NextShift Robotics Receives Patent for Vertical Lift Capability as Part of Robotic Picking Process

NextShift Robotics, a provider of autonomous mobile robot solutions for automated order fulfillment and warehouse materials management, announced this past week it had been granted its second patent, Method and System for Automated Transport of Items as of February 26, 2019. The new patent, first filed in 2014, pertains to the operation of a robotic picking system in which the containers to be picked are positioned on shelves and within picking stations.
We are pleased to add to our portfolio of important intellectual property in the mobile robotic material handling space, said Mary Ellen Sparrow, CEO and Founder of NextShift. The patented ability to place and retrieve containers from variable shelf heights is very important in a Lean Manufacturing environment where standardized containers are delivered to point of use in work cells.