Cainiao, the logistics technology company, has shown an upgraded version of its climbing warehouse robot at the CeMAT Asia exhibition. The robot climbs onto storage racks and can now take bins from four sides, front and back on either side of an aisle, and reach bins stored two deep.
According to the company, smoother S-shaped turns raise operating efficiency by 15% and the new layout raises storage density by 20%. A new planning tool lets customers enter a warehouse's size and order volume and get an AI-generated layout and simulated trial run in as little as 10 minutes.
The robot has orders in Vietnam, the Netherlands and Spain, with the Dutch and Spanish projects now being delivered, and Cainiao showed an international model that meets EU and US standards. Cainiao Logistics Technology says it has more than 1,100 projects in 29 countries.
