Mobile robots and their applications in different industries

 The onset of the Industrial Revolution augmented the Mobile Robots Application across different industrial functions, however, the latest developments and the pace of business operations made it almost a mandate for many companies to adopt these bots into their everyday operations. Mobile robots, descendants of driverless vehicles that were born in the grocery warehouse of Mac Barret found their place not only within the four walls of the industrial warehouse but across different applications like military, security, healthcare, domestic, surveillance, and entertainment industries. 

This leads to the adoption of automated guided vehicles in India as a  Material Handling Robots and transportation of paper rolls and pallets of sheeted paper as early as the 1970s. With the evolution of Mobile robots and flexibility, they have numerous applications.

In the paper industry, vertical paper roll warehousing and horizontal delivery of paper rolls to printing machines are very typical. To facilitate this, mobile robots are integrated with the down ender system.

 

Food & Beverage Industry

Globally, this industry is booming at a skyrocketing growth rate with numerous players, multiple SKUs, and extending every nook and corner. This continuous growth of the sector leads to a great utilization of available space plus the very nature of the products demands quick logistics and supply chain management operations. Especially the beverage industry is subjected to enormous price pressure worldwide. Hence there is an acute need for operational cost savings and even the very marginal price differences can define the fate of the business. This is how warehouse automation solutions and mobile robots came into the picture. Popularly piggyback model of mobile robots can be used to perform pallet transportation. These mobile robots are equipped with conveyors to manage pallet pick up and drop off laterally onto stationary conveyor equipment. These robots do offer a high amount of operational flexibility.

Hospitals 

Another interesting area of application of mobile robotics is Healthcare automation, where they are used for carrying surgical/medical supplies, linens, medicines, needle trays, and other generic items. Their ability to interact with one another, collision avoidance capabilities with other mobile robots, humans, obstacles like doors, walls, etc makes them very flexible to use in multi-specialty hospitals where nurses and other helping staff do walk for kilometers every day carrying the essential items. By mounting a UV technology system on mobile robots, they can be used for sanitizing hospital corridors, operation theatres, and quarantine facilities, etc to prevent the spread of acquired infections.

Intra-Logistics – Warehouse Logistics

Shelf Units – Semi-automated installation (manual intervention) – To transport semi-finished or finished goods between productions, between production and warehouse and/or in warehouse logistics. This is especially useful for automobile or electronics industries where the manufacturing of main products involves the assembly of thousands of spare parts.

Conveyor band/belts – This is one of the popular applications of mobile robotics with a conveyor top module attached to it. It is used majorly to transport material between fixed conveyor band/belts - it could be between a robotic depalletization unit to shelving unit, or from a palletizing unit to dispatch unit or between production lines or from the production line to delivery. These are usually fully Warehouse Automation Solutions.

About Addverb Technologies - Warehouse Automation Companies In India

Addverb Technologies one of the best robotics company in India having the intention to shift the horizons of work by pioneering human-robot collaboration to transform lives. Addverbs mobile robot travels on natural navigation and 2 stage obstacle prevention make the environment safer.