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Robots sort out thousands of Flipkart parcels in a jiffy
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IANS | 12 Jun, 2019
As India's leading e-tailer, Flipkart uses about 100 robots to sort out
parcels automatically in thousands daily to minimize delays in
delivering what customers buy online on its website, an official said on
Tuesday.
"To speed up delivery, we are using about 100 bots
(robots) powered by automation intelligence (AI) at the clearing
facility to sort the parcels ordered by customers in thousands from
across the country," city-based world retail giant Walmart arms's
spokesperson told IANS here.
As it is humanly not
possible to handle the parcels in thousands in a short time, emerging
technologies like AI, ML (machine learning), and cloud computing data
analysis, have ushered in a paradigm shift to speed up and scale
logistics.
Flagging the role of technology in speeding
up processing the data and sorting the packages using sensors, the
company was able to turn around 4,500 shipments an hour at twice the
speed, with 99.9 per cent accuracy, said the company in a statement.
"A-I powered bots, known as automated guided vehicles (AGVs), work
together to enable us deliver the customer packages at the earliest.
With minimal human intervention pre-programmed bots sort out faster and
better for quick delivery," said a company spokesperson.
With disruptive technologies changing the game for a country rapidly
embracing e-commerce, the spokesperson clarified that bots were,
however, not replacing humans who are being used in the supply chain and
logistics where they are used.
The AGVs, which are
cuboidal and tiny, move swiftly. As they are fitted with sensors, the
100 odd robots don't bump into each other but wait as self-driving
vehicles do in traffic.
"We have been using the bots
over the last two months on a trial basis in tandem with our employees
at our large facility, which is the mother hub where 4,500 packages are
sorted out an hour, 24x7," the spokesperson added.
Touted to be the first in India, the robot-based sortation technology is the only one in use in Asia outside China.
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