{"id":578671,"date":"2024-04-10T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=578671"},"modified":"2024-04-10T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:54:06","slug":"autopicker-wins-2024-rbr50-application-of-the-year-for-brightpick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/autopicker-wins-2024-rbr50-application-of-the-year-for-brightpick\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopicker wins 2024 RBR50 Application of the Year for Brightpick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Autopicker mobile manipulators in a warehouse aisle. Source: Brightpick<\/p><\/div>\n

This year, the annual RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards added new categories: Application of the Year, Startup of the Year, and Robot of the Year. We received numerous submissions, but the Autopicker system from Brightpick stood out for automating both mobile manipulation and each picking.<\/p>\n

Other robots combining<\/a> mobility with manipulation have come and gone, from Fetch<\/a> and Freight to Swift<\/a>, in part because getting to commercially viable levels of reliability has been challenging. Not only has Autopicker added newer artificial intelligence to the mix, but it has also been deployed in existing customer warehouses.<\/p>\n

“On the AI side, this was not possible five to six years ago,” Jan Zizka, co-founder and CEO of Brightpick, told The Robot Report<\/em><\/a>. “Serious breakthroughs enable machine learning to generalize to unseen items.”<\/p>\n

Autopicker learns with each pick<\/h2>\n

Autopicker combines a mobile base, a robotic arm, machine vision, and AI for e-commerce order fulfillment. The system reduces the need for warehouse associates to travel with carts, thanks to its patented design, which enables it to pick items<\/a> from standard shelving and place them in either of two totes.<\/p>\n

Brightpick said Autopicker can pick groceries, cosmetics, electronics, pharmaceuticals<\/a>, apparel, and more with 99.9% accuracy. Its AI algorithms have been trained on more than 500 million picks to date, and they are improving with each pick, added<\/a> the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Announced<\/a> in February 2023, the system also supports pallet picking, replenishment, dynamic slotting, buffering, and dispatch. It can store up to 50,000 SKUs, said Brightpick. It also offers a goods-to-person option for heavy or hard-to-pick items, and Autopicker can raise its bins to waist height for ergonomic picking.<\/p>\n

In the past year, customers such as Netrush<\/a> and Rohlik Group<\/a> began deploying the company’s latest system. Autopicker is available for direct purchase or through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS<\/a>) model.<\/p>\n