According to incomplete statistics, in 2022, local governments have successively introduced over 581 policies and plans related to cold chain in accordance with national strategic guidelines.
It is worth noting that robots participate in the entire process of cold chain transportation, which is currently very common in cold chain logistics.
In many cold storage facilities nowadays, palletizing and handling can be achieved using robots.
Especially as a cold chain, cold storage operations have a dual cycle of ice and fire. Compared to manual labor, robots can work continuously for a long time, saving costs, facilitating supervision, and ensuring higher safety.
In industry, robots will take on more and more work in the future. With the gradual deepening of intelligence and automation trends, robots will change their previous production and business models, achieve production automation through the introduction of robots, further improve industrial production efficiency, and promote intelligent adjustment of industrial structure.
01. Robots Embrace Cold Chain Logistics
In recent years, with the development of the refrigeration industry, as an important component of industry, more and more machinery and equipment have been put into use. For example, low-temperature cold storage robots.
The birth of low-temperature cold storage robots is based on the two basic principles of "saving labor costs" and "preventing people from being harmed by low temperatures".
As a special environmental operation such as cold chain in cold storage, the temperature can be as low as -18 ° C, -35 ° C, or even -60 ° C, resulting in low efficiency of manual operation and inability to sustain it for a long time, resulting in frequent safety accidents.
The emergence of the built-in "low-temperature small cold storage" robot, which no longer allows people to withstand low-temperature damage, is currently an effective way to reduce costs and improve efficiency in cold storage, and is also a cutting-edge concept for fresh e-commerce to solve the "last mile" problem.
Nowadays, more and more refrigeration manufacturers are choosing intelligent robots for operation, and the advantages of intelligent robots are becoming increasingly evident.
The AGV handling robot is mainly responsible for automatic sorting and cargo transportation in the application of cold chain and cold storage. Its advantages are manifested in the following seven points:
1. As a first generation carrier, AGV handling robots can replace manual handling of items, with an accuracy rate of up to 99.9%, not only saving labor costs but also reducing human error rates.
2. The AGV handling robot can automatically transport items for 24 hours in a row, which not only reduces waiting time but also improves the efficiency of transportation.
3. AGV transport robot, as an intelligent transport device, can automatically scan codes and autonomously identify the items that each user needs to transport, and autonomously transport materials to the designated area by the user.
4. The management system of AGV handling robots includes traffic management functions, effectively reducing safety risks.
5. The application of AGV handling robots in the cold chain can free employees from low-temperature environments, thereby saving the number of people involved in sorting and handling operations.
6. It can reduce the sorting process in the cold chain area and significantly reduce the loss of circulation processes.
7. Under the effective control of the system, the AGV handling robot can carry out operations in an orderly manner and reduce the clutter of the sorting process.