AirRob gains enhancements at LogiMAT

At the LogiMAT 2025 trade exhibition Libiao Robotics is introducing several new enhancements to its award-winning AirRob automated warehouse storage system.

Whilst principally used as a means to boost a warehouse’s storage and picking performance – AirRob has been widely deployed across Europe, the US and Asia by household-name retailers and eCommerce businesses – the system can now additionally be used to double-check stock in a warehouse at those times when it is not required to perform its primary function.

Now, with AirRob’s enhanced capabilities, it can be set to work at the end of a shift, when it would otherwise have been decommissioned for the night, and get to work consolidating the remaining stock with the recorded amount. The AirRobs move totes out of the racking and place them on one of the fleet of floorbots, which then take the totes to a RFID scan tunnel to map and record its accurate contents. The system can be set to perform this task autonomously – all that’s required is a remote software update – thus saving considerable labour when ensuring accuracy of stock.

Libiao’s team of warehouse robotics design experts have introduced greater functionality at this point of the warehouse operation. The result is that the workstations have become multi-functional, offering the opportunity to carry out additional activities, including:

Decanting – removing incoming merchandise from its packaging, placing it into a tote, and sending it to storage.

Consolidation – combining more than one SKU into a tote to optimise storage density.

Cycle-count – enabling the warehouse operative to call forward totes to visually check the inventory.

Exceeding – if slow-moving items are taking up tote space, they can be reallocated to be placed on pallets outside of the storage grid.

Furthermore, when required, a workstation can be adapted to handle returns, with the addition of an additional terminal and hand-held scanner.

With thousands of bots in operation at live customer sites around the world, Libiao technology is enhancing warehouse flows in a wide variety of facilities. It is through the capture and analysis of this data that Libiao’s engineers can apply upgrades to the software and algorithms that control the robotics to improve efficiency even further, without the need for any hardware add-on.

Libiao has introduced a system that protects personnel from moving devices whilst having minimal detrimental effect on ongoing warehouse operations.

Using a system of gates fitted with safety interlocks, robots operating in an aisle are temporarily disabled when a gate is opened, and will restart when an ‘all clear’ message is detected. Unlike other systems that shut down the whole operation in a particular area, or require expensive detectors fitted to every piece moving equipment, the Libiao solution is cost-effective and easy to fit, and can be assigned to individual aisles without affecting the rest of the operation.

AirRob is widely praised for its swift implementation, as it requires virtually no infrastructural modifications to a warehouse and can operate optimally on standard warehouse racking. Looking closely at the timeline from initial consultation to go-live, Libiao’s engineers identified a way of shortening that even further. With the introduction of AirDesigner, Libiao’s consultants and partners can now design a AirRob system for clients faster, marking a considerable enhancement to an already fast-turnaround robotic solution.

Not only can warehouse designers now visualise more accurately a proposed installation, but the efficient new AirDesigner tool can also automatically generate an equipment list, removing an often laborious element of the pre-installation process.

Libiao Robotics will bring a strong team of engineers and consultants to its LogiMAT stand (1GA37).

 The post AirRob gains enhancements at LogiMAT first appeared on Warehouse & Logistics News.