Mobile Robotic Platform

May 11, 2022
The Berkshire Grey BG FLEX platform extends the functionality of the system to provide end-to-end fulfillment and sortation processing.

BG Flex is the next generation of Berkshire Grey's mobile robotic platform. It includes dynamically controlled fleets of industrial-grade mobile robots that work together to induct, transport, sort, sequence, and fulfill items, cases, and containers of merchandise. The comprehensive AI-based solutions enable faster, higher throughput for e-commerce and retail fulfillment.

 

The solution is integrated with high-density buffering capabilities and enhanced goods-to-person and goods-to-robot picking stations in a single, modular package. Users can convert any floor into a flexible any-to-any induct-to-discharge sortation system and implement complete fulfillment systems for any environment.

 

Orchestrating hundreds to thousands of mobile robots working together, improving performance over time via AI and machine learning, offering design flexibility, and including simulation are just some of the ways that this platform reinvents warehouse automation. It also provides open APIs that enable integration with AS/RS, palletizers, and other systems.

 

Fulfillment operations can realize many benefits, including reducing store truck unload and aisle replenishment times with granular presorting, reducing reshelving and maximizing inventory pick station utilization for eCommerce, automatically integrating resale-ready returned goods with existing inventory, and storing and consolidating partial orders together with filled orders for just-in-time transport loading.

Transforms fulfillment operations by:

  • Reducing store truck unload and aisle replenishment times with granular presorting.
  • Enabling seamless curbside pick-up and extended BOPIS product selection. 
  • Facilitating delivery-route alignment for quick commerce and home delivery.
  • Maximizing transport utilization in delivery networks.
  • Reducing reshelving and maximizing inventory pick station utilization for eCommerce.
  • Automatically integrating resale-ready returned goods with existing inventory. 
  • Storing and consolidating partial orders together with filled orders for just-in-time transport loading.
  • Storing, picking, and sorting, with industry-leading goods conveyability.
  • Integrating with Berkshires Grey’s family of AI-enabled robotic picking solutions.

Reinvents warehouse automation by:

  • Orchestrating hundreds to thousands of mobile robots working in concert.
  • Improving performance over time via AI and machine learning to interpret and adapt to the variability of each customer’s operations and provide ongoing throughput optimization.
  • Scaling from moderate to very-large operations in a matter of days with no downtime.
  • Delivering high reliability and resiliency with no single points of failure.  
  • Offering design flexibility, making solutions particularly well-suited for deployment within existing (brownfield) as well as new (greenfield) operations.
  • Including unique simulation capabilities for planning operations virtually with real-time visualization to deliver rapid deployments and production performance out-of-the-box.
  • Providing open APIs that enable integration with AS/RS, palletizers, and other systems.