The robot can move and sort parcels weighing up to 30 kilograms. It can also haul up to four passive trailers. Fraunhofer IML put the LoadRunner’s parcel-sorting powers to the test which revealed about 60 vehicles can process 13,000 parcels per hour.
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A growth in e-commerce means more number of warehouses that store and pack large quantities of inventories. To move these boxes in and around these units, robots are increasingly being used.
The latest in that line of bots is the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automated guided vehicles, dubbed ‘LoadRunners’. They can sort large-sized packages and move them as fast as roughly a kilometre in less than two minutes.
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