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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2018
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Jingze Dai, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Yoshiuchi, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A robot procurement apparatus stores a deficient or surplus number of robots in each of service areas where robots provide services and performs a procurement process of determining a procurement target robot to a dispatch destination service area that is the service area to which the robot is to be dispatched based on the deficient or surplus number of robots in the dispatch destination service area and the deficient or surplus number of robots in any service area other than the dispatch destination service area. The robot procurement apparatus sets the deficient or surplus number of robots in each of the service areas based on load of the robot in the service area.