Continual growth in supply chains worldwide, paired with labor shortages, is increasingly raising the demands put on fulfillment and warehouse operations. By using FANUC’s automation solutions, warehouse robots and cobots can quickly and consistently perform tasks such as picking, packing and palletizing to help reduce downtime, delivery delays, workplace accidents and errors.
An overview of FANUC's Warehousing robots and solutions.
Automate the process of unloading pallets with robotic warehousing solutions from FANUC. Using artificial intelligence, our robots and cobots can handle mixed depalletizing, unloading materials of varying weights, shapes, and sizes without interruption. By integrating robotic depalletizing solutions into your warehouse operations, you can save time, improve efficiency, and reduce the need for operator intervention.
Robotic depalletizing uses vision and specialized tooling to remove cases, rows, or full layers and support mixed pallet workflows.
Video courtesy of Motion Controls Robotics Inc.
This automation cell depalletizes cases from freezer lines, routes them through conveyors, palletizes multiple SKUs, and prepares wrapped pallets.
Video courtesy of Adaptec Solutions
A vision‑guided robotic depalletizer handles mixed pallet loads, picking cartons of different sizes and placing them onto a conveyor for fulfillment.
Video courtesy of AWL Automation LLC
A demonstration of the FANUC DR‑3iB/6 Stainless delta robot performing high‑speed pick‑and‑place in a hygienic food‑grade environment.
Video courtesy of JR Automation
The next frontier in robotic warehouse automation reduces the burden on the workforce by using robots to pick goods from totes (Goods to Robot), which is no small task considering the variety of SKUs in any warehouse FANUC has strategically developed robots and cobots to meet the needs of the warehouse/distribution market. With the help of 3D Vision Systems combined with AI, FANUC has an automated picking solution that’s right for you.
A FANUC M‑20iD/12L robot picks goods delivered by Skypod AMRs and organizes them into fulfillment containers using vision and AI‑based picking.
Video courtesy of Exotec
The Osaro robotic bagging solution recognizes hundreds of thousands of products and can pack and ship over 350 parts per hour.
Video courtesy of OSARO
The Pick‑it‑Easy Robot uses AI‑based vision and flexible grippers to automatically pick individual items of varying shapes and properties.
Video courtesy of Knapp
This goods‑to‑robot system presents parts to a robot that picks individual items for fulfillment operations.
Robots and cobots can make palletizing operations more expedient through automation technology. With flexible warehousing robot solutions from FANUC, your operations can achieve higher levels of productivity through optimized robotic palletizing processes and patterns.
A FANUC M-710iC/45 palletizes mixed sized from a conveyor.
A FANUC M‑410iB/140H palletizes random‑size cases using vision and smart software, adapting instantly to mixed boxes and building pallets at multiple stations.
Video courtesy of Autotec Engineering
Three FANUC palletizing robots receive totes from a retrieval system and stack them onto pallets delivered by a conveyor and transfer cart.
Video courtesy of Mesh Automation Inc
The MACPal system uses a FANUC M‑410 palletizing robot to build order‑specific pallets within an automated fulfillment operation.
Video courtesy of Mesh Automation Inc
Video courtesy of OSARO
The use of warehouse robots for singulation and induction can limit the need for tedious manual labor and reduce the risk of injury and error. Robotic singulation technology, coupled with robotic sortation processes, can help warehouses improve efficiency and cohesion in their operations.
A FANUC LR10iA/10 robot processes 1,800 packages/hour with 99% barcode accuracy using FANUC iRVision 3DV tech.
Video courtesy of Mesh Automation Inc
Plus One Robotics’ InductOne is a dual-arm automated cell with high throughput rates, space-efficient design, rapid deployment, and AI-powered vision.
Video courtesy of Plus One Robotics
ROBiN is an AI‑driven robotic induction system that de‑layers cases from pallets and loads them into totes for automated storage and retrieval systems.
Video courtesy of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)
A dual‑arm robotic system uses two FANUC M‑10 robots to singulate and induct packages of varying sizes into a conveyor‑based handling process.
Video courtesy of Fortna
A bin package sorting system uses a FANUC M‑20iD/25 robot to pick boxes from a bin and place them onto a conveyor.
