For the first time since its creation, Meanwhile has created a robot based on market rather than customer requirements: The XuP-Stacker, a robot with a storage space capable of picking up and depositing on any type of surface.
Paris, Monday March 25, 2024 – At Global Industrie, one of the world’s largest industrial trade fairs, Meanwhile unveiled a preview of a new mobile robot concept, the XuP-Stacker: a robot capable of transporting several containers of various sizes on a single journey, optimizing your company’s intralogistics flows.
“We were looking to complete our range of mobile robots with a brand-new model that could respond to a market issue. This is the first time we’ve carried out a market study by interviewing several users about their vision of autonomous mobile robotics and their intralogistics transport issues.” – Noémie Kuiesine, Marketing Manager at Meanwhile.
At the end of these studies, several needs were identified and prioritized, enabling Meanwhile teams to design a robot as close as possible to the customer’s requirements:
Meanwhile has also innovated on this model by deploying a lidar detection system integrated into the gripper.
“This Lidar detection system is even more flexible than the precise positioning system we use on our other robot models. The XuP-Stacker no longer detects the fixed station, but the box, regardless of its size and position.” – Thomas Flahault, IT Developer at Meanwhile.
Like all Meanwhile robots, the XuP-Stacker is equipped with an intelligent navigation system based on reactive trajectory-following and obstacle-avoidance algorithms. This navigation system enables it to operate in dynamic environments open to the public.
This model will be presented to industrial customers for warehouse parts transport and line-side supply. It will also be used by healthcare establishments to transport sample containers to laboratories, or to restock wards from the warehouse.
Find out more about the XuP-Stacker by downloading the product data sheet from our website.
About Meanwhile – A specialist in autonomous mobile robotics, Meanwhile offers turnkey solutions dedicated to transporting goods across infrastructures such as healthcare facilities and manufacturing industries.
Created around a common vision – the consideration of men and women – Meanwhile offers “For Human” solutions, so that they can focus on tasks with high added value.
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