Material Handling With Toys
Today one of my colleagues forwarded me a video that i just had to share with you guys. How many of you loved Legos as a kid? I know I did. I spent countless hours on the floor building a race car or a fort for my army men.
Well, not surprisingly, the folks over at Lego Mindstorms love to play with Legos too. Only when they play with them, they don’t mess around. Today i came across a video that proves just that. The creative minds at Lego Mindstorms created a complete WMS out of Legos and some other items.
It uses Microsoft BizTalk, Windows Workflow Foundation and C# to stitch everything together. Watch the demo of the system in action where a SMS message from a cell phone activates the system, the first robot grabs a box from the warehouse and delivers it to the second robot which drives the package to its destination.
Pretty cool huh? To watch a video of the construction process and the finished product, check out below.
