In our showroom, we present exciting and successfully implemented projects with autonomous mobile robots (also known as automated guided vehicles). These success stories demonstrate the infinite number of possible applications for AMR solutions in production, warehouse environments, e-commerce and industrial operations. From harvest helpers in greenhouses to assistants in order picking: it is amazing to see where and with which tasks our robots can help and optimise processes.
Up to 1,200 kg payload
Skilled personnel are in short supply in many areas – forklift truck drivers, for example, are in ever greater demand. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack helps companies to compensate for the shortage. It moves effortlessly through warehouse and production environments, fully autonomously and with extensive safety features. In doing so, it loads pallets weighing up to 1,200 kg.
Improve order picking
Two things are particularly important in fulfilment: Speed and accuracy. The compilation of orders is where most errors sometimes occur, customers send parcels back and costs are incurred. Costs that are avoidable - because the support of autonomous mobile robots eliminates many sources of error. See how the Zebra Flex Guide robot navigates employees through the warehouse to get to the required storage locations as quickly as possible. Indicators on the shelf and robot show where products are to be picked. The built-in screen always shows the current status of the packing list and thus increases the accuracy of the picking process.
More efficient picking with artificial intelligence
The combination of modern robots, portable data capture devices and AI-supported data analysis creates maximum efficiency when using Zebra Connect AMR. The robots do not have to wait until a trolley is fully loaded with new goods. Instead, the control software ensures that the autonomous mobile robots uncouple themselves and drive to the next deployment point while the picking process is still underway.
MiR600 and MiR1350 demo
Moving heavy loads in warehousing and production environments is often associated with hazards and places a heavy physical strain on people. Heavy-duty robots reliably transport pallets weighing up to 1,350 kg to their destination. The MiR600, with a capacity of up to 600 kg, handles lighter transport tasks. A fully automatic load lifter is mounted as a module on the robot base. This enables the robot to pick up and set down pallets autonomously.
Human-robot collaboration
The further development of assistive robot systems is progressing ever faster. Multiple sensors make it possible for robot modules to move independently, safely and now also at high speeds through the warehouse in order to assist people in their work in intralogistics and not endanger them. In this video, Jim Lawton from Zebra Robotics Automation takes a look at how human-robot collaboration can be improved by our current range of AMR and the benefits that can be realised.
Success Story bei Waytek
Waytek (Minnesota/USA) is a wholesale distributor of electrical components required by car manufacturers and the agricultural industry, for example. The company used a huge, permanently installed conveyor belt system in the warehouse. This could transport up to 800 consignments per day from workstation to workstation - there was no room for upward scaling. The solution: conveyor belts out, autonomous mobile robots in. This freed up almost 1,000 square metres of space for new shelves and workstations, between which AMRs now transport the goods for processing. The controlled destinations can be flexibly extended and the travel routes can be changed at any time.
Operating principle
Conveyor belt systems such as the one used by Waytek are often difficult to expand when the order volume increases. Adding new conveyor belts is costly and takes up space that could be better utilised. This is where our "Zebra Roller" AMRs come into play. They independently pick up goods that have been rolled onto the belt and transport them to the next conveyor connection on individual routes. You can also offer a kind of pick-up service: Once an employee has filled a parcel with the goods for an order, it is picked up by the Zebra Roller. Its height adapts perfectly to the conveyor belt on which the parcel now rolls to the dispatch department.
Success Story at Hippo Harvest
When it comes to AMR, many people think of gigantic logistics and fulfilment centres with robots whizzing around taking products and boxes from A to B. But this was not the environment at Hippo Harvest (California/USA). The idea here was to find a space-saving, efficient and much more cost-effective way of growing different types of lettuce in greenhouses. The result: the robots can travel along the narrowest aisles and operate mobile beds. The greenhouses produce food for people who otherwise have few resources, even in desert regions, using very little water. In this way, automation helps to meet the demand for food.
By day and by night
The RAINOS watering robot is revolutionising work in the green sector. It is used for the fully automatic irrigation of parks, vegetable patches, garden centres and even cemeteries. There is no longer any need to lug around watering cans, employees can focus on other important tasks and their physical strain is minimised. An exciting AMR story - also for television.
INDUROS by Innok Robotics
Only a few autonomous mobile robots are able to move outdoors or on uneven terrain. The INDUROS, however, can do this and even rolls safely over kerbs and gravel tracks. Its tractive force with autonomously coupled trailers: up to one ton!