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Originally Posted by jamincan
That's really cool. There are automated warehouses that use similar systems, but with skids instead. One down the street from my workpace is a massive ~10 story building, that is basically a skin over racks from floor to ceiling. I looked it up later (the company is Conestoga Cold Storage), and they use similar types of robots the height of the whole building to automatically retrieve/store skids. I guess the system is especially advantageous for cold storage because they can lower the surface area of the building and keep cooling costs down.
Image from when they were adding an expansion:
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They built a similar system in Calgary. I wondered what that blue scaffolding was for. Thanks for the info.
Edit: Curious if Attabotics (a Calgary company) was responsible for the robots.