Autonomous Mobile Robots Close the Automation Gap in Production Facilities

摘要

Autonomous mobile robots are becoming widely accepted in manufacturing and other settings. They're getting deployed in a broad range of environments and applications, from moving materials in a factory to carrying medication to patient rooms in a hospital. Production processes have long been automated, but the movement of material has typically been a manual process, a gap in an otherwise automated facility. That's beginning to change with the development of autonimous mobile robots (AMRs) that move autonomously around a production facility without the traditional infrastructure requirements of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).