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Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2023
Applicant:

Nimble Robotics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Simon Kalouche, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nimble Robotics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 5/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/04 (2006.01); B25J 9/14 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/00 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01); B25J 15/02 (2006.01); B25J 15/04 (2006.01); B25J 15/06 (2006.01); B25J 17/02 (2006.01); B25J 19/00 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01); B25J 19/04 (2006.01); B60M 1/30 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01); B65G 1/06 (2006.01); B65G 47/91 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1373 (2013.01); B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B25J 5/02 (2013.01); B25J 9/042 (2013.01); B25J 9/14 (2013.01); B25J 9/161 (2013.01); B25J 9/1612 (2013.01); B25J 9/162 (2013.01); B25J 9/163 (2013.01); B25J 9/1689 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 13/00 (2013.01); B25J 13/006 (2013.01); B25J 13/08 (2013.01); B25J 13/089 (2013.01); B25J 15/0061 (2013.01); B25J 15/02 (2013.01); B25J 15/0441 (2013.01); B25J 15/0616 (2013.01); B25J 15/0625 (2013.01); B25J 17/02 (2013.01); B25J 19/0025 (2013.01); B25J 19/005 (2013.01); B25J 19/02 (2013.01); B25J 19/021 (2013.01); B25J 19/04 (2013.01); B60M 1/30 (2013.01); B65G 1/0464 (2013.01); B65G 1/0478 (2013.01); B65G 1/065 (2013.01); B65G 1/1375 (2013.01); B65G 47/91 (2013.01); B65G 47/917 (2013.01); B65G 47/918 (2013.01); B65G 2203/041 (2013.01); B65G 2203/042 (2013.01); B65G 2209/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A robotic system including a storage structure provided with vertical members supporting a grid collectively defining grid spaces and a plurality of storage containers arranged in vertical stacks for storing inventory items, each one of the vertical stacks configured to be arranged within a respective one of the grid spaces. One or more load handling robots are installed upon the grid and include a lifting device extendable in a vertical direction to extract one or more storage containers from the vertical stacks and transport the extracted storage container to a station. The robotic system further includes one or more manipulator robots installed at the station and within a single grid space. The one or more manipulator robots include a picking arm provided with a pneumatic gripping tool arranged to pick an inventory item from the transported storage container and place the picked item into an order container.


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