The Numina Group launched Batchbot 2.0, a next-generation solution that integrates the company’s flagship software, Real-time Distribution Software (RDS-WES), with its advanced order fulfillment picking suite and autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) Dispatcher Modules to deliver high-performance AMR picking.
"Batchbot 2.0 represents best-in-class AMRs and people unified in a step-by-step move, pick, and validate order fulfillment operation," says Dan Hanrahan, CEO of Numina Group. "The solution is ideally suited for 3PLs, e-commerce, and omnichannel manufacturing and industrial supply warehouses shipping both parcel and mixed product pallets for LTL and truckload shipments. A facility can invest in a modular system with as few as 7–10 AMRs, achieve ROI within 24 months, and add voice picking users and AMRs as order volume grows."
Key takeaways:
· Batchbot 2.0 offers a scalable alternative to high-CapEx material handling automation. By integrating KUKA’s 5th Generation AI-infused AMRs with the RDS Voice Picking Suite, the optimized “human-in-the-loop” solution coordinates AMR and picking operator movement in zone-aisle, floor-based order picking.
· The solution reduces over 20 minutes of wasted operator walk or forklift drive time per hour, allowing operators to spend more time picking per hour to achieve 270-300-plus case per line picks per hour. Batchbot 2’s picking productivity rate rivals the performance of far more expensive GTP and pallet shuttle storage and retrieval systems.
· The RDS Dispatcher module, in combination with the Voice Picking Suite, employs a multi-parameter ML algorithm that evaluates pick operator positions to use voice commands to proactively move the closest available operators in real time to meet in-transit AMRs during the order pick mission.
· Key software innovation features include weighted distance-time cost algorithm; NVIDIA-powered AMRs using Lidar + Vision; and multi-AMR interoperability.
