The Future of Shipping – Warehousing Robots

Right now, there are a lot of dif­fer­ent steps that have to hap­pen before any prod­uct in your home ever gets into your hands. The prod­uct has to be man­u­fac­tured, it has to be pack­aged, it has to be pal­letized, it has to be shipped to its des­ti­na­tion, and then it has to be depal­letized and stored until it is time to move the item to the next loca­tion, whether that be a store shelf or your home. All of that ship­ping and stor­ing is why ware­hous­ing robots are becom­ing more promi­nent ideas for the future of manufacturing.

Ware­hous­es are huge build­ings that some­times house hun­dreds, or even thou­sands, of dif­fer­ent prod­ucts. Once a prod­uct has been built and pack­aged, it some­times has to be housed in a ware­house, either at the manufacturer’s facil­i­ty or at the seller’s facil­i­ty, until a cus­tomer decides to buy it or a store shelf needs to be restocked. As our glob­al mar­ket­place con­tin­ues to grow, ware­hous­ing robots are going to become more and more important.

Com­pa­nies like Ama­zon are using mobile robots in ware­hous­es to bring shelves to human work­ers, which cuts down the time it takes for pack­ages to get to cus­tomers. How­ev­er, that is just one step in uti­liz­ing robots in the ware­house indus­try. By tak­ing the nec­es­sary steps to fur­ther uti­lize robot­ics to work with­out human inter­ven­tion to load and unload ship­ping trucks, depal­letize, and shelve items that need to be stored, com­pa­nies would cut down on cost and time when mov­ing mer­chan­dise. There are even sci­en­tists devel­op­ing self-dri­ving robot­ic trucks that would make the ship­ping and ware­hous­ing busi­ness even more efficient.

Are you inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the future of robot­ics, or what robots can do for your busi­ness now? Then you should call Robots​.com, a leader in robot­ics inte­gra­tion! Con­tact a mem­ber of our sales team today online or at 877−762−6881.