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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2015
Jeff Williams, El cerrito, CA (US);
Ravi Bhaskaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charlie Martin, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Jeff Williams, El cerrito, CA (US);
Ravi Bhaskaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charlie Martin, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
CODESHELF, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a system and/or a method of telepresence based inventory pick and place operations through actuator controlled robotic arms affixed to each row of a shelf. A method includes mounting a robotic arm at an end of a row of a shelf of inventory on a set of rails affixed to the row of a shelf. The robotic arm is permitted to move horizontally along the row of the shelf. The robotic arm is repositioned along the three axes using a set of actuators. A haptic motion of a human user is mirrored that is remotely using a positioning device (e.g., human may feel the feedback of the remote arm as it touches the objects). An item is placed on a counting platform in front of the robotic arm. The items are placed automatically in the designated location down through a transport means when a pick operation is completed.