Patent ID: 6866471

Claim:
A method of loading a tray in a container, the method comprising: creating a cell with a plurality of bays and an access door; determining whether the access door is open or closed; assigning each bay a location; moving a plurality of trays through the cell along a path, each tray having a type; selecting one of the plurality of trays to move off the path; when the access door is closed, grasping the selected one of the plurality of trays off the path with a robot positioned above the path; configuring the robot so that it can automatically distinguish multiple types of trays from one another; moving the robot, with the grasped tray, to the location of one bay; and instructing the robot to release the grasped tray at the location of the one bay and locate the grasped tray at the location in a position that is determined based on the type of the grasped tray.