Pharmacy giant Dr. Max uses AI robots to pick orders in its warehouse | Brightpick

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Dr.Max is Europe's second largest pharmacy chain with more than 3,000 pharmacies across 6 countries. The company installed Brightpick Autopicker robots to fully automate its order picking and order fulfillment in its Prague warehouse.
The robots pick more than 7,000 items per day to regularly replenish Dr.Max pharmacies and hospitals in the country. Brightpick Autopickers help ensure the reliable supply of medicines which are vital for maintaining the health and life of Dr.Max customers.
As a medical distributor, Dr.Max faces stringent regulatory requirements. To ensure compliance with these regulations, Brightpick’s software tracks each SKU and batch independently, and can quickly isolate and recall specific batches if needed (for example if a batch is found to be defective). In addition, Brightpick provides real-time visibility into the fulfillment process and inventory, and prioritizes picking from batches with the earliest expiration date.
Brightpick Autopicker is the only autonomous mobile robot (AMR) in the world capable of picking and consolidating orders directly in the warehouse aisles. The robot’s patented two-tote design enables it to retrieve storage totes (bins) from shelving and robotically pick individual items from those storage totes into an adjacent order tote. It does this repeatedly as it moves through the warehouse aisles until the order or batch has been fully picked. The robots use proprietary machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to reliably pick everything from ambient and chilled groceries to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, polybagged apparel and more.
In addition to in-aisle robotic picking, Brightpick Autopicker offers Goods-to-Person (G2P) picking for heavy or hard-to-pick items. The robot automatically takes those totes to a centralized Goods-to-Person station where a human picks the item. This enables companies to use the robot to maximize their labor savings without worrying about every single item being robotically pickable. The versatile Brightpick Autopicker can also be used for pallet picking, stock replenishment, dynamic slotting, order consolidation, buffering and dispatch.
The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and enables companies to reduce their picking labor by 98% and cut picking costs by half.
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[@soulmateany4096]

I have questions about your solution: I understand that your solution is to use cameras and robotic arms to complete picking at the shelves, similar to the human mode. However, there are two problems with this model. One is that the above-mentioned mechanical structure is relatively complex and the cost is not low; the other is that it causes low efficiency and high failure rate.

[@soulmateany4096]

It may be more competitive to change this solution to the following form: the mobile robot is only responsible for picking up the boxes (the mechanical structure of the AMR is simplified and the cost is reduced), transporting the boxes to the sorting table, and then using Visual recognition and robotic arms complete the picking (which is currently done in front of the shelves).

[@brightpickAI]

Hi @Soulmateany4096, we appreciate your inputs. The previous generation of our technology was exactly what you are suggesting, i.e. a Goods-to-Robot solution with a stationary 6-axis robotic picking arm. You can check out a video of it here: th-cam.com/video/7aJnR8EKedk/w-d-xo.html
However, we found that by doing the picking directly in-aisle, we can significantly increase efficiency and speed of picking. This means fewer robots are necessary to achieve the same throughput, which results in lower costs (even though the per-robot cost is higher). We also own the entire tech stack and do all our manufacturing in-house, which helps keep costs low.
You can check out a full virtual demo of Brightpick Autopicker here: th-cam.com/video/XWlQWgRfh6c/w-d-xo.html

[@soulmateany4096]

I'm sorry that I took it for granted and expressed my opinion. Thank you for your explanation.​@@brightpickAI