| 摘要 |
An automated facility for storing and then distributing articles. The facility includes a housing for receiving closed shipping containers, and further means for retrieving articles from inside the shipping containers and distributing the articles to an output of the housing. The further means includes a sensing means for determining the position of at least a portion of an outside surface of each one of a plurality of closed shipping containers that have entered into the housing, and an automated means to form an opening in each of the shipping containers. A computer controlled retrieving means is also provided in the housing for entering into selected ones of the shipping containers by passing through the formed opening so as to retrieve an article from inside one of the shipping containers, which article is then moved to an output of the housing.
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