Automated packing cart

An automated packing cart assembly, comprising:

• a cart including a lower deck, vertical supports, and an upper deck forming a space within which containers are held, the lower deck including an empty-container staging area and a filled-container staging area;
• a gantry secured to the upper deck, the gantry including a gripper system configured to releasably grab a container;
• a control module configured to:
• cause the gripper system to retrieve the container from the empty-container staging area and transport it to a receiving site to receive an object in the container;
• determine when the container is filled;
• and
• transport the filled container to the filled-container staging area,
• wherein the gantry includes a vertical motion servo and a horizontal motion servo, each in electro-mechanical association with the gripper system via the control module to cause the gripper system to move in a vertical motion and/or a horizontal motion, and
• wherein the control module is programmed to execute a homing procedure, in which, upon the automated packing cart assembly experiencing a reset, a system fault, or is powered-on after being powered-off, each of the vertical motion servo and the horizontal motion servo is moved to an initializing point.