IFOY Audit
Finalists undergo the three-stage IFOY Audit as part of the IFOY Audit, which takes place during the TEST CAMP INTRALOGISTICS. This consists of the scientific IFOY Innovation Check, the IFOY Test and the jury test.
HAIPICK A42T
HAI Robotics
The world’s first telescopic lift ACR (autonomous case-handling robot), HAIPICK A42T is an advanced robot that realizes intelligent “goods-to-person” picking, improves order fulfillment efficiency, optimizes storage space density, delivers high operational efficiency, reduces picking errors and offers high flexibility for warehouses. The robot is equipped with an intelligent telescopic lift function, which can flexibly cover a range from 0.25 meters to 6.50 meters making unreachable warehouse storage spaces accessible. The robot realizes another breakthrough, creating an ultra-high storage density and offers an innovative solution that suits various warehouses with irregular sizes realising a flexible warehouse automation solution.
Product name and company
HAIPICK A42T – HAI Robotics
Category
Mobile Robot
Description
The HAIPICK A42T system is an innovative goods-to-person system that remarkably improves the picking process while increasing the warehouse’s storage density. The robot intelligently identifies, locates, and picks the desired item in the warehouse. It can pick up to six totes at the same time and carry them to the workstation.
The robot’s minimum access range is as low as 0.25 meters, and the maximum goes up to 6.5 meters. The robot realises ultra-high and flexible storage and maximises the use of warehouse space. The unique Telescopic Lift ACR, HAIPICK A42T shuttles through various irregular and unequal heights between two or more areas in a warehouse, smoothly responding to the complex irregular warehouse environment caused by fire-fighting pipelines, building beams, and other obstacles. People in warehouses can move robots from one side to another quickly when needed, delivering a flexible response to the high operational requirements of varying storage areas. The user can realise a mutual transfer of robots between areas, achieving the highest robot utilisation rate.
Innovations
HAIPICK A42N is equipped with a self-developed telescopic lift that allows the robot to extend its mast and reach spots as high as 6.5 meter while keeping its regular body size of 3.7 meter. Moreover, its body size can be customized, starting from 1.5 meter to 3.7 meter. This flexible solution suits various warehouses with irregular heights and different areas allowing the HAIPICK robot to shuttle between two or more locations. It delivers a flexible response to the high operational requirements of varying storage areas and realises the mutual transfer of robots between areas, achieving the highest robot utilisation rate. Warehouses can move robots from one side to another quickly when needed. The robot can also ride elevators, allowing free shuttle between floors, covering a wider range of warehouse operations. It can realise the integration of warehouse areas and production lines on different floors, combining customised solutions to meet various customer needs.
Market relevance
The innovative features of the first telescopic lift available on the market solve the pain points of warehouse automation and optimisation, multi-range operation and increase productivity.
The HAIPICK A42T robot is the result of a continuous focus on solving customers’ problems.
It moves through various irregular and uneven heights between two or more areas in a warehouse and reacts easily to complex irregular warehouse environments. Its “compact” chassis design allows it to be easily transported and handled, reducing transport costs, speeding up deployment, improving the overall efficiency of project execution and increasing efficiency. An industry breakthrough that puts the HAIPICK A42T at the forefront of warehouse robot technology development, helping more companies to realise warehouse automation transformation, increase storage density and create ultra-high flexibility for any warehouse.
Customer benefits
- Intelligent telescopic lift
- 0.25 meter to 6.5 meter picking range, optimized storage capacity
- High & stable
- Intelligently adapt to warehouses with irregular heights
- Rapid return on invest, low cost
- Customisable robot body
- High efficiency, picking and moving six cases at a time
- Integration with a variety of workstations and devices
- Fast charge in 45 minutes, 24-hour operation
Test report
The HAIPICK A42T is the world’s first telescopic autonomous case handling robot (ACR). The telescopic lifting function allows a flexible range from 0.25m to 6.50m. The robot itself maintains its standard height of 3.70 metres.
The advanced robot enables intelligent and efficient goods-to-person picking in warehouses with irregular heights. The available space is utilised to the maximum, resulting in high storage density. Even in environments where the warehouse height varies.
The system intelligently identifies, locates and collects the desired item. Each storage location has a DM code for this purpose. The HAIPICK robot first scans the position code and then the bin code.
The system is designed for mixed picking of both totes and cartons of different sizes. The ACR can pick up to six totes at a time and transport them to one or more workstations.
Obstacles such as sprinklers, doors, fans and other height-limiting objects are registered in the HAIQ software platform. The ACR knows where the obstacles are, can adjust its height and continue the route. To further increase safety, the mast can be equipped with additional sensors.
By default, the robots are active in a closed area. If pedestrians are also on the move there, the system can be expanded with additional sensors. These detect possible obstacles and ensure that the robot comes to a safe stop.
ACRs included in the HAIQ software platform can automatically switch from one area of operation to another. The robot can also control lifts if they are also connected to the HAIQ software platform. In that case, DM codes are installed in the lift to control the ACR and allow it to be used on multiple floors.
The lithium iron phosphate battery allows for quick and easy intermediate charging. According to the manufacturer, the battery can be recharged in just 45 minutes. This makes the system suitable for 24/7 operation.
The HAIPICK system is scalable and can be easily expanded with more ACRs, more workstations or more racking systems depending on requirements. Other storage systems such as miniloads or shuttles can also be integrated.
Due to customs problems, the HAIPICK A42T could not be verified live in Dortmund in time. Verification was carried out by means of video streaming and manufacturer interviews.
IFOY Test Verdict
The HAIPICK A42T is a unique autonomous case handling robot (ACR). Thanks to the telescopic lifting function, the robot’s mast can be extended to a height of 6.5 metres. It can also be used in environments where the storage height varies. The height of the robot is automatically adjusted to achieve a high storage density.
IFOY Innovation Check
Market relevance
The provision of totes, cartons and boxes in the context of material supply or order picking are of great interest in a variety of applications in industry and trade.
Customer benefit
HAI ROBOTICS offers a solution for this with its product HAIPICK A42T, which has a very extensive modularised design and thus allows a high degree of standardisation with a high degree of flexibility. The device can be classified between AGV and Miniload-AS/RS and therefore has a very high customer benefit especially in the area of new prospective customers for automation solutions.
Novelty
The technology itself is not overly innovative but is composed of a number of well-known and proven solutions. The overall concept, however, is a novel solution (between AS/RS and AGV) and thus clearly innovative.
Functionality / type of implementation
The product is powerful and makes a solid impression. Together with the magazine solution for automatic loading and unloading, it is a convincing concept. Plus point: In the transition from manual warehouses to automated solutions, the product is a good concept. The robustness cannot be estimated. The large overall height with a small surface area is not very innovative.
| Functionality / type of implementation | + |
| Novelty / Innovation | – |
| Customer benefits | Ø |
| Market relevance | + |
| ++ very good / + good / Ø balanced / – less / — not available | |
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