Industrial robots and the relocation market

The relocation industry experienced a sudden dip followed by massive demand owing to the Covid-19 pandemic situation globally. Though lockdowns curtailed relocation of residences and offices, businesses utilised relocation services to deliver office equipment to their employees to ensure that work was not affected.

Some of the key players in the relocation industry stepped forward to deliver oxygen cylinders to medical institutions.

To increase efficiency and offer enhanced customer service, technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Robotics are being utilised by players in the relocation industry. Globally, the logistics robotics market size was $6.17 Billion in 2021. In the purview of the enormous benefits robots offer in the logistics industry, the market is bound to grow rapidly.

Robots are mainly used for packing, picking and moving goods. Robots can read QR codes and signals to move across the floor of the warehouse. Since the minimum human intervention is required to use the robots, it is a worthwhile investment to make.

Introducing robots in the business process of a relocation company saves time, cost and effort of employing skilled and unskilled manual labour.

Eliminating the recurring cost of labour, robots also perform tasks that are deemed difficult and risky to be carried out by humans.

Increasing the safety quotient of employees at the workplace and reducing manual labour, the relocation players can offer a high standard of work thereby changing the way the relocation industry has worked for decades. This in turn also results in reducing costs by up to 40% and increasing productivity by up to 60%.

Using robots, businesses can increase their efficiency as the robots can speed up the task of loading, unloading, packing, lifting, sorting and storing. A different set of robots can also load the packages onto conveyor belts thereby increasing the speed and precision of work.

Players who are new in the relocation market or are operating on a small scale can deploy autonomous mobile robots, AMR as they are small yet very effective. AMR works by following sensors, computers and maps, and is equipped to identify information on the package in order to sort the package. Devices such as AMR allow relocation companies to experiment with robots on a small scale before turning them completely into their business operations.

Companies that have or work with large warehouses benefit from Automated Guided Vehicles, AGV, Automated Storage and Retrieval System. In AGV, the business will have to lay tracks within the warehouse for the robot to move around.

Automated Storage and Retrieval System robots can be used based on the task at hand – climb aisle, move on the floor, retrieve packages, orders, or pick, transit within the warehouse and store the orders.

Robots can be fully programmed to load and unload packages thereby making it a fully automated system. Though robots have been a part of the logistics industry for quite some time now, it has not seeped deep into the relocation industry yet.

Labour organisations have not been in favour of adopting robotics with the intention of saving jobs of labourers. But now, seeing the improved working conditions with the usage of robotics, the labourers are more than happy to move ahead with the times.

Key Takeaways

• Businesses can increase efficiency as robots can speed up the task of loading, unloading, packing, lifting, sorting, storing.
• A different set of robots can load the packages onto conveyor belts increasing speed and precision of work.
• Introducing robots in the business process saves time, cost and effort of employing skilled and unskilled manual labour.

Eliminating the recurring cost of labour, robots also perform tasks that are deemed difficult and risky to be carried out by humans.