Patent ID: 9623569
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B25J,B65G

Claim:
1. An autonomous device for loading and unloading trucks, the autonomous device comprising: a mobile body; a robot arm coupled to the mobile body to load and unload articles; a body conveyor system attached to the mobile body for conveying articles, the conveyor movable in a first direction to feed articles to the robot arm for loading, and movable in a second direction to move articles unloaded thereon out of the truck, and a manipulator attached to a movable end of the robot arm and maneuverable within the truck, the manipulator for picking up a row of articles in a first orientation at a first location and for placing the picked-up row of articles on a second location in a second orientation, wherein the manipulator can be configured to match the first orientation of the articles at the first location for picking up the row of articles therefrom and can be reconfigured to match the orientation of the picked-up row of articles to the second orientation for placement onto the second location, wherein the row of articles at the first location is a horizontal row and the row of articles for placement onto the second location is an irregular row of articles and the manipulator is configured to match with the horizontal row of articles for pick up, and reconfigured to match the first orientation of the manipulator and the picked-up row of articles carried thereon to the second location for placement thereon.