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Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Vecna Robotics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Theobald, Somerville, MA (US);

Assignee:

Vecna Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1373 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0235 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided for delivering source containers, via a mobile robotic container delivery system, to a first shelf and a second shelf, and in a particular order. Each source container has a position on one of the first shelf or the second shelf. The method includes delivering recipient containers on a floor level below the first shelf, wherein each container of the recipient containers is configured on a respective mobile robot, providing instructions to a user to retrieve an item from a first respective source container on one of the first shelf or the second shelf, moving a respective first recipient container on its respective first mobile robot out from underneath the first shelf to receive the item retrieved from the respective first source container and receiving a confirmation that the item has been retrieved from the respective first source container and placed appropriately.


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