Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s multiple award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robot in the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in the warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and enables companies to reduce their picking labor by 98% and cut picking costs by half.
Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and is part of Photoneo Brightpick Group, which has over 8000 technology installations across the US, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.brightpick.ai
Robotics will advance the demise of civilization. How will people cover the high cost of living if all the jobs are automated or performed by robots? As a people we need each other. We need the verbal communication and eye contact that only another human can provide. How many people have lost their jobs? Think about it. FIGHT THE MACHINE!!!
Great question! typically you need to be doing at least 7000 picks per day to achieve a meaningful ROI (since the installation and servicing costs are relatively fixed, it doesn't make sense to install a solution like this if your volumes are too low). Also worth keeping in mind is how many shifts you are running. It's much easier to achieve good ROI if you're running a 2-shift operation than a single shift (since that effectively doubles your labor savings without incurring additional solution cost).
It's great you mention that, because actually our robots don't require leveling the floor prior to installation. That means they can be easily installed even in brownfield warehouses (as was the case at this site).
So when companies now say "The best part of our company is its employees" they mean Damn, cant wait till the robots come and get rid of these employees!
We've done multiple customer installations and none of them resulted in any job losses. The reality is working in a warehouse is an extremely challenging job that fewer and fewer people want to do. As such, many companies are actually dealing with labor shortages, and all the labor they save on picking from our solution they redeploy to other areas such as packing.
Yes, we can use multiple different variations of totes. The main limiting factor is the size cannot exceed 60x40cm and the tote cannot have holes on the short side (otherwise the robots would not be able to extract the totes using their suction cups). Below are two videos where you can see different types of totes being used with our robots: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SvvUeih4kp4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L_RONVzTiP4.html
Watch our podcast about the US and European online grocery market with industry experts Brittain Ladd and Dr. Matthias Schu: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-us8SM_KkZnU.htmlsi=TgwpkDtRvS0fH3Ry
Watch our podcast with Vineta Bajaj, CFO of Rohlik Group, one of Europe's largest online grocers: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kR0M15-HVFM.htmlsi=jvVWRzIGiw0nMYi4
Watch our podcast with Vineta Bajaj, CFO of Rohlik Group, one of Europe's largest online grocers: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kR0M15-HVFM.htmlsi=jvVWRzIGiw0nMYi4
It depends on the exact layout of your warehouse but typically you'd be looking at ~8000 tote positions at a height of 4 meters (maximum height of the robots) or up to 13-14k if you stack the system using a mezzanine
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The cost depends on how many robots you buy, but typically the range is 50-80k eur per robot including the shelving, totes, installation and support. You also have the option to rent the robots for a fixed monthly fee
😅 good observation, perhaps some day the decanting process will be done by humanoids for the time being, you do still need a human to induct the totes into the system (of course the robots do all the putaway and dynamic slotting autonomously).
We design each system for the specific needs of the customer (throughput, storage locations etc.), so pricing will vary. However, typically you're looking at a cost in the low-single-digit millions including installation and software.
Hi Timothy, The robots do this themselves. They take the totes (boxes) from decanting stations (which is where the totes are replenished with new inventory) and autonomously slot them into the storage shelves. You can see this process at 7:30
Great, early retirement for everyone! :) The sooner the AI and robots take over all of the jobs - the better. Poverty will be solved. Also 40-80% of people don't like their jobs. We all need a few Optimus and Figure 01 robots per person and it will be the end of human labor forever. Unless you want to work and create something of course. :) We will have a parallel economy run (almost) entirely by robots and (almost) fully independent from humans. If there are no people in the production process - there is no need to pay anyone. The transition period - the next 15 years - that might be tough though. Hope we will find a solution as fast as possible. Deflation in prices of goods and services is what we need. From 100.000 to 10.000 to 1.000 to 100 to 10 to 1 to 0,1 to 0,01 and then it's already ridiculous and basically free. Things should be cheaper if humans are not making them. Deflation > UBI
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We don't sell the robots individually but rather as part of a solution consisting of multiple robots and software (in addition to installation itself). The smallest installation we would do would consist of 6-8 robots. At present we only offer our solution in North America and Europe.
@brightpickAI is it possible to use other totes than the default ones? We work with flower bulb products that needs a tote that allows the product to release moisture and to get fresh air from our ventilation system
Hi Miklas, In some cases, yes. The main requirement is that the short side of the tote is flat and has no gaps in it (otherwise the robots would not be able to retrieve the totes using suction cups). Also, the totes cannot be wider than 400mm (but they can be narrower). Please feel free to reach out to our automation experts with more detail and they will happily review your totes and provide more specific feedback: brightpick.ai/contact-us/
Robots will eventually take most human jobs. All the company owners won’t need human workers anymore, and most people won’t be able to get jobs and will be completely broke because of it, but yet all the companies will still charge for their products and services, which most people won’t be able to afford with no jobs and money. (Yea, maybe the products and services will be cheaper since there’s next to no labor costs, but what good does that do to people that can’t even get 1 penny in their pocket ever) And this will only make it that much harder for anyone to start their own business and compete since they’ll be competing with mega corporations that don’t even have to pay for labor. And companies that do have human labor will go down from not being able to compete since they’ll have to charge that much more for products and services since they have to pay for human labor while other don’t, costing that much more jobs and causing that much more people to be broke and jobless. It will be an ever ending cycle that will continuously get worse and worse This is definitely going to hurt everyone except for the company owners, and it will eventually hurt them too in the end since most of their potential customers won’t be able to afford anything from them.
I just completed an automation of a fulfillment center with robotics. Manual labor was replaced by IT and electric-mechanical techs. Physical labor was reduced but head count is the same. yes entry level- low skill positions will get eliminated but high skill technology folks replace them. The robots also have to get built somewhere by someone. There is also the Power limitation of the technology as the amount of juice to drive the machines and the servers that run them is considerable. For a warehouse it works. Put a lot of distance or load and not such an economic solution at this time and at this cost of electricity. Cost of the automation will drop some but power prices are increasing as everything needs to be electric to change the weather. :-)
@@dr.penguin9412 well that's the results so far however doing drugery work when a machine can do it faster and better for the sake of keeping bodies employed doing drugery work strikes me as a drag on the economy. Apply the logic to Farming for instance. The tractor of yesterday is the AGV of today. Sending masses of people out to schye the wheat versus a combine would cause starvation today. It would keep a lot of low skilled people doing something though.
It may be more competitive to change this solution to the following form: the mobile robot is only responsible for picking up the boxes (the mechanical structure of the AMR is simplified and the cost is reduced), transporting the boxes to the sorting table, and then using Visual recognition and robotic arms complete the picking (which is currently done in front of the shelves).
Hi @Soulmateany4096, we appreciate your inputs. The previous generation of our technology was exactly what you are suggesting, i.e. a Goods-to-Robot solution with a stationary 6-axis robotic picking arm. You can check out a video of it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7aJnR8EKedk.html However, we found that by doing the picking directly in-aisle, we can significantly increase efficiency and speed of picking. This means fewer robots are necessary to achieve the same throughput, which results in lower costs (even though the per-robot cost is higher). We also own the entire tech stack and do all our manufacturing in-house, which helps keep costs low. You can check out a full virtual demo of Brightpick Autopicker here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XWlQWgRfh6c.html
