CarouselAI™
Automated robotic picking workstation solution powered by AI.
Get a grip on your operations with automated robotic picking.
Today, e-commerce and customer fulfillment has to be faster, better, more efficient than ever before. In a volatile labor market, operations are being stretched beyond capacity with overwhelming demand and growing customer expectations.
Automated robotic picking delivers round the clock performance and consistency, freeing up your team to work on higher value tasks. And it doesn't need breaks or overtime pay.
AI-powered efficiency
Maximize productivity, minimize costs
Work smarter, not harder — without the extra labor costs. Give your workforce a helping hand with CarouselAI™. An autonomous workstation powered by AI, it enables reliable, high precision piece-picking with an advanced robotic piece picking arm.
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95% coverage across apparel, grocery, general merchandise, industrial, and healthcare
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Fully autonomous picking
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Continuously optimizes performance & picking efficiency as you grow with no human intervention.
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Plug ‘n’ play solution
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No complex technical setup.
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No advanced training needed to operate.
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Rapid deployment.
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+16 hrs
Uninterrupted operations
Non-stop picking
+95%
SKU coverage across apparel, grocery, general merchandise, industrial, and pharma
Works with diverse inventory types
Peak performance
Always optimized picking efficiency
CarouselAI provides consistent, reliable picking, with uninterrupted performance of up to 650 items per hour, even for 16 hours or more.
Advanced self-learning capabilities streamline operations by automatically adapting to new SKUs and inventory changes without human intervention.
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Streamlined operation with no manual data input
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New SKUs don't need manual data input or training
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Advanced AI with real-time optimization
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Fuses real-time sensor data with advanced AI models.
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Learns and optimize handling for different weights, textures, packaging, etc.
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High precision with visual data
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Primary Perception Module offers advanced visual data analysis.
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Optimize grasping points for different SKUs to reduce errors such as double-picking or dropped items.
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Native barcode scanning adds item verification directly at the workstation, confirming item identity as part of the pick.
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How it works
CarouselAI combines our popular CarouselPort with an automated robotic piece picking arm. Powered by advanced AI technology, it leverages real-time sensor data and visual data analysis to adapt and learn.
Click on the diagram below to learn more about the components.
The Al-driven "brain" behind CarouselAl, fusing Al models with realtime sensor data.
Advanced self-learning offers reasoning through errors to optimize efficiency & maximizes SKU coverage.
Optimal grip strategies & enhanced precision for uninterrupted picking.
Ensures efficient swapping between different suction cup sizes for picking up different items.
The "hand" responsible for picking items from Bins.
Features advanced suction & vacuum techniques with optimal grip detection.
Doesn't require a perfect seal for a secure grasp, offering safe handling for irregular shaped & bulky items.
Intelligent vision analyzes visual data with bird's eye view of the Bin.
Ensures accurate item selection & determines optimal grasp point for SKUs
Reads and verifies item barcodes at the workstation as part of the pick cycle. Confirms item identity for traceability and compliance-sensitive workflows without additional verification hardware.
RPC software
The Al-driven "brain" behind CarouselAl, fusing Al models with realtime sensor data.
Advanced self-learning offers reasoning through errors to optimize efficiency & maximizes SKU coverage.
Optimal grip strategies & enhanced precision for uninterrupted picking.
Autoswap
Ensures efficient swapping between different suction cup sizes for picking up different items.
SpectrumGripper®
The "hand" responsible for picking items from Bins.
Features advanced suction & vacuum techniques with optimal grip detection.
Doesn't require a perfect seal for a secure grasp, offering safe handling for irregular shaped & bulky items.
Primary Perception module
Intelligent vision analyzes visual data with bird's eye view of the Bin.
Ensures accurate item selection & determines optimal grasp point for SKUs
Barcode scanner
Reads and verifies item barcodes at the workstation as part of the pick cycle. Confirms item identity for traceability and compliance-sensitive workflows without additional verification hardware.
The Al-driven "brain" behind CarouselAl, fusing Al models with realtime sensor data.
Advanced self-learning offers reasoning through errors to optimize efficiency & maximizes SKU coverage.
Optimal grip strategies & enhanced precision for uninterrupted picking.
Ensures efficient swapping between different suction cup sizes for picking up different items.
The "hand" responsible for picking items from Bins.
Features advanced suction & vacuum techniques with optimal grip detection.
Doesn't require a perfect seal for a secure grasp, offering safe handling for irregular shaped & bulky items.
Intelligent vision analyzes visual data with bird's eye view of the Bin.
