The Changing Face of Robotics in Warehouse Management

steve jacob
Logistics Technogy
Published in
2 min readNov 20, 2018

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Businesses around the world are widely incorporating robotics inside their warehouses today, for efficient warehouse management, improved productivity, and greater flexibility. Although these organizations are using the robotics in warehouses for years, the recent boom developments in the IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning has widened the opportunities and scope of the robotic technology in enterprises.

The recent robots are much capable than the old legacy robotic technology with some advances in vision, gripping and navigation technologies which enable better automation in warehouse functions. It also helps in improving the productivity of the entire organization with better improvements of fixed conveyor systems. The improvements in robotics automation in warehouses will reduce several costs, enhance performance with the help of the new technological applications.

CarryPick Autonomous Mobile Robots has become a common robotic technology used in many of the organizations. The technology provides a goods-to-person picking system which automatically reduces the pick times. It also improves the ability to adapt to the variations in demands. CarryPick incorporates mobile robots to provide products to the well-organized workstations with the facility of assembly order system.

The flexible AutoStore system facilitates the goods-to-person picking as same as CarryPick, but with much abilities to handle a high volume of both fast and slow-moving small-order and small-case-pick SKUs operations fulfillment which need high storage capacity. Hat World, a promising robot which functions under the retail brand Lids, uses Autostore for large inventory management through multiple channels. Read More

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steve jacob
Logistics Technogy

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