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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDavid SWEENEY, Andromachi CHATZIELEFTHERIOU, Antony Ian Taylor ROWSTRON, Hugh WILLIAMS, Richard John BLACK, Russell JOYCE
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A storage library system comprises a plurality of slots for storing items, a plurality of rails, and a robot for interacting with said items. The robot has at least two foot arrangements each having a respective gripping mechanism for releasably engaging that foot arrangement with the rails. The robot also has a transfer mechanism for moving the robot, while a first one or more of the foot arrangements remains engaged with a first of the rails, from a first position in which one or more of the foot arrangements is in abutment with a second of the rails to a second position in which one or more of the foot arrangements is in abutment with a third of the rails. The robot also has an end-effector for interacting with the items in the slots.
A storage library system comprising:
A computer program for controlling a robot of a storage library system comprising a plurality of slots for storing items, a plurality of rails, the robot comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.