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URBX Cube ASRS Video: Robotic 3D Storage and Retrieval System

This URBX Cube ASRS video shows how ISD’s 3D robotic storage and retrieval system solves space, throughput, and labor challenges in modern warehouses. AI-driven TowerBots navigate a high-density storage grid up to 125 feet tall, storing and retrieving totes without the aisle travel or forklift navigation required by traditional systems.

Each TowerBot delivers totes directly to fulfillment workstations through an integrated conveyor and GridBot system, handling 100+ totes per hour with an average 7-second pick time. Operators using the URBX system reach up to 500 lines per hour, while the system itself scales from a standard 168,960-tote configuration up to 504,000 totes.

This makes URBX Cube ASRS well suited for e-commerce, 3PL, retail, and manufacturing operations that need dense, flexible storage without expanding their physical footprint. Watch the full video above to see the TowerBots, GridBots, and storage grid working together in a live facility.

Read the full video transcript

0:00 The URBX three-dimensional robotic inventory storage and retrieval system represents a paradigm shift in the ASRS world. This system has been engineered to meet the escalating demand for increasing space utilization, throughput, reliability, agility, and return on investment while reducing labor and associated costs.

0:17 This system can reach 125 ft tall, while every TowerBot can execute up to 200 transactions per hour, with an average pick taking place every 7 seconds.

0:34 The URBX 3D ASRS system combines very high-density vertical storage with TowerBots to pick and deliver totes to a workstation.

  1. 0:39 Orders queue in the WMS/WES software.
  2. 0:44 A wave of orders and replenishment transactions go to the URBX system.
  3. 0:50 For replenishment, the software determines the optimal storage locations based on many criteria, including velocity, size, weight, fragility, etc.
  4. 1:01 For order picking, the software determines which orders should be picked and in which sequence, creating an optimized batch.
  5. 1:08 The system deploys TowerBots to retrieve requested items using the shortest 3D path.
  6. 1:15 The TowerBots present the totes for transportation and picking to the GridBot or conveyor system on the ground, for delivery to one of the integrated workstations.

1:22 The URBX three-dimensional, AI-powered ASRS offers a wide range of benefits to help your organization optimize its storage and retrieval processes, such as saving up to 95% of your existing floor space,

1:38 eliminating up to two-thirds of your labor, utilizing up to 125 ft of your building's height, and so many more.

1:47 For more information, or a free, no-obligation consultation on URBX three-dimensional robotic vertical ASRS systems or other automated goods-to-person solutions, please call or email ISD to schedule a time. We look forward to talking with you.