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OT-2026-000002041

Storage and retrieval system rover interface

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
APGAR TAYLOR, BARBOUR RUSSELL, BUZAN FORREST, DORVAL RICK, JOHNSON WILLIAM JR, KEATING JOHN F, KEPPLE TODD, MACDONALD EDWARD, MARGAGLIANO LAWRENCE, MATTHEWS JOHN, PERRY THOMAS, PUSKAREVIC PREDRAG
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SYMBOTIC LLC
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EP-4653344-A3, the European Patent Office, 11 March 2026
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Abstract

An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000002041, “Storage and retrieval system rover interface,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:10:23 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002041.

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