While autonomous tuggers alleviate the need for a manufacturer to staff tugger drivers and also upskill tugger drivers to handle more complex tasks, there is still labor required to transfer totes from workcells or lines to tugger carts.

Apollo, our general-purpose humanoid robot, can work in conjunction with autonomous tuggers to fully automate the kit or tote-based lineside or workcell delivery process and eliminate the need for humans to manually transfer totes to lines or workcells from tugger carts. This enables line or workcell operators to work without interruption or the upskilling of lower skilled labor assigned to service multiple line or workcell positions.

As Apollo is a general purpose robot, it can handle different tasks is a manufacturing plant and task switch throughout the day.

While there are a million forms of special purpose automation that do one or two tasks, Apollo will be able to do millions of tasks, especially those that humans don’t want to do.