Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for automated loading and retrieval of items. In various embodiments, items are received at a loading station where identification data may be captured for each item and handling instructions may be generated. In some embodiments, a label having indicia associated with the item may be generated and affixed to the item. The items may then be deposited through an access door into the vehicle identified in the handling instructions. Once the items are loaded into the access door, an automated load/unload device may deposit the item in the appropriate storage location. The automated load/unload device may also retrieve and rearrange items as desired.

A harvesting machine includes a header configured to gather harvested material into the harvesting machine during a harvesting operation, a conveyance subsystem configured to convey the harvested material from the harvesting machine to a receiving vehicle during the harvesting operation, an image capture system comprising at least one optical sensor, and a control system configured to determine a position of the receiving vehicle relative to the harvesting machine, determine an image magnification factor based on the determined position, and display, on a display device, an image of a portion of the receiving vehicle based on the image magnification factor.

A control unit performs first loading control that is to be performed when a target article that has been determined by a determination unit as being an article that is in an appropriate orientation is to be loaded onto a first supporting member in the appropriate orientation, and second loading control that is to be performed when a target article that has been determined by the determination unit as being an article that is in an inappropriate orientation is to be loaded onto the first supporting member in the appropriate orientation. The first loading control is performed to control a loading operation unit to suck and support a first sucking-target surface of a target article that is supported by the second supporting member, from above, then move a sucking portion, and thereafter release the target article from the state of being sucked by the sucking portion, and the second loading control is performed to control the loading operation unit to perform an orientation changing operation, and thereafter release the target article from the state of being sucked by the sucking portion when the target article is located immediately above the first supporting member and the first sucking-target surface faces upward.

A system includes a conveyor and a computing device in communication with the conveyor. The conveyor has a plurality of carriers that are moved about and between at least one automated prescription picking system and at least one automated prescription packing system. Each carrier of the plurality of carriers is configured to receive at least one prescription from the at least one automated prescription picking system and deliver the at least one prescription to the at least one automated prescription packing system. The computing device includes at least one processor and a memory in communication with the at least one processor. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: associate an identifier with each prescription of the at least one prescription; and track contents of each carrier of the plurality of carriers.

A system for delivering storage containers comprises a carrier framework for integration into a cargo compartment of a vehicle, and a transfer platform, wherein the carrier framework is a spatial framework configured to store a plurality of storage containers to be delivered in a plurality of individual storage spaces forming a carrier grid having vertical carrier columns, wherein the carrier framework comprises at least one access device configured to selectively present the individual storage containers received by and stored in the carrier framework to a user outside the carrier framework or outside a vehicle into which the carrier framework is integrated, wherein the transfer platform is connectable to or integratable into a framework structure of a storage grid of an automated storage and retrieval system to form a cantilever structure at the storage grid, beneath which the carrier framework or a vehicle, into which the carrier framework is integrated, is placeable, wherein the transfer platform has a transfer grid having a plurality of transfer grid cells, for receiving a storage container from or for sending a storage container into the framework structure of the storage grid, wherein the transfer grid cells are open at their bottom, and wherein the carrier grid and the transfer grid correlate in their horizontal cell arrangement and cell size, such that, when the carrier columns are arranged beneath the transfer grid cells, storage containers can be lowered from the transfer platform into the carrier framework.

Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for automated loading and retrieval of items. In various embodiments, items are received at a loading station where identification data may be captured for each item and handling instructions may be generated. In some embodiments, a label having indicia associated with the item may be generated and affixed to the item. The items may then be deposited through an access door into the vehicle identified in the handling instructions. Once the items are loaded into the access door, an automated load/unload device may deposit the item in the appropriate storage location. The automated load/unload device may also retrieve and rearrange items as desired.

Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for automated loading and retrieval of items. In various embodiments, items are received at a loading station where identification data may be captured for each item and handling instructions may be generated. In some embodiments, a label having indicia associated with the item may be generated and affixed to the item. The items may then be deposited through an access door into the vehicle identified in the handling instructions. Once the items are loaded into the access door, an automated load/unload device may deposit the item in the appropriate storage location. The automated load/unload device may also retrieve and rearrange items as desired.

A loose fill insulation delivery machine can include a hopper configured to receive loose fill insulation; a counter configured to determine an amount of loose fill insulation used; and a display system configured to determine service part replacement. A method of determining service part replacement in a loose fill insulation delivery machine can include operations for tracking a run time of the insulation blowing machine; determining service part replacement based on tracked run time; and displaying service part replacement information.

Provided is a path planning method of a handling device, a handling device, and an electronic device. The method includes: based on position information of a target goods placement area in a truck bed and an initial position, determining a handling path corresponding to the target goods placement area, where the handling path includes a first handling path including a turn-around position and a loading-unloading position corresponding to the target goods placement area; sending the handling path to a target handling device such that the target handling device, based on the first handling path, travels to the turn-around position in a forward mode, and rotates at the turn-around position to enable a bearing assembly of the rotated target handling device to face toward the target goods placement area, and then travels, in a backward mode, to the loading-unloading position to perform goods loading or unloading operations.

System and method for unloading a container of its content, comprising an automated storage and retrieval system, wherein the system comprises a rail system comprising a first set of parallel rails arranged to guide movement of a container handling vehicle in a first direction across the top of a framework structure, and a second set of parallel rails arranged perpendicular to the first set of rails to guide movement of the container handling vehicle in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, the first and second sets of parallel rails dividing the rail system into a plurality of grid cells, the framework structure comprises upright members and horizontal members, at least one container handling vehicle configured to operate on the rail system, wherein the at least one container handling vehicle is provided with at least one orientation sensor configured to measure at least one orientation parameter of the sensor in a three-dimensional cartesian reference system, a central control unit configured to receive, transmit and process data signals of the container handling vehicle and to receive and process data signals of the sensor, at least one container comprised of four side walls and a bottom creating an open box structure, means for transporting the container to an unloading station where the content of the container is emptied by gravity wherein the unloading station comprises a container tipping device that tips the container around at least one axis, emptying the content.