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US 2026/0167422 A1Published application
High-density automated storage and retrieval system
AssigneeCarnegie Mellon University
InventorsHERMAN HERMAN, RICH PANTALEO, GABRIEL GOLDMAN
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are various configurations of a high-density storage system comprising a plurality of layers, each layer comprising a plurality of rows for storing a plurality of coupled totes and one or more robotic carriers located on opposite ends of each layer, each carrier being multiple rows wide, each carrier capable of retrieving totes from a row in the layer, depositing a tote into a row or oral in a layer and shifting totes from one row to another within the layer.
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A storage structure comprising:
- a plurality of layers, each layer comprising a plurality of rows for storing a plurality of totes;
- an intake/output structure disposed on a lowest layer of the storage structure;
- one or more vertical conveyors for moving totes from the storage structure to the intake/output structure;
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- one or more robotic carriers for delivering totes from a row in a layer of the storage structure to a vertical conveyor or from a vertical conveyor to a row in a layer of the storage structure.
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