By Charlie Andersen, CEO, Burro
Walk into a modern fulfilment centre and you will see the state of the art in autonomous mobile robotics. Robots glide across polished concrete in coordinated patterns, guided by fixed infrastructure, operating within zones that were designed around them from the ground up.
The lighting is controlled. The floor is level. The lanes are marked. The environment, in short, was built to accommodate the robot rather than the other way around.
This is genuinely impressive. It is also a very specific answer to a very specific question, and it is not the question that most of the world’s outdoor labour markets are asking. [Read more…] about Opinion: Why the next generation of AMRs won’t need engineered environments