Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) Warehouse Logistics Solution

Autonomous Mobile Robots, or AMRs, support different types of customized retrofitting. Customized AMRs allow the addition of various assemblies like robotic arms, conveyor roller tops, pallet lifters and transporters, and many other features that help support manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution.

Customized autonomous warehouse robots greatly reduce the difficulty of manual work while improving overall logistics and efficiency. They can be custom-designed to meet your specific needs and carry out redundant tasks while freeing up your valuable workforce to do other more important jobs.

For example, a Mushiny AMR Robot retrofitted with roller conveyors can work in conjunction with conveyor lines that feed product to the robot which in turn transports product to packaging/shipping, production lines, or warehouse for storage. This helps solve the problem of shortage of manpower while also increasing efficiency by three times the rate of a facility without robots.

AMR Logistics robots connect receiving, picking, packing, production, warehouse, and distribution helping you realize accurate and efficient inventory management and control. Pallet mover robots are used by factories and distribution centers for internal logistics.They help complete picking and packing from plastic totes or pallets helping customers achieve full intelligence from production to packaging to inbound and outbound processes in the warehouse.

What is an AMR Robot and how does it differ from the AGV Robot? AMR stands for Autonomous Mobile Robot. AMR Robots offer flexible and intelligent navigation. AGV Robots, or Autonomous Guided Robots, must travel fixed routes that it must travel.

What is most important to remember is that AMR Robots have reactive, intelligent movement. Not only will they automatically stop if there is something obstructing their path, but they also have the ability to move around obstacles. Logistic AMRs transfer products—typically loaded pods or shelving units—around the warehouse or manufacturing facility.

How do autonomous warehouse robots know where they are going? There are a series of QR Codes that look like white dots embedded in the floor of the facility and the AMR robots can recognize the logistic signals they are sending and travel their path just like they would follow a map. The eye on the top of the logistics robot can read the QR code on the bottom of a pod or mobile shelf, recognize its unique code, and deliver the correct items to the correct place without ever making a mistake.

The T6 AMR Robot offers safe and reliable obstacle avoidance. It has anti-collision as well as sound and light alarms making it one of the safest AMRs in the industry. Did I mention it’s fireproof?

The T6 offers superior performance. It has a fast, high-precision lifting speed for when it lifts pods for transport. Its modular structure is stable, reliable, and easy to maintain.

How fast do AMR logistics robots travel? Mushiny’s AMR robots have reached speeds of 4.9 miles an hour but typically travel approximately 2- 3 MPH. Often high speed is not necessary, as employees are not able to keep up with the fast pace. It is more about proper timing and delivery of product than it is about speed.

The brain behind our AMR Robots is the R-WMS or Robotic Warehouse Management System, which schedules performance tasks, maps and monitors the logistics, and provides traffic control. When the logistic robot has completed its task or is running low on power, it will automatically go to its smart charging station.

What is an AMR’s primary task? Pod lifting, pallet moving, and transporting of product. A pod is another name for a mobile shelf unit that is manually or mechanically loaded with products. Each pod has a QR code underneath that identifies which products are stored there. The robot has an eye on top that when under the shelving unit can look up, view, and identify the QR code and determine the location of where the pod is to be taken.

AMR Robot Advantages:

Modular structure designed for stability, reliability, and easy maintenance.
Supporting SLAM and QR code navigation modes.
High overall operating efficiency with a top speed of up to 2.5 MPH.
Great environmental adaptability; battery operation temperature -20-65 degrees Celsius.
All-aluminum mechanical structure, segmented chassis, strong obstacle-crossing ability.
OTA functions for an easy remote upgrade, troubleshooting, maintenance, and problem-solving.
Offering multiple safety protection features; the plastic parts of the AMR are made of fire-retardant materials, and adopt an automotive-grade LFP battery.

Logistic Robot Applications include:

E-Commerce – Logistic ARMs deliver totes or pods-to-person, addressing the pain points such as massive SKUs, significant variation in product dimensions, huge inventory turnover, major capacity fluctuations caused by order peaks and valleys, significant variation in units per order requiring high delivery efficiency.

3PL / 3rd Party Logistics – AMR Robot reduces the work intensity of operators and increases work capacity by 45%

Retail Industry

Apparel Industry – AMR logistics robots deliver totes or pods to people addressing pain points such as massive SKUs, various sizes and colors, seasonal fluctuations, huge order waves to be handled in a short time, low units per order requiring high delivery efficiency, and multiple sales channels increasing complexity of picking operations.

Manufacturing Industry

Automotive Industry – AMR Logistics robots deliver totes or pods-to-person addressing pain points such as high demand for on-time delivery, high risk and high costs of production line shut down, long-distance material moving requiring large amounts of manpower, high-intensity work with multiple connections with various equipment.

Electronics Industry

Medicine / Pharmaceutical Industry – AMRs deliver totes or pods-to-person addressing pain points such as significant variation in size and weight of goods, high storage standards, isolated storage for some categories, strict inventory management, and FIFO requirements for production batch and expiration, and high standard for delivery and accuracy.

Cosmetics Industry

Cold Storage/ Food Distribution Industry