By automating warehouse sortation, you can improve throughput, order accuracy, productivity, and profitability while reducing labor costs. Automated warehouse solutions from FANUC are flexible and scalable, allowing them to adapt to changing needs and output demands.
An automated storage and retrieval system uses FANUC robots to store and retrieve totes for order fulfillment operations.
Video courtesy of Motion Controls Robotics Inc.
An RFSS robotic sortation system uses a FANUC R‑2000iC/165F robot to pick and sort products onto designated outbound lanes.
Video courtesy of JR Automation
Streamline your supply chain with automated truck loading and unloading. Automating this part of the fulfillment process can significantly speed up the turnaround time, reduce product damage during the handling process, as well as keep workers safe by minimizing strenuous tasks.
Pixmo is an autonomous robot that unloads boxes from trucks and containers using AI‑guided perception, a cobot arm, and vacuum tooling.
Video courtesy of Anyware Robotics
Print and apply label systems automatically create and attach unique identification or shipping labels to containers of all shapes and sizes. Using FANUC cobots and robots in fully automated print and apply labeling systems that involve thousands of containers per hour with consistent accuracy applying one or more labels to multiple surfaces, can have a significant impact on speed, throughput and productivity.
Video courtesy of AuthenTEK Solutions
An angle‑mounted FANUC LR Mate robot applies labels to pallets as they move along a conveyor.
Video courtesy of Autotec Engineering
Decanting operations typically demand high staffing requirements and can be hazardous to manual laborers, but with warehouse automation solutions from FANUC, decasing and decanting operations alike can be made safer and more cost-effective. Widespread automation of decanting processes in warehouses is the logical next step after a push for other fulfillment automation solutions.
After boxes are scanned a FANUC M-10iD/12 performs precise box cutting for enhanced box opening performance and integrity.
Video courtesy of DAC Robotics
Six vision‑guided FANUC M‑710iC robots simultaneously remove beverage cases from pallets and transfer them to a mainline conveyor for mixed‑pack production.
Video courtesy of Strongpoint Automation
Because co-packers manufacture and package products for other companies, they constantly handle many mixed SKUs in their warehouse environments. This wide variety can cause diminished efficiency, which leads to less profitability. With co-packing robotic automation solutions from FANUC, production rates, ergonomic safety and profits can all be boosted.
A beverage variety packing system separates single‑flavor pallets, routes cans into lanes, cartons them into variety packs, and palletizes finished cartons.
Video courtesy of Adaptec Solutions
By utilizing FANUC warehousing robots and cobots, you can automate virtually any application, including storage systems, warehouse retrieval, and more. Below are just a few examples of how manufacturers take advantage of warehouse automation solutions from FANUC.
An automated storage and retrieval system uses FANUC robots to store and retrieve totes for order fulfillment operations.
Video courtesy of Motion Controls Robotics Inc.
Watch a FANUC‑powered automated storage and retrieval system manage inventory and material movement.
FANUC cobots are ideal for warehousing applications that require the highly reliable and flexible capability of a traditional FANUC robot, paired with sensitive force sensing technology built into the base of the robot that makes it safe to work around. Our cobots also eliminate the costly need for capital equipment, including costly safety fencing, which can help save on floor space and add flexibility with easy redeployment options.
An order is selected on a tablet teach pendant, triggering an AMR to travel to a transfer station where cobots scan and load bins for fulfillment.
The integration of FANUC robotics in the warehouse and supply chain can significantly optimize operations, from managing inventory to satisfying fulfillment requirements. The speed and consistency of FANUC’s warehouse cobots and robots contribute to faster throughput, allowing you to meet tight delivery deadlines and scale your operations seamlessly.
FANUC’s robotic warehouse automation has the highest reliability performance in the industry and can significantly boost warehouse productivity. State-of-the-art robotic vision systems enable robots to rapidly identify, sort and select random objects on a conveyor according to location, color, shape or size.
Using FANUC’s warehouse cobots and robots in repetitive and physically demanding warehouse and fulfillment operations can take the human element out of potentially unsafe conditions. Automation helps minimize the risk of workplace injuries and frees up workers to do other necessary jobs.
The flexibility and scalability of robotic automated fulfillment operations can support the fluidity of e-commerce and supply chain demands. FANUC robotic warehouse automation can handle large SKU counts in a small footprint and are available to meet a wide variety of sizes, speeds and payloads needed.
