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OT-2026-000002650

Collaborative order fulfillment systems and methods

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
ALTMAN VLADIMIR, DAVID MANSI, GALLUZZO THOMAS, LORESCH MARJORIE, RODGERS RICHARD, SULLIVAN CHRISTOPHER J, VENKATASAMY KRISHNA
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IAM ROBOTICS LLC
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US-12560931-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 24 February 2026
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Abstract

A “meet me” model of collaboration among autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and human workers (pickers) to execute picking and putting within a logistics facility. The AMRs include an intelligent platform having an array of indicator elements that illuminate subsets of the indicator elements to indicate tote locations and numbers of items to be received therein. The pickers receive instructions from a central server on a user device that they hold or wear, and the AMRs receive a list of stop locations within the logistics facility. Selection of the picker to provide an item to an AMR as it approaches one of the stop locations may be dynamic as each picker instruction includes a single item type to be delivered to/from an AMR. Moreover, the central server determines timing for sending the instructions to a user device based on a location of the robot designated to collect an item, thus streamlining workflows for each of the AMR and picker.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000002650, “Collaborative order fulfillment systems and methods,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:14:26 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002650.

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