Robotics and automation supplier Fanuc America at the Modex trade show showed five robotic systems that streamline box handling, scanning, picking, palletizing, depalletizing, and autonomous material movement. The platforms use artificial intelligence (AI)‑enhanced vision and intelligent perception tools to identify products, adapt to mixed workloads, and make real-time decisions in dynamic warehouse environments, the company said.
One of the new demos showed a high‑payload CRX‑30iA collaborative robot arm mounted on an OTTO 600 autonomous mobile robot (AMR) to pick, weigh, transport, palletize, and sort boxes. Another demo featured a CRX-10iA collaborative robot that can be trained on the warehouse floor without using any computer code to do label inspection and barcode reading using a 3DV/200 vision sensor.
In another case, an M-10/12-14D industrial robot arm used 2D iRVision cameras to read bin barcodes, a 3DV/600 sensor to find pickable items, and an integrated radio‑frequency identification (RFID) reader to identify items, pick‑and‑place units, and consolidate totes. And an M-710/50-26D robot arm performed palletizing and depalletizing by using a 3DV/1600 3D vision sensor and FANUC iPC Box, which enables FANUC’s AI Box Locator to detect and locate boxes for precise handling.