Warehouse robots from FANUC are a uniquely reliable and efficient solution to warehousing and supply chain manufacturing challenges where labor shortages, bottlenecks, product quality, or other challenges are present. FANUC warehouse robots and cobots are designed to be easy to use, making it simple and efficient to create, alter, and execute new programs.
The rising popularity of robotic warehouse automation solutions stems primarily from the many benefits provided by the integration of robots in: By automating physically-demanding and low-cognitive tasks, warehouses can achieve higher levels of productivity, efficiency, safety, and product quality.
Robotic order fulfillment refers to the growing trend of utilizing automation solutions and warehouse robots to optimize processes such as picking, sorting, and palletizing. Fulfillment robots present numerous benefits, such as giving businesses a competitive advantage and increasing overall productivity.
This trend also allows warehouses to automate tasks and processes that require minimal cognitive effort, reducing worker strain and promoting safer environments.
Integrating warehouse robots can be largely beneficial regardless of the size and scope of your operations. However, before choosing what types of warehouse robots you will use, it is important to consider factors such as:
- Warehouse operation bottlenecks
- How long it takes to take and manage inventory
- How well your current systems track your inventory
- How much time workers spend picking items for order fulfillment
By identifying areas of improvement, as well as places that routinely drain your staff’s time, energy, and focus, can give you an idea of where robot integration will be most beneficial for your warehouse.
Enhancing your operations with robotics in your warehouse often requires a high initial investment; however, our robots and cobots produce measurable results in the form of increased efficiency and fulfillment rates, decreased worker stress and injury, and improved precision of picking, packaging, and palletizing. If you are interested in purchasing robotic warehouse automation for your facility, please contact one of FANUC’s warehouse automation experts.
Using warehousing robots can improve the effectiveness of your operations in many ways. For example, warehouse automation allows you to delegate more complex, meaningful tasks to your company’s employees rather than assigning them to complete repetitive, monotonous tasks, increasing the efficiency of these processes while also reducing the risk of injury and stress.
Automating your warehouse can also limit the potential of human error through programming repetitive tasks as well as quality control measures, resulting in higher fulfillment accuracy and reducing the amount of time needed to manually verify accuracy and address mistakes.
Learn more about how warehouse robots and cobots can specifically improve the performance of your warehouse operations by contacting our team of automation and robotics experts today.
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Rail-mounted robotic palletizing system with extended reach, fast 15s travel, and multi-zone vacuum EOAT enabling flexible, high-speed handling.
Video courtesy of Conveyor & Automation Tech
The CASi‑IBOD system measures incoming boxes of varying sizes and automatically cuts them for safe, efficient product removal up to 950 boxes per hour.
Video courtesy of CASI Cornerstone Automation Systems
FANUC M‑710iD/M50 powers Sigma to unload mixed‑case trailers at high speed with AI vision, boosting throughput while reducing labor and injury risk.
Video courtesy of AlphaOne Robotics
The RODE Depalletizes up to 800 random mixed packages an hour.
Video courtesy of AWL Automation LLC
A FANUC LR-10iA/10 sorts packages from a conveyor.
Video courtesy of AWL Automation LLC
A FANUC R‑2000iC/125L scans each random item, adapts instantly to size changes, and builds dense, stable mixed pallets in real time.
Video courtesy of AWL Automation LLC
Video courtesy of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)
A collaborative robot uses 3D vision to identify and pick randomly oriented parts from a bin using intelligent grasp planning.
Video courtesy of Pelican Robotics
Bastian Solutions’ SmartPick™ system combines AI‑based vision, robotic bin picking, and software integration for automated order fulfillment.
Video courtesy of Bastian Solutions
Robotic depalletizing systems remove individual cases, rows, or full layers from pallets and prepare products for downstream handling or repalletizing.
Video courtesy of Motion Controls Robotics Inc.
A mixed‑case depalletizing system uses a FANUC R‑1000iA/80F robot to unload diverse product SKUs from pallets for flexible downstream handling.
FANUC’s newest autonomous order fulfillment, bin transfer, and shelving system helps supply chain businesses overcome the labor shortage.
Dorabot provides integrated robotic solutions that efficiently and accurately complete the types of tasks that are repetitive, difficult and strenuous.
