Logistics’ Robot Hands
Courier services rely on automatic sorting and digitized, monitored tracking. It is a race against time and competitors.
Tempo
November 13, 2018
AT the Jakarta Central Post Office’s e-commerce distribution center in Lapangan Banteng, a black conveyor belt carried hundreds of packages to a scanner gate shrouded in red light. Each package’s barcode was flashed by a white beam, and each time it happened, a computer screen next to the gate displayed information about the package’s dimension, weight, and postal code.
In less than a minute, 40 packages were scanned. They cont
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