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Xia Huiling, the founder and CEO of the intelligent sorting robot developer LiBiao Robot, said at the Beyond Expo Technology Conference in Macau on Friday: "Logistics robots will become standardized components like motors and are ready to be used in various industries in the next five years. .".
When asked to predict the industry's five-year outlook, Zhu Junda, CEO of HC Robotics, a developer of smart warehouse systems and equipment, agreed. "Warehouse and logistics robots should be widely used tools with low barriers to adoption," he said.
The group is jointly organized by global investors and commercial operators GLP in the logistics, real estate and infrastructure sectors.
The robotics industry always focuses on the future, but the team members used a very practical method when judging the current success of a company: whether its products will create value for customers in a very specific and quantitative way.
"The pursuit of efficiency is the first principle we make all decisions when developing products," Xia said.
She took Uniqlo as an example to illustrate her point of view. This Japanese clothing retailer has adopted a sorting robot developed by a stand-on robot in a warehouse with a daily shipment volume of more than 400,000 pieces/day, reducing the time from online order acceptance to delivery from the warehouse from 8 hours to 3 hours . The number of employees has been reduced by 75%, and all new warehouse employees only need one day of training to start work.
"Value creation only makes sense through these numbers," she said.
"The robotics industry may have a peculiar halo surrounding it. But in essence, it is still a business about moving things. The core problem we want to solve now is how to remove goods from higher efficiency and lower cost. Move from one place to another and store more goods in a fixed space," said Zhu of HC Robotics. The company develops automated and modular storage racking and warehouse management system solutions.
He Wenzhong, the special assistant to the CEO of GLP New Energy, said that the key to the future success of logistics robots is to establish a decentralized logistics network to eliminate the repetitive work caused by systems that rely on large centralized distribution centers.
Zhao Yue, chairman of Xaar Group, a smart logistics solution provider, said that the key to success is to build an ecosystem that connects every link in the industrial chain to produce synergy. The software solutions developed by Zhao's company include controllers, logistics digitization and visual artificial intelligence. Zhao referred to Seer's product as the "smart brain" of logistics robots. Zhao said that Seer's software solutions have been used by more than 600 automation hardware companies worldwide.
Emma Lee is a technology writer based in Shanghai. She mainly reports on startups and technology events in China and Asia. We are looking for stories related to technology and China. Contact her at lixin@technode.com. More works by Emma Lee
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