{"id":15485,"date":"2024-08-14T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1409330"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:08:42","slug":"the-race-to-power-europes-warehouses-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=15485","title":{"rendered":"The race to power Europe\u2019s warehouses with robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The robot arms train every night. About half a dozen of them, flexing in silence. They practise picking up items thousands of times over, to test whether their latest algorithms are working as intended. And in the morning, Nomagic\u2019s engineers turn up for work to check how the machines did.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a never-ending effort,\u201d says CEO Tristan d\u2019Orgeval. If the robot<\/a> arms performed as intended, the updated algorithms get uploaded to the Warsaw-headquartered company\u2019s live system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nomagic currently has 70 employees and has raised $39 million to date. Right now, dozens of the firm\u2019s robot arms are toiling away in warehouses scattered around Europe. They pick and move an astounding variety of items \u2014 from t-shirts to bags of screws. They lift them out of storage bins; they sort them; they drop them into boxes for shipping.<\/span><\/p>\n

The total number of these picking arms being used by various clients including fashion retailer ASOS and logistics company FIEGE is currently below 100 \u2014 d\u2019Orgeval declines to reveal the exact figure. \u201cWe\u2019re growing fast,\u201d he adds, however, suggesting that the number of machines deployed commercially could triple over the next six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the battle to ship goods as quickly and as efficiently as possible, retailers and logistics firms around the continent are increasingly turning to AI<\/a> and robotics. These technologies promise streamlined sorting and shipping of individual items and yet they remain imperfect \u2014 sometimes robots pick the wrong item, or go the wrong way as they move around a warehouse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Plus, adoption of these machines could limit the number of warehouse jobs that are available for humans in the future. The industry is nonetheless adamant that there is significant demand for automation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take your (robot) pick<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nomagic\u2019s robot arms are tasked with picking and sorting foil-wrapped garments, glass jars, cardboard boxes and other items. Sometimes there\u2019s no wrapping at all. It\u2019s only when the arms can pick 95% or more of the items in a given warehouse that the company brings significant value to customers, says d\u2019Orgeval. <\/span><\/p>\n

And for those 95% of items, the arms should hardly ever slip up: \u201cIt needs to work more than 99.9% of the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fashion retailer ASOS uses Nomagic\u2019s robotic arms in its warehouse. Credit: Nomagic<\/figcaption>