvath

Stephen T Campbell

Shilpi Gupta

Ryan Clarke

Robert M Whitten

Oksana Mikhailovna Kharchenko

Justina Lakinger

Peter R Wurman

Michael Cordell Mountz

Robert Raymond Ambrogi

Gaurav D Ghare

Joseph W Durham

John Joseph Enright

Timothy Aaron Bragg

Eryk Brian Nice

Michael Harrison Decker

Jonathan Harris Schechter

Bin Zhu

Eric D Anderson

Chetan Banthiya

David Prody

Abraham Cantwell

Thomas Alexandre Moulard

A management system for a heterogenous robot fleet provides standard application programmatic interfaces (APIs) for use by inventory management systems in generating complex applications, wherein calls to the API are formatted in a standard format and cause the management system to orchestrate cross-fleet operations that involve multiple different types of robots that are operating in a common facility. Also, the management system for a heterogenous robot fleet provides a unified view of the heterogenous robot fleets of the facility.

Heterogenous robot fleet manager

With respect to a transfer facility configured to optimize package transfers therethrough, a container housing packages may be delivered to a first floor of the transfer facility. The packages may be transported to consolidation stations based on destinations associated therewith. In some examples, the packages may be bound for a single destination and thus transported to a single consolidation station. In some examples, the packages may be bound for multiple destinations and thus transported to a second floor of the transfer facility for sortation. A destination and mode of transportation associated with the package may be determined at an induction station on the second floor, as well as a consolidation station associated therewith. A drive unit may insert the package into a chute for transit down a slide to the consolidation station, where it may be placed into another container for shipment to the destination via the mode of transportation.

Optimized shipment transfer

An inventory system can receive a receipt receptacle from a shipping vehicle. The receipt receptacle can be moved to a case shuttle without separating or sorting inventory items in the receipt receptacle. A mobile drive unit can move the case shuttle to a receiving station, where the receipt receptacle can be removed and where the inventory items can be stowed in a pickable inventory holder. A mobile drive unit can move the pickable inventory holder to an order-compiling station, where inventory items can be picked from the inventory holder into order receptacles. A mobile drive unit can move an order shuttle carrying order receptacles with completed orders to a shipping station, where the completed order receptacles can be transferred to a shipping vehicle.

Inventory system with efficient operator handling of inventory items

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Ibolya Horvath