Legacy autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fulfillment solutions use either the Swarm or Follow Me picking methodologies. Swarm often leads to undirected, unbalanced loads and low AMR usage. For example, one picker may be assigned to many robots or there may be extended dwell time in the aisles, at induction and at drop-off. With Follow Me, each worker is assigned to a specific robot, so pickers are limited by the AMR’s speed.
The challenges can go largely undetected in a typical collaborative robotic-assisted fulfillment operation, where AMRs are caught in a cycle of inefficiency, waiting in queues that waste valuable capital. In legacy systems, robots frequently remain idle, whether they’re waiting for work to be inducted, standing by in aisles for pickers to locate them, or parked at drop-off points queued for work to be removed. This waiting is not a productive use of resources; rather, it represents costly downtime that undermines the return on investment made in these robots.
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