Fraunhofer Institute IML and KION Group— Swarm robotics will soon be making its way into warehouses in the shape of the new LoadRunner
The year is 2021. In the “Silicon Economy”—the digital platform economy of the future—swarms of vehicles organize themselves and communicate with humans, other swarms, and platforms to accomplish their missions. This may sound like science fiction, but it is already a reality in Dortmund, Germany. With the “LoadRunner”, the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML has set a global benchmark in swarm robotics, and developed a new generation of driverless transportation vehicles that use artificial intelligence and 5G communication to organize themselves independently in a swarm at high speeds, achieving huge sorting capacities. Together with KION, the little speedsters will now be further enhanced before being launched on the market. Tobias Zierhut, Head of KION Mobile Automation, explains what this means for the KION Group in an interview.
2021-12-01