Invia Robotics, Inc.

James Anderson

Lior Elazary

Randolph Charles Voorhies

Daniel Frank Parks, Ii

Joseph Traverso

Joseph Ttraverso

Disclosed is a robot for performing three-dimensional ('3D') or multi-plane sortation and/or order fulfillment. The robot may include a motorized base to move about a first plane, a lift that raises and lowers a dispensing receptacle atop the lift about a second plane, and one or more actuators that modify a position of the dispensing receptacle from an upright position to a first tilted position in which the dispensing receptacle is tilted towards a first side of the robot and to a second tilted position in which the dispensing receptacle is tilted towards an opposite second side of the robot. The robot may receive and carry items when the dispensing receptacle is in the upright position, and may dispense the items to a destination on either side of the robot by tilting the dispensing receptacle to the first tilted position or the second tilted position.

Robots for three-dimensional sortation

Disclosed are systems and methods for computing an object's weight or the quantity of items within the object based on activations of different robot actuators used in retrieving the object from a storage location. Specifically, the robot may activate one or more actuators during retrieval of an object, may obtain a measurement in response to activating a particular actuator, and may derive a weight of the object based on the measurement by converting the measurement from a first range of values that are associated with activations of the particular actuator to a second range of values that are disassociated with activations of the particular actuator. The robot may then modify its operation in response to the weight that is derived for the object matching or being mismatched to an expected or last tracked weight.

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Oak Park, CA, United States of America

James Anderson