Walmart Inc.
Systems and Methods for Automatic Determination of a Packing Configuration to Pack Items in Shipping Boxes

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Abstract:

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically determine packing configurations. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for automatically determining packing configurations for packing items into shipping boxes including a plurality of human operated packing stations; a plurality of robot operated packing stations; a database; and a control circuit configured to execute one or more machine learning models to: execute a first feedback loop; provide adjusted first packing configuration to one or more of the plurality of human operated packing stations; execute a second feedback loop; and determine data corresponding to human operator deviations from the adjusted first packing configuration; and provide the adjusted first packing configuration to one or more of the plurality of human operated packing stations and the plurality of robot operated packing stations to pack additional orders of a first set of items into one or more shipping boxes.

Status:
Application
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

27 Aug 2020

Issue date:

3 Mar 2022