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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
John G. Lert, Jr., Wakefield, MA (US);
William J. Fosnight, Windham, NH (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing proxy picking of non-fungible goods within an automated storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The proxy picking system and method are configured to pick individually identified non-fungible goods according to a customer selection on an ordering screen based on measured attributes and images of the goods, the attributes selected by the customer.