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US 9,520,012 B2Granted
Retail location robotic wall system and mobile retail sales vehicle
AssigneeBby Solutions, Inc.
InventorChad Stiernagle
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Abstract
A robotic retail wall is presented allowing for the dispensing of merchandise within a retail location. The robotic wall includes commodity products and robotics that pick and deliver products to consumers in response to input at a kiosk. The robotics and products are separated from a retail space by a transparent barrier, allowing consumers in the retail space to view the actions of the robotics in retrieving a product. Behind the robotic wall is a product stocking area, where commodity products can be added to the robotic wall with assistance from the robotics.
Claims19
A mobile retail sales system comprising:
- a robotic wall attachable to a vehicle, the robotic wall including:
- a barrier between an interior and an exterior of the robotic wall;
- a product delivery area passing from the interior to the exterior of the robotic wall;
- an inventory area configured to store a plurality of retail products within the interior of the robotic wall, the plurality of retail products respectfully associated with a plurality of product identifiers, wherein the inventory area includes one or more items for each of the plurality of retail products;
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- robotics within the interior of the robotic wall, the robotics to:
- stock the retail products within the inventory area, wherein each of the plurality of retail products are automatically stocked at one or more stocking locations by the robotics throughout the inventory area to mix stocking locations of different retail products associated with different product identifiers;
- locate a first product item of a first retail product from the inventory area based on a corresponding stocking location;
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- deliver the first product item to the product delivery area;
- a kiosk coupled to the robotic wall, the kiosk having a user interface to allow selection of the first product item based on a first product identifier, the kiosk to:
- command the robotics to locate the first product item at a first stocking location chosen from one or more stocking locations for the first retail product, using the first product identifier;
- and
- deliver the first product item to the product delivery area;
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- a tracking system communicatively coupled to the kiosk, the tracking system to maintain inventory and track the stocking locations of the plurality of retail products.
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A mobile retail sales system comprising:
- a vehicle including a vehicle interior and a vehicle exterior;
- a robotic wall installed within the vehicle interior, the robotic wall including;
- an inventory area providing one or more stocking locations within the robotic wall for a retail product, the retail product respectfully associated with a product identifier, wherein the inventory area stores one or more product items of the retail product at corresponding locations of the one or more stocking locations;
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- robotics coupled to the robotic wall, the robotics to:
- automatically stock the retail product within the one or more stocking locations;
- locate a particular product item of the retail product from the inventory area at a particular stocking location of the one or more stocking locations;
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- deliver the particular product item to a product delivery area passing from vehicle interior to the vehicle exterior;
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- a kiosk coupled to the vehicle exterior, the kiosk having a user interface to allow selection of the particular product item based on the product identifier, the kiosk to:
- command the robotics to locate the particular product item at the particular stocking location chosen from the one or more stocking locations;
- deliver the particular product item to the product delivery area;
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- track the particular product item and the one or more stocking locations within the inventory area to maintain an inventory of the retail product located within the inventory area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.