AutoStore | Introduction: Stop Airhousing, Start Warehousing

AutoStore is a high-performance, high-speed warehouse robot system delivering goods-to-person from an ultra-dense storage grid. This order fulfillment system, or Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) is used by many of the world's best-known brands.
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[@leifjohnson617]

Whoever came up with this solution is a TOTAL GENIUS!

[@AutoStoresystem]

Agreed! :) That's our genius Ingvar Hognaland and the AutoStore team.

[@maryanh.4679]

im actually behind it :), thank you!

[@JuanPerez-fu1nd]

@@maryanh.4679 😂

[@jhm7170]

Operations manager overseeing a 145 robot autostore- it’s excellent

[@enderstevesgaming8274]

I have seen this in real life, and its an amazing system.

[@movax20h]

Not the fastests, but flexibility of layout, adapting to building constraints, and the density is really the highest you can get. Also, it is easy to install this underground, or put human stations high, so the robots, don't need to bring things down again for picking or packing. Instead, operate mostly at the top. Really cool. Also numbers of robots can be easily varied, and expanded for more speed, and reundancy, that is also great. Building it is also way easier, the main construction is made out of cheap to made and cut extrussions, that is also really cool.

[@Insights4Mfg]

Amazing technology, saving space, power and time. All great for greater efficiency and customer service delight.

[@Mike-ccu]

It´s really amazing to see how efficient this works.

[@damianzelazny5785]

... and then you have a UK company like ocado taking it as (open source idea) putting an extra tires on and saying its thier`s own ;D

[@terirogers2755]

As an auto-store client/user, are we able to utilize parts of this video publicly to demonstrate our capabilities? Or would we require copyright permissions?

[@nbmonroy]

As an AutoStore integrator, I think the answer would be to feel free to share as much as possible! :)

[@SkigBiggler]

Cool idea, but how on earth could you service this installation. Thankfully, the grid itself does not contain any moving parts, but were something to get stuck down one of the columns (unlikely, but possible) would you just have to give up that column of space? In addition, it seems it would be difficult to reach any robot that malfunction in the centre of the grid. Also appears there could be some fire hazards with so many goods packed in crates with short distances between them, but enough air still present to fuel a fire.

[@AutoStoresystem]

Thanks for the great questions. When it comes to service we know that this is a common question. Over our 20 years in developing and producing our system, we have also created procedures, methods, and tools to address and fix the problems noted for our 500 installations around the world. Likewise, the question about fire hazard is always a challenge; especially in a modern warehouse that is getting bigger and bigger and more technology-driven. For our system, we have done extensively fire testing since 2007; we are one of the leading companies when it comes to research on fires in systems like this. FM Global has also released a new datasheet 08-34 that covers this type of system. Please let us know if there are any other questions we can answer for you!

[@agrajag-no]

Doesn't seem that impossible to handle to be honest. Something like this would work I think: 1) Tell the system to empty all the columns adjacent to the one with a stuck item in it. 2) Tell the system to consider a certain part of the grid as "off limits", i.e. no robots are to drive in *this* part of the grid. 3) Send in a maintenance-person to dislodge the stuck item, and if need be repair the column. 4) Tell the system that this part of the grid can now be used again. This *does* assume that the grid has at least some space space so as to make it possible to empty parts of the grid without disrupting operations. But there's many reasons such as system will likely work best if it's at most 75% or something of that magnitude full.

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@agrajag-no 3d tetris then?

[@MakyProchy]

Doest this work with SAP, warehouse module and other ERP systems? or does it run on its own individual system?

[@user-gv5mn7ds6q]

This is genius, but i wonder if this would be viable with a small space, such as sorting materials for hobby construction

[@freedomfighter5222]

Yes - really amazingly smart warehouse system!

[@irkiIIer]

hardware retailers need this

[@ryanhuang7945]

When does AutoStore go IPO? I am very willing to invest in AutoStore.

[@ajax8993]

Perfect idea! Perfect realization!

[@ravindertalwar553]

Congratulations 👏 and all the best for your success and happiness 💗

[@erikev]

Funny how the only warehouse not using Autostore in this video is Autostores own manufacturing facility. They are using the traditional shelving system. Why?

[@aaronbrown8377]

Irony.

[@balazssebestyen2341]

It's a factory, not a warehouse

[@samirasaleh5727]

Great !

[@clintonrezeki4243]

How does this compare with Ocado’s hive?

[@Pulsewave0]

Closely enough to spark a chain of court cases!

[@gytisstepo3782]

1:57 IS THAT TIESTO???

[@aakashnandha7783]

Great but what about big products or variety of products and it will also increase unemployment

[@jfandersson3223]

It’s impossible to halt technological innovation. It’s your own fault if you chose a profession so easily replaced by automated robots.

[@_monti142]

when carriages where drawn by horses, there was a lot of horseshit on the streets but when cars appeared there was less shit on the street, the people who where cleaning it lost a lot of jobs, do you suggest we should ban cars or subsidize horse drawn carriages so that the people shoveling horseshit keep their jobs?

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@_monti142 i doubt there were hundreds thousands of horseshit cleaners per city

[@thomasqvarnstrom3404]

Everyone thinks they're irreplaceable until they get replaced themselves,it's funny when some who laugh here at people losing their livelyhood get replaced by a box. :)

[@werner2458]

verry gppd buy stock now earnd 20%

[@humanmaximus9201]

General Motors CCA

[@jordanwedzinga7042]

As a warehouse worker we do not want this!!

[@TTVGremLynn309]

speak for yourself lol

[@jhm7170]

Keep walking, bending, lifting and straining then.

[@M-M-M-M]

Nice system, however, one might ask though: if everything will be done by robots, whose going to buy the products they need to orderpick? Because today's orderpicker robot is tomorrow's baker robot or pick any other manual labor... This eternal race to "cut costs and service time" will lead to something like today's problem's, where two third of all manufacturing is outsourced to China and as a result, European middle class ceased to exist because of this, to mention only one of the issues. What all those low skill laborers are going to do, who are replaced by these robots? Because they are also part of the market, they also contribute to sales and if they'll also disappear because of the robot workforce, again, who is going to buy all these items these robots need to pick? It almost feels like humans are creating these technologies to destroy themselves on the long run. Bit Skynet-ish, if you like, though in a different kind of way, indeed. I am happy that I'll probably not have to live through these struggles, being in my forties already, though it is concerning, to say the least, if I think about the future of my children. That is, indeed, if Russia and Putin isn't going to destroy the world in the next few months/years in a nuclear war...

[@forrest5050]

i think you and i are cosmic twins. after reading your post i realized i just met myself. im just glad we dont run the world.corporate greed knows no bounds so wheres john connor when u need him?

[@denis_penis]

wow

[@mathgasm8484]

Just saw those robots in action live today its neat.