Ensures accurate item selection & determines optimal grasp point for SKUs
Reads and verifies item barcodes at the workstation as part of the pick cycle. Confirms item identity for traceability and compliance-sensitive workflows without additional verification hardware.
RPC software
The Al-driven "brain" behind CarouselAl, fusing Al models with realtime sensor data.
Advanced self-learning offers reasoning through errors to optimize efficiency & maximizes SKU coverage.
Optimal grip strategies & enhanced precision for uninterrupted picking.
Autoswap
Ensures efficient swapping between different suction cup sizes for picking up different items.
SpectrumGripper®
The "hand" responsible for picking items from Bins.
Features advanced suction & vacuum techniques with optimal grip detection.
Doesn't require a perfect seal for a secure grasp, offering safe handling for irregular shaped & bulky items.
Primary Perception module
Intelligent vision analyzes visual data with bird's eye view of the Bin.
Ensures accurate item selection & determines optimal grasp point for SKUs
Barcode scanner
Reads and verifies item barcodes at the workstation as part of the pick cycle. Confirms item identity for traceability and compliance-sensitive workflows without additional verification hardware.
Built-in control
Barcode scanning for item verification and traceability
Native barcode scanning adds item verification directly at the workstation, helping operations confirm the correct item before fulfillment.
Built into CarouselAI, it supports traceability and compliance-sensitive workflows while reducing the need for separate verification hardware.
Benefits
Automated verification
at the point of picking for each item
Track & trace
support for traceability and compliance requirements
Seamless integration
with reduced reliance on additional scanning equipment
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Available insights include:
Total item picks
Picks per hour
Pick success rate
Uptime
Manual intervention rate
Additional operational metrics
Patented gripper technology
Advanced machine learning adapts & optimizes in real-time to new SKUs, different weights, textures, or packaging types.
Optimizes for diverse SKUs
Advanced suction and vacuum techniques, alongside multiple suction cup sizes. Handles huge range of product types without slowing down efficiency for awkward and bulky items.
Intelligent vision
Overhead view of the Bin provides live visual data analysis for optimal gripping strategies and accurate picking. Learns & optimizes handling for new SKUs.
Automated item induction
Items are inducted automatically from the inbound flow into AutoStore Bins, supporting continuous and predictable operations.
Automated inventory validation
Robotic cycle counting validates inventory automatically, keeping stock records accurate without pulling staff off other work.
Open APIs
Easily integrate with your WMS and other key systems. Flexible interoperability to connect with almost any third-party technology.
Technical Specification
Dimensions |
L: 2.9 m / W: 2.3 m / H: 2.5 m |
Weight |
1,300kg |
Avg. weight distribution |
100kg/m2 |
Inbound Container Specification |
AutoStore Bin (all sizes) presented through CarouselPort™ |
Picking throughput |
650 units per hour |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Can we upgrade an existing CarouselPort to CarouselAI?
Yes. Existing customers with a CarouselPort (4.0 version) can retrofit it with the CarouselAI Upgrade. This provides the additional hardware and software components used to build the CarouselAI solution.
CarouselAI Upgrade can be ordered through the AutoStore integration partner who installed and manages your AutoStore system. Contact them for further details.
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What is the maximum throughput rate of CarouselAI?
A single CarouselAI workstation can perform with a maximum throughput rate of up to 650 units picked per hour (UPH):
- Can operate non-stop for 16 hours or more.
- Each additional CarouselAI workstations will increase your maximum picking capacity by an extra 650 UPH.
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What are the physical specifications for items to be eligible for picking with CarouselAI?
CarouselAI is designed to handle the vast majority of items commonly found in apparel, grocery, general merchandise, industrial, and pharmaceutical warehouse operations.
Maximum item weight: 6 kg
Supported item types:
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Securely closed bags, boxes, bottles, blister packs, clamshells, envelopes, tubes.
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Cardboard or other boxes that are taped closed, have interlocking tabs or otherwise, secured lids.
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Securely grouped multipacks of the above.
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Grooved and uneven surface items.
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Porous items.
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Which operations benefit most from CarouselAI's barcode scanning?
Native barcode scanning verifies item identity at the workstation as part of the pick cycle, so it's most valuable wherever a mispick carries real cost or a regulator expects an item-level record.
That typically means healthcare and regulated goods handling, where traceability is a compliance requirement rather than a nice-to-have; grocery, where allergen and date-code accuracy matters; and high-value general merchandise, where the cost of a single incorrect shipment outweighs the throughput spent verifying it. Operations running mixed or visually similar SKUs also benefit, since verification catches the errors that are hardest to spot by eye.
Because scanning is native to the workstation, these workflows are supported without a separate verification station or additional scanning hardware.