For dozens of years, Logistics has been a fundamental area in the production and distribution process, and warehouses have been equipped with robots in an accelerated manner to satisfy the needs of so many orders that must be managed in the shortest possible time.
The increase in electronic commerce has amplified this pressure and large distributors (Amazon and others) have a multitude of robots in their warehouses, and this allows them to be much more agile when it comes to speeding up their deliveries to customers.
Anyone who buys something on Amazon (I buy little but I also perceive it), can verify that when placing the order they give us an expected delivery date, and that in many cases the actual delivery is ahead of the forecast received.
This is due to the enormous automation of the entire logistics process and the robots in their different shapes and sizes do nothing but spread out more and more throughout all warehouses.
In a warehouse, robots take many different forms depending on the objective of their function. From a transport cart that moves by itself, to a robot that handles boxes and places them on a conveyor belt, through a robot that packs, etc….
The companies that manufacture robots for these purposes continue to grow their turnover from year to year, and at the moment there is no end in sight, although it is already known that happiness does not last forever.
If you enter the website of a company like Locus Robotics you can see the enormous variety of proposals that they offer to the market. https://locusrobotics.com/
And like this there are many other companies offering solutions, because when a market grows, companies go to it like flies to honey. There is a lot of sweetness to distribute.
Robots have the additional advantage that their work can also be controlled remotely, and sometimes companies can have robots working in a warehouse and the operators of those robots are in another distant warehouse. In this way, synergies are exploited and labor is saved.
And because the additional workload generated by e-commerce is so great, today robots do not replace people but complement them. Today robots are bought and people are hired for warehouses, but in the future when the current peak of work falls I am clear that many workers will go home and the work will be done by robots.
Those of us who are outside of this world of warehouses and distribution do not realize how much technology is involved in the business, but those who manufacture robots are very clear about it and have been making good profits for a few years.
I'm happy for them, because nobody gives away anything for nothing and their results are achieved through hard work. In part, this is why we pay so little when we get the products delivered to our homes.
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