RESTATED CERTFICIATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                              ROBOCOM SYSTEMS INC.

                Under Section 807 of the Business Corporation Law
                            of the State of New York



        The undersigned, being the President and Secretary, respectively, of
Robocom Systems Inc., a New York corporation, hereby certify and sets forth as
follows:

         FIRST: That the name of the corporation is Robocom Systems Inc. (the
"Corporation").

         SECOND: That the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was
filed with the Department of State of the State of New York on June 23, 1982 and
was amended on October 30, 1995.

         THIRD: That the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is
hereby amended as follows:

                A. To change the Corporation's corporate purpose.

                B. To change the location of the office of the Corporation from
                Oyster Bay, County of Nassau, State of New York to County of
                Nassau, State of New York.

                C. To change the number and classes of the shares of capital
                stock that the Corporation is currently authorized to issue from
                2,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $.01 value per share (of which
                1,967,984 shares are presently issued and outstanding), to
                10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, and
                1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share;
                and to define the rights of all shares of capital stock of the
                Corporation.

                D. To change the address to which the Secretary of State of the
                State of New York shall mail a copy of any process against the
                Corporation which may be served upon him or her.

                E. To state that no holder of shares of the Corporation of any
                class shall have preemptive rights to acquire shares or other
                securities.




                F. To limit the personal liability of directors to the extent
                permitted by Section 402(b) of the Business Corporation Law of
                the State of New York.

                G. To indemnify directors and officers to the fullest extent
                permitted by Article 7 of the Business Corporation Law of the
                State of New York.

                Accordingly, the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation
                is hereby amended to effect the foregoing changes and is hereby
                restated as amended to read as herein set forth in full:

                        1. The name of the Corporation is Robocom Systems Inc.

                        2. The purpose for which the Corporation is formed is
                        as follows:

                              To engage in any lawful act or activity for which
                           corporations may be formed under the Business
                           Corporation Law of the State of New York (the
                           "Business Corporation Law"), provided that the
                           Corporation is not formed to engage in any act or
                           activity which requires the consent or approval of
                           any state official, department, board, agency or any
                           other body, without such approval or consent first
                           being obtained. For the accomplishment of the
                           aforesaid purposes, and in furtherance thereof, the
                           Corporation shall have and may exercise all of the
                           powers conferred by the Business Corporation Law upon
                           corporations formed thereunder, subject to any
                           limitations contained in Article 2 of said Law or in
                           accordance with the provisions of any other statute
                           of the State of New York.

                        3. The office of the Corporation is to be located in the
                        County of Nassau, State of New York.

                        4. The aggregate number of shares of capital stock which
                        the Corporation shall have authority to issue is
                        11,000,000, of which 10,000,000 shall be Common Stock,
                        par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), and
                        1,000,000 shall be Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per
                        share (the "Preferred Stock"). The Preferred Stock may
                        be issued, from time to time, in one or more series with
                        such designations, preferences and relative
                        participating optional or other special rights and
                        qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as
                        shall be stated in the resolutions adopted by the Board
                        of Directors providing for the issuance of such
                        Preferred Stock or series thereof; and the Board of
                        Directors is hereby expressly vested with authority to
                        fix such designations, preferences and relative
                        participating options or other special rights or
                        qualifications, limitations or restrictions for each
                        series, including, but not by way of limitation, the
                        power to determine the redemption and liquidation
                        preferences, the rate of dividends payable and the time
                        for and the priority of payment thereof and to determine
                        whether such dividends shall be 

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                        cumulative or not and to provide for and determine the
                        terms of conversion of such Preferred Stock or any
                        series thereof into Common Stock of the Corporation and
                        fix the voting power, if any, of Preferred Stock or any
                        series thereof.

                        5. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is
                        designated as agent of the Corporation upon whom process
                        against the Corporation may be served. The address to
                        which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any
                        such process so served is:

                              Robocom Systems Inc.
                              511 Ocean Avenue
                              Massapequa, New York, 11758
                              Attention: President

                        6. No holder of shares of the Corporation of any class,
                        now or hereafter authorized, shall have any preferential
                        or preemptive rights to subscribe for, purchase or
                        receive any shares of the Corporation of any class, now
                        or hereafter authorized, or any options or warrants for
                        such shares, or any rights to subscribe to or purchase
                        such shares, or any securities convertible into or
                        exchangeable for such shares, which may at any time be
                        issued, sold or offered for sale by the Corporation.

                        7. A director of the Corporation shall not be liable to
                        the Corporation or its shareholders for damages for any
                        breach of duty in such capacity except for liability in
                        the event a judgment or other final adjudication adverse
                        to a director establishes that his or her acts or
                        omissions were in bad faith or involved intentional
                        misconduct or a knowing violation of law or that the
                        director personally gained, in fact, a financial profit
                        or other advantage to which he or she was not legally
                        entitled or that such director's acts violated Section
                        719, or its successor, of the Business Corporation Law;
                        or liability for any act or omission prior to the
                        adoption of this provision.

                        8. The Corporation shall indemnify any person to the
                        fullest extent permitted by the Business Corporation
                        Law, as amended from time to time, for all amounts
                        (including, without limitation, judgments, fines,
                        settlement payments, expenses and attorneys' fees)
                        incurred or paid in connection with any action, suit,
                        investigation or proceeding arising out of or relating
                        to the performance of services by such person acting as
                        a director or officer of the Corporation, and shall to
                        the fullest extent permitted by the Business Corporation
                        Law, as amended from time to time, advance all expenses
                        incurred or paid by such person in connection with, and
                        until disposition of any action, suit, investigation or
                        proceeding arising out of or relating to the performance
                        of services by such person acting as a director or
                        officer of the Corporation, and shall, to the fullest
                        extent permitted by the Business Corporation Law, as
                        amended from time to time, advance all expenses

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                        incurred in or paid by such person in connection with,
                        and until disposition of, any action, suit,
                        investigation of proceeding arising out of or relating
                        to the performance of services by such person acting as
                        a director or officer of the Corporation. The
                        Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors,
                        provide indemnification to employees and agents of the
                        Corporation with the same scope and effect as the
                        foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.

         FOURTH:The foregoing amendments to, and this restatement of, the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation were authorized by (i) the
unanimous approval of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, followed by
(ii) the unanimous approval of the holders of all outstanding shares of the
Corporation entitled to vote thereon.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, President and Secretary of the
Corporation, have each executed this Restated Certificate of Incorporation on
May __, 1997, and each hereby affirms, under penalties of perjury, that the
statements contained herein are true.

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                                    Irwin Balaban
                                    President


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                                    Secretary

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