[Animats]

This is much like a palletizer. Here's a mixed-case cage palletizer, which fills up wire cages open on one side with various boxes.[1] For rectangular boxes, palletizing is a solved problem with many companies selling systems.

Irregular items are a problem. In the baggage handling video, the last bag, the soft one with straps, is sticking out after being placed in the baggage container. That's the same problem which keeps Amazon from totally automating picking. They keep trying, but nothing works well enough yet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-6QaLd3VY

[dmillard]

Yep! We're obviously operating alongside a very well established world of palletization and other order fulfillment type robots.

We think that due to irregularity that it's not an easy tech transfer from the existing logistics world into the aviation world. We're very interesting in looking the other direction, though!

[fakedang]

Many airports have solved the irregular items problem by simply stipulating that items must be cubical/cuboidal/close enough in shape.

Miss the days when my parents took a kitchen sink from Dubai to India, or when my uncle took coconut saplings and a literal banana tree to the US lol.