Autonomous Shelf Scanning Robots | Marvelmind

0:01 Hello, colleagues. Today I'd like to talk about automated scanning and inspection. As you know, we produce robots and drones, but mostly we focus on precisely positioning the positioning system for the robots and for the drones. Our robots are small and medium-sized robots for delivery of goods from point A to point B. But we very quickly realized that people using the robots are not for delivering, but mostly for inspection. So they take off the shelves and install some sort of equipment—sensing equipment, scanning equipment—and said, okay, if people are using our delivery robots not for boxes delivering but for delivering or inspection of warehouses or assembly plants, why not use it at the same time?

1:01 Many of our customers are using our positioning system for drones flying inside the warehouse, scanning the barcodes and QR codes in order to identify the lost pallets that have been there for years already. And of course, it's lovely for customers of ours. But when we think about something practical and realistic—to fly drones in a warehouse is a complex task. To fly drones autonomously in a warehouse is a very complex task. To fly drones routinely to perform something practical, like scanning barcodes, is a very difficult task. Because the drone will look something like this, so you'll have a lot of things, a lot of wires, and it could be several kilos. And as you

2:00 see, it can be simply fragile. So the cost of error with drones is simply high. A small mistake—either by the operator, by the system, by the positioning system, by the drone, or by the power supply—will cost dearly. And as a result, you know, lost drone, some danger, many bad things happen. So we love drones again. We do love drones and we do supply drones, and now, okay, we do supply the positioning system for other people's drones, and sooner or later we will supply our own drones because people are coming to us and saying, "Oh, where's your drone?" It will be, it's coming. But if you want something practical today for a very pragmatic operation—to scan barcodes, to connect it to your warehouse management system or to your

2:56 enterprise resource system—then the simple solution could exist. And the simple solution is basically a robotic solution. And there are quite a few on the market, but we differ slightly from what is offering. So our solution is even more to the ground, even more pragmatic. So we take our existing robot—it's either robot Boxy, a small one, or robot V100—and we install a mast. It can be a mechanical mast or electrical mast, depending on the customer. And why I'm asking is because we have a few ongoing cases where exactly this configuration is more appealing, because these customers played with the drones already. They played with the drones in real warehouses with real end customers. Because those—our customers are typically not the end

3:56 customers but the robotics company, drone company, or integrators. They played with the drones with mixed results. The drones, because they're costly, and again, crashes are expensive and mistakes are expensive, and it doesn't look extremely reliable. So people—the end customers—warehouses basically—or they want something very, very, very practical and very pragmatic. And this is our solution. What is very practical and pragmatic? So we take our existing robot, V100. So this is the base of the robot, V100, which you can see driving around. So this is V100. It has a base around 70 by 70 centimeters, is about 2 meters high. We remove everything. We install instead of shelves, we install a mast. Once again, depending on the customer, it's either a mechanical mast, which is less

4:54 expensive, but then it always stays there, or electrical mast. And then, when the robot is driving, it has cameras, and these cameras are placed on each level of the shelves. So it means that when the robot is moving, it's scanning both directions at the same time. So the robot is moving slowly because, again, it's a pretty tall thing—up to 12 meters high. My fault, it's a pretty tall thing. But it does things in parallel, and this is exactly our benefit because we use existing indoor positioning system, which we have been using for years and our customers have been using for years. So these are the beacons. So these small things is our positioning system. So this is the beacon, which can be stationary, can be mobile—doesn't matter. So it's universal—Super-Beacon. And then

5:51 the mast again, pretty proven mast installed. We power everything from our existing robot. There's additional batteries—up to 8 hours shift, it can be 16 hours shift, it can be even more if you really need more. It's not a big deal. And then, of course, we slightly increase the base. So, for example, if I have a width of 3 meters, then we increase up to 2.5 meters. So there is some margin on the left and right to be on the safe side. But at the same time, it's pretty stable, safe, and autonomous solution. Of course, it has all the typical robotic elements, like LIDARs for obstacle detection and avoidance. It, of course, can drive autonomously. But it's not only delivering something, it is scanning. So we are not shopping here, but each layer has a separate computer with

6:49 separate barcode and QR code recognition. So it means that it can tune for your particular need and task. And it's not only the camera, okay, it's just simplified to make it very, very, very easy to understand. But the cameras are equipped with computers. Each camera has its own barcode and QR code recognition and its own lighting, because lighting is very, very important. So it means that we do not rely on your warehouse lighting. We use our own lighting, and everything is integrated into a single solution that does a very, very, very simple task. It drives autonomously, scans, sends the data—where it found, what the scan is—and then it sends data with the location data, because it's using location data for driving. And then your system is comparing what is currently there with what is supposed to be and flags

7:47 —typically we do not do integration. It's either our integrator partner doing the integration with your warehouse management system, or your own IT people are doing this. But our message is very, very simple: if you want something very, very, very practical and pragmatic—like scanning barcodes and finding your lost items or finding what is lost in your warehouse—this is a very, very, very pragmatic solution that can be implemented today and is being implemented with a couple of customers as we speak. So if you're interested, send us an email, typically to info@marvelmind.com, and we will be happy to answer all your questions. This thing is customizable, as all our robots, but we do have something already which is being delivered to other people and you may be interested as well. Thank you very much.