Patent ID: 11860605
Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A mobile assembly apparatus comprising:
a cabinet structure including:
a frame having an interior,
a work surface that is configured to support assembly of items thereon, and
a plurality of wheels disposed at a bottom side of the cabinet structure;

a power supply coupled to the cabinet structure;
a plurality of sensors including at least one imaging device and at least one scanning device;
a hardware dispenser coupled to the cabinet structure and configured to store a plurality of hardware containment pods with hardware for assembly of a plurality of items suitable for assembly at the cabinet structure, each of the plurality of items being assembled with hardware from the hardware dispenser from unassembled component parts to form an assembled item constituting a retail product; and
a computing device equipped with a processor and communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and configured to execute an assembly validation module that when executed,
receives scan data from the scanning device from a scan of a machine-readable identifier associated with an item being assembled,
identifies the item being assembled from among the plurality of items based on the scan data,
receives assembly instructions for the identified item to form an assembled item from its unassembled component parts,
instructs the hardware dispenser to dispense assembly hardware based on the assembly instructions for the identified item,
monitors progress of an assembly of the item using assembly data received from the at least one imaging device related to a step of assembly, and
validates the assembly step based on the assembly data and the assembly instructions.