Are you a fan of online shopping? It is likely that your purchase was handled by one of these new robots that are changing the logistics industry. The common denominator of this revolution is the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

In Amazon's warehouses, an army of 500 robots assembles customer orders, moving among thousands of zip codes, and load them onto delivery trucks via conveyor belts. 

Something similar happens in the warehouses of Shentong Express, a distribution company in Hangzhou, China, where hundreds of small yellow robots, which are self-charging and can therefore operate continuously, are capable of selecting up to 200,000 packages per day with greater precision than humans, calculating a total of more than 300 billion route combinations in 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 innovations, the Chinese company HIkrobotics has launched a robot that is a forklift capable of lifting objects weighing up to one ton , moving through narrow aisles and lifting loads up to 3 meters, as well as being able to communicate with other robots. 

British online grocery retailer Ocado, for its part, has launched its automated warehouse management system OSP for food retailers. One of its central elements consists of robots that move at high speed around a 3D network, selecting products from a range of 58,000 items, enabling it to prepare orders with 99% accuracy in just a few minutes. 

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

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