Effidence wins DHL Robotics Challenge
France-based Effidence has won the 2016 DHL Robotics Challenge with its Effi-BOT autonomous delivery robot. The final of the contest – in which Effidence’s Effi-BOT battled it out with robots from Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik (BIBA) and the University of Graz’s Arti – took place on Thursday (17 November) at the DHL Innovation Centre in Troisdorf.
The three robots had to compete over an outdoor obstacle course.
Click here to see a video of the Effi-BOT’s run on the obstacle, uploaded on youtube.com by Effidence.
As previously reported, DHL announced in June that it has run a pilot test using EffiBOTs for “collaborative automated order picking” in a DHL Supply Chain warehouse in Unna, Germany. The robot follows pickers through the warehouse and takes care of most of the physical work.
