The Material Handling Blog

Manually unloading pallets is a time-intensive, repetitive process that can lead to physical strains for operators and job dissatisfaction. Moreso, unintentional human errors can result in miscounts, misplacement and bottlenecks. The process of removing product from a pallet can be automated through the use of industrial robotics, in a process is called robotic depalletizing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been in the news a lot lately.  Self-driving cars, smart personal assistants (e.g. Amazon’s Alexa), and recommendation engines that serve up your favorite movies and books, are all exciting AI applications that you have probably heard about.  There are, though, many more, including in material handling automation.