Autonomous delivery
AssigneeNCR Voyix Corporation
InventorsMatthew Robert Burris, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Abstract
A pre-staged or in-person provided order is received from a customer location. Order details are sent to a fulfillment terminal and items associated with the order are prepared or collected. The items are loaded into an autonomous device. The autonomous device plans a route from its current location to the customer location and the autonomous device navigates from its current location to the customer location using the route. The customer is verified at the autonomous device and a secure bin is unlocked by the autonomous device. The customer removes the items associated with the order from the unlocked secure bin, and the autonomous device navigates back to its original location within an enterprise.
Claims1
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by an autonomous device, order details for an order including a designated location where a customer associated with the order is to be delivered the order;
- confirming, by the autonomous device, items associated with the order details are loaded into a secure bin of the autonomous device;
- navigating, by the autonomous device, from a current location to the designated location;
- and
- unlocking, by the autonomous device, the secure bin allowing the customer to remove the items associated with the order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.