Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the followingquote: “The invention generally relates to automated, robo tic and other object processing systems suchas sortation systems, and relates i n particular to automated and robotic systems intended for use inenvironments r equiring, for example, that a variety of objects (e.g., parcels, packages, and a rticles etc.)be processed and distributed to several output destinations within a confined space.