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Robot sorting system sorts 200,000 packages per day

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago

YouTube description:

Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.
Orange robots at the company's sorting stations are able to identify the destination of a package through a code-scan, virtually eliminating sorting mistakes.
Shentong's army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages a day, and are self-charging, meaning they are operational 24/7.
The company estimates its robotic sorting system is saving around 70-percent of the costs a human-based sorting line would require.

(via digg, H/T @eric3579)

7 Comments

This reminds me of the robots in the Jetsons or Fifth Element. Looks cute, but not very efficient.

FedEx & UPS sorting systems are much higher volume with very few humans involved.

It depends on what you're optimising for.

Package throughput is probably less important than lowering cost.

It doesn't matter if it takes twice as long if the cost is 1% of what you pay a human.

This reminds me of the robots in the Jetsons or Fifth Element. Looks cute, but not very efficient.

FedEx & UPS sorting systems are much higher volume with very few humans involved.

They look like a smaller variation of Amazon's robots that move their racks around.

But god... that music... I could barely watch the video.

At 1:13, the bot at the lower left is tipping it's lid with nothing on it. That tells me the package fell off at some point since it wouldn't have gone anywhere without a scan first.

Traffic jams means sub-optimal traffic control system.
As always China copies others only to 90%.

transmorpher says...

Looks like each robot act individually and only detects others at short distances - instead of having a central system which coordinates all of the robots paths ahead of time.

Traffic jams means sub-optimal traffic control system.
As always China copies others only to 90%.

LiquidDrift says...

Wow, the Chinese are losing their jobs due to automation much faster than I thought.

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