Warehouse
Locus launched Locus Array, a robot with its own picking arm and cameras that fills orders without a worker. DHL was running three of them.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“At DHL, three Arrays use omnidirectional wheels to retrieve totes weighing up to 66 lb.”
What it means
Locus robots, from Locus Robotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Locus robots
- Locus said it served more than 150 customers at over 350 sites in 20 countries.
- DHL Supply Chain passed 1 billion picks with help from Locus robots, with thousands of the robots at more than 40 sites.
- Locus said its robots had helped with more than 6 billion picks, and that tens of thousands of its robots were at work in North America, Europe and Asia.
- DHL agreed to put 5,000 more Locus robots to work across its warehouses around the world.
- DHL Supply Chain first teamed up with Locus in 2017.