A French robotics company Exotec Solutions, is developing fleets of robots called the Skypods to optimize e-commerce warehouses, these autonomous Skypod robots help the human workers by retrieving items from shelves and bringing them to them.
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The Skypod robots moves the goods either in totes or on trays among the warehouse up to 10m, thanks to their no-infrastructure navigation.
The robots can reach speed of 10mph in three dimensions,they can carry up to 30kgs at a time, each Skypod is charged hourly, so they can operate for 24 hours a day.
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The Skypod solution is the first and unique solution with totally uncorrelated storage capacity and performance, making it the only really flexible & scalable system./exotecsolutions
