Abstract: An automatic battery swapping station, for an automated guided vehicle robot, includes: a housing closure with a narrowed opening forming access from inside the housing closure to the battery of the automated guided vehicle bot outside the automatic battery swapping station; a robotic transfer mechanism having a drive section and an end effector configured to grip the battery so that the battery is moved by the robotic transfer mechanism; and a battery storage inside the housing closure, and where the robotic transfer mechanism is arranged to move between at least one of the battery storage locations and outside the automatic battery swapping station so as to swap the battery of the automated guided vehicle robot outside the automatic battery swapping station with a stored battery in the at least one of the battery storage locations through the narrowed opening.

Abstract: An autonomous logistics vehicle bot including a vehicle frame, a drive section operably connected to the vehicle frame, a payload bed disposed on the vehicle frame and arranged to stably hold goods payload units, where the payload bed has a support surface, disposed to contact and support each of the goods payload units in the payload bed, where the payload bed has more than one discrete payload holding sections configured to separate and distinct from each other, each configured to contain therein at least one goods payload unit separate and distinct from each other goods payload unit seated on the support surface of the payload bed and where traverse of the support surface relative to the payload bed, commonly repositions each discrete payload holding section in the payload bed, from a first position to a second position different than the first position.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can also remove plate sheets from an interleaf sheet, and transport the plate sheet for subsequent imaging.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can also remove plate sheets from an interleaf sheet, and transport the plate sheet for subsequent imaging.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can also remove plate sheets from an interleaf sheet, and transport the plate sheet for subsequent imaging.

Abstract: A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of the image to extend from a leading edge of the medium to a trailing edge of the medium.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a guide which transports a recording medium and a roller which holds the recording medium in place to pull the recording medium through an imaging plane defined by a surface of the roller. A device forms an image onto the recording medium at the imaging plane. The roller is a vacuum roller that uses a vacuum produced at the imaging plane to hold the recording medium in place during transport and imaging.