7 side-by-side robot stations for scalable order picking
DeltiLog automates order picking at the AutoStore with seven AI-driven pick robots from Sereact. The side-by-side stations grasp items and load a put wall. This allows capacity to be expanded without proportionally increasing staffing requirements in picking.
As a logistics service provider, DeltiLog handles a variety of product ranges, including goods for fashion and food customers. With seven pick-and-place robots from Sereact, the company extends the automation of its AutoStore system to include the retrieval and order-based sorting of individual items.
The robot stations are arranged side by side at the AutoStore workstations. While the storage system presents the bins, the robots take over the gripping and placing of goods. They automatically load a put wall, where items are assigned to their respective orders. With multi-order picking, several orders can be processed in parallel. Employees then prepare the shipments for dispatch.
The foundation is a combination of coordinated robot hardware and AI-based control software. Sereact's technology identifies the items presented and determines how they can be grasped. According to the vendor, the so-called zero-shot reasoning also enables the handling of unknown items without having to train each item individually beforehand. This is particularly relevant for logistics service providers with changing product ranges.
AutoStore and the pick robots are connected to the warehouse management system via interfaces. This adds an automated step to the material flow that is often still performed manually: the retrieval from the storage bin and the distribution to customer orders.
The project demonstrates how multiple robot stations can be integrated into a shared picking process. Additional stations make it possible to expand picking capacity without planning for extra staff dedicated to item retrieval for each additional workstation.
