ROBOTS are helping Munich Airport step up automation and efficiency in its operations through a project that aims to embed digital technologies in air cargo handling.
robots working in very different ways were given key roles, said Munich Airport. Boston Dynamics's robot dog Spot, which is equipped with a scanner and 4K camera, patrolled the warehouse autonomously and identified large storage pallets ready for storage and the corresponding storage locations.
The initial results of a Digital Testbed Air Cargo (DTAC) research project at Munich Airport have been demonstrated by researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, together with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, insurance company KRAVAG and industrial partners at Munich Airport, including Cargogate, CHI, Sovereign Speed and DB Schenker reports London's Air Cargo News.
The DTAC project, which has around EUR7 million (US$7.6 million) in funding from the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport and will run until September 2024, is focusing on how the efficiency and performance of the air freight transport chain can be optimized