Belgian company D. Cloostermans–Huwaert NV, which designs technology to manage the flow of robots through warehouses, a sign of growing interest in the area., expects to leverage 2,000 collaborative robots this year, up from 1,500 last year, primarily for transporting goods around the warehouse, the company said.
One challenge, according to Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is that robots struggle picking up objects that are oddly shaped or soft, such as food products or clothes or anything that isn’t inside a box. In these cases, they might be able to execute the task, but they do it much slower than humans would, he said.
Sandeep Sakharkar, the CIO of GXO Logistics, said roughly one out of every 8 to 10 proof-of-concept tests the company does on potential new robotic solutions results in subsequent implementation.
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