A system is provided. The system includes a conveyor apparatus configured for conveying a material and a water content measurement system positioned about the conveyor apparatus for determining water content in the material. A dimension characteristic measurement system for detecting one or more dimension characteristics of the material is provided and a computer device is configured to manipulate data received from the water content measurement system and the dimension characteristic measurement system to determine a water content of the material.

A delivery vehicle for autonomously delivering a plurality of packages is described. The delivery vehicle includes a set of rails and a cargo management unit slidably engaged with the set of rails. The cargo management unit is configured to engage with a package and move the package inside the delivery vehicle. The cargo management unit includes a gripping member that includes a lower claw and an upper claw. The lower claw and the upper claw are attached with each other via a pair of first line screws, and are configured to move along the pair of first line screws to secure the package. The cargo management unit further includes a second line screw configured to engage the gripping member with a first rail, and is configured to rotate the gripping member along a second line screw axis and move the gripping member vertically along the second line screw.

Movement is controlled of a plurality of container handling vehicles on a rail system arranged at least partially across a top of a framework structure of an automated storage and retrieval system, on which rail system the plurality of container handling vehicles are operable to raise storage containers from, and lower storage containers into, storage columns arranged in rows between upright members and horizontal members of the framework structure. The storage containers are also transported above the storage columns. The movement control is performed by a central operational controller which is in communication with a local controller in each container handling vehicle. The central operational controller receives data relating to a subsection of the rail system. The data includes a container handling vehicle movement threshold for the subsection. The central operational controller instructs a container handling vehicle to follow a path which takes in at least a part of the subsection. The central operational controller instructs the container handling vehicle to reduce speed and/or acceleration such that the movement of the container handling vehicle within the subsection is below the container handling vehicle movement threshold of the sub section.

The invention relates to a device for removing a closing element from a transport section, in particular a supply section, of a filling and/or closing machine, in particular for the pharmaceutical industry, using a manipulator (3), the device comprising an end effector (2), which can be connected to the manipulator (3) releasably without tools or not releasably without tools for a handling for removing the closing element (4), and a needle (20), wherein the end effector (2) has a holder (22) on which the needle (20) is attached and/or which is produced integrally with the needle (20), and/or wherein the end effector has gripper elements so that the needle (20) can be gripped by the end effector, and wherein the closing element (4) can be speared by the needle (20) and the speared closing element (4) can be removed from the transport section. The invention further relates to a method for removal of a closing element from the transport section using a needle (20), and a use of a needle (20) for removal of a closing element from a transport section of a filling and/or closing machine.

A system is provided. The system includes a conveyor apparatus configured for conveying an asphalt material and an asphalt cement measurement system positioned about the conveyor apparatus for determining asphalt cement content in the material. A dimension characteristic measurement system for detecting one or more dimension characteristics of the material is provided and a computer device is configured to manipulate data received from the asphalt cement measurement system and the dimension characteristic measurement system to determine an asphalt cement percentage (AC %) of the material.

A robot and a robot-based container storage and removal method. The robot comprises: a master control processing unit (110), a pick-and-place mechanism (120) and a marker detection unit (130), wherein according to target storage and removal position information of a target inventory container, the master control processing unit (110) controls a robot body to move to a first horizontal position and controls the pick-and-place mechanism (120) to move to a first height position; when the robot body and the pick-and-place mechanism (120) stop moving, the marker detection unit (130) determines a target pick-and-place marker from a target inventory support to which the target inventory container belongs; and the master control processing unit (110) also calibrates the position of the pick-and-place mechanism (120) according to the position of the target pick-and-place marker, so as to control the calibrated pick-and-place mechanism (120) to perform a storage operation or a removal operation on the target inventory container. By means of the solution, a pick-and-place position of a pick-and-place mechanism (120) of the robot can be precisely positioned and moved, such that the pick-and-place mechanism (120) can quickly and accurately store or remove a target inventory container.