Do you enjoy online shopping? It’s likely that your order was handled by one of these new robots that are transforming the logistics industry. The common thread in this revolution is the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

At Amazon's fulfillment centers, an army of 500 robots picks and packs customers' orders, moving between thousands of ZIP codes, and load them onto delivery trucks via conveyor belts. 

Something similar happens at the warehouses of Shentong Express, a distribution company in Hangzhou, China, where hundreds of small yellow robots—which recharge themselves and can therefore operate nonstop—are capable of sorting up to 200,000 packages per day with greater precision than humans, calculating a total of more than 300,000 million route combinations across an area of 2,000 square meters.

The Israeli company BionicHIVE, meanwhile, has designed a robot called SqUID that adapts to the warehouse and is inspired by worker bees. These robots can reach any location in the winery, carrying boxes weighing up to 15 kilograms. 

Continuing with the innovations, the Chinese company HIkrobotics has released a robot onto the market that functions as a forklift capable of lifting objects weighing up to one metric ton while navigating narrow aisles and lifting the load up to 3 meters, as well as communicating with other robots. 

The British online grocery retailer Ocado, for its part, has launched its OSP automated warehouse management system for food retailers. One of its core features is a fleet of robots that move at high speed through a 3D grid, picking products from a selection of 58,000 items, enabling it to fulfill orders with 99% accuracy in just minutes. 

Finally, the U.S.-based company inVia Robotics offers a compact robot that can be adapted to any warehouse and picks up objects with industrial suction cups. It features a mechanism that allows it to lift loads up to seven meters. 

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