Mujin will showcase its unique robotic offerings for streamlining case flows for warehouses at MODEX 2024. The live demonstrations at the Mujin booth will include its truck/container unloader TruckBot, which will feed into two robotic palletizing cells that sort and palletize the inbound freight.
Mujin will demonstrate its mixed-case depalletizing offering for any warehouse receiving mixed pallets. The company will also unveil a new order fulfillment product, Robotic Case Picking, that marks a leap forward in logistics efficiency for forward fulfillment.
Advances in outbound logistics automation, order fulfillment
“We’re here to show the big impact the latest innovations in robotics can have on warehouse operations,” said Josh Cloer, director of sales at Mujin. “Historically in warehouses, deploying robot systems has often been an afterthought to solve a specific manual challenge, which means they often get shoehorned into specific tasks with workflows and constraints originally designed for humans.”
The new Robotic Case Picking tackles the case pick workflow within the order fulfillment process, which is typically a highly manual task and has been difficult to automate fully. Mujin is deploying a goods-to-robot system comprised of mixed-case palletizing robots working in concert with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to pick directly from inventory pallets and build order pallets ready for outbound delivery.
“By taking a new approach that includes robotics from initial concepting, robots, autonomous vehicles and other material handling automation can now work in concert to further drive overall performance, savings and reduction in ergonomic challenges,” Cloer added.
Planning and orchestration of the overall objectives and individual system tasks are completely managed by MujinController, which communicates to any warehouse management system (WMS) for information and updates concerning order and inventory management. The Robotic Case Picking system brings flexible automation to warehouses looking to fulfill more orders without the back-breaking workload of traditional case picking, additionally shortening delivery windows while reducing picking errors and ergonomic issues for their workforce.
TruckBot capability advancements
The latest advancement to the TruckBot container/truck unloading system introduces the capability to handle larger and heavier boxes and increase performance with its advanced multi-picking capabilities. TruckBot significantly reduces manual labor, improves safety and accelerates warehouse operations, according to Mujin.
Complementing TruckBot, Mujin's robotic palletizing solutions are engineered for efficiency in sorting, stacking and organizing goods for storage or further processing.
Mujin’s mixed-SKU depalletizing offerings are fit for operations receiving mixed-loads on pallets. Utilizing advanced 3D vision and real-time motion planning, the system is capable of managing a wide variety of pallet loads with zero prior inputs. On display at MODEX is a multi-channel gripper that allows for opportunistic multi-picking to further boost receiving throughput.
Real-time decision-making allows the system to tackle challenging scenarios that use data inputs from vacuum and force-torque sensors to re-attempt picks without damaging product. In September 2023, Mujin received $85 million in Series C funding, and planned to grow its robotics footprint in the U.S.
“At MODEX, we're merging a wide array of robotics technologies into a single, cohesive automation system,” said Mujin CEO Ross Diankov, CEO, Mujin, “Central to this achievement is the MujinController platform, which contains an extensive assortment of tools and technologies.”
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