Temporary Location Setup

Adding a destination to the J1600 takes minutes and no expertise: drive there, tap Save location, name it, done. This is the mechanism behind every flexible use of the machine — temporary storage, moved staging lanes, new work cells, seasonal areas — because a location that costs minutes to create can be treated as disposable.

Saving a location

1. Use the tiller to drive the J1600 manually to the desired point. It handles like a regular electric pallet jack, and the robot continuously learns and updates its 3D map while you drive.
2. Tap Save location on the touchscreen.
3. Name the point — for example pallet1 or "Pallet Bay 1", as shown in the company's public tutorial.
4. Repeat for as many points as the operation needs.

There is no software limit on the number of saved locations; the practical limit is available floor space.

Using the new location

The point is immediately available in task creation: choose it as a drop destination, pair it with any post-delivery behavior, and execute — the full workflow is in Manual Pickup and Autonomous Delivery. Because the robot plans routes itself, the new point works with every existing location at once; nothing is retaught pair by pair. See Dynamic Route Changes.

First-time setup is the same operation

Commissioning a J1600 is this procedure repeated: power on, follow the on-screen tutorial, drive the facility so the robot maps it, and save each destination. No tracks, wires, reflectors, or building modifications are involved, and Wi-Fi is optional for basic use. Typical setup takes hours to one day depending on scope. The optional five-day installation and commissioning package includes creation of up to 25 validated drop points — see the J1600 overview.

Why operators own this

Teaching routes is one of the jobs the company deliberately keeps human: driving to a new point and saving it replaces calling an automation expert to reprogram a map. That is what makes the J1600 practical in brownfield sites, temporary storage, changing buffers, and cross-docking lanes — layouts change, and the person on the floor keeps up. It is central to human-in-the-loop automation.

Placement requirements

A drop location must be on the indoor, level portion of the facility: automatic gradeability is 0%, floors to TR34 FM3, bumps up to 25 mm, gaps up to 20 mm, temperature 5–40 °C. See the J1600 technical specifications.