US 11,794,344 B2
Robot utilization system and transport robot
Jiro Goto, Seto (JP); Satoshi Okamoto, Nagoya (JP); Terumi Ukai, Toyokawa (JP); Tetsuya Taira, Nagakute (JP); Daisaku Honda, Kasugai (JP); Masato Endo, Chofu (JP); and Takashi Hayashi, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/66,648.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-188879 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0107159 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 9/1679 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 13/006 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robot utilization system that uses a plurality of transport robots, each of the plurality of transport robots comprising:
a traveling mechanism including wheels configured to have a traveling function;
a main body supported by the traveling mechanism and configured to receive products; and
an information processor configured to specify the products received by the main body, wherein
the plurality of transport robots includes a first transport robot configured to perform purchase process on a product to be purchased received by the main body and a second transport robot configured to perform a return process on a product to be returned received by the main body, and
during the return process, the information processor transmits a product ID of the product to be returned to a server, causes the server to execute a return process and receives a result of the return process from the server, wherein
upon the product IDs of products received by the main body in the first transport robot satisfying a predetermined condition, the second transport robot approaches the first transport robot.