ISD – Integrated Systems Design – has unveiled a new cube-based automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) designed to help warehouses increase capacity and throughput as operators face rising real-estate costs, labor shortages, and growing e-commerce demands.
The URBX robotic system stores inventory in a dense cube formation, eliminating the aisles required for conventional crane- or lift-based ASRS.
ISD says the system can store three to four times more inventory in the same footprint as traditional racking, reaching heights of up to 125 feet to use vertical space that typically goes unused.
Robots operate inside the cube structure, moving horizontally and vertically without dedicated travel lanes. Each robot can handle loads of up to 100 pounds and complete up to 500 case or tote presentations per hour – equivalent to 1,000 combined storage and retrieval cycles. Multiple robots can operate at once, allowing throughput to scale with demand. [Read more…] about ISD launches high-density robotic storage system to tackle warehouse space and labor pressures
