Patent ID: 7515990

Claim:
An article management system for managing articles in a given space, comprising: a robot for executing a handling job for an article; robot controlling means for making said robot execute the handling job in accordance with a job instruction; sensing means for detecting a state of the space; article identifying means for identifying, when an article is handled by a movable body, said handled article in response to a detection result obtained by said sensing means; article handling subject identifying means for identifying, when an article is handled by a movable body, an article handling subject that handles said article in response to the detection result obtained by said sensing means; a database for storing information of handling rights set with respect to the articles; handling right determining means for determining, on the basis of said information stored in said database, whether or not said article handling subject has a handling right of said article in response to an identification result about said article obtained by said article identifying means and an identification result about said article handling subject obtained by said article handling subject identifying means; and handling right setting/changing means for setting and/or changing the handling rights and storing the handling rights in said database, wherein when said movable body that handles said article is said robot, said article handling subject identifying means identifies a subject having issued the job instruction as said article handling subject that handles said article.