Chinese Company Replaces Workers With Little Orange Bots | TechTree.com

Chinese Company Replaces Workers With Little Orange Bots

The army of tiny robots sort over 2 lakh parcels everyday.

 

Chinese courier giant Shentong Express has cut down its reliance on humans by implementing bots. Built by Chinese company Hikvision, these tiny machines called "Little Orange" sort over 2 lakh packages per day.
 
These bots incredible accuracy when sorting stuff. You don't even have to worry about charging them, as they know when to return to the charging station for power nap. Unlike us humans, these Little Orange bots can work around the clock. They never complain about the work at all.



Since they lack common sense, a few workers are still required to feed them packages. By scanning the barcodes, these machines drop the packages in the right chutes placed under the floor. According to the South China Morning Post, these robots helped Shentong cut cost by half. 
 
In the past, phone and laptop OEM Foxconn replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. Makes us wonder how much of it makes sense in a country like China where labour is dirt cheap.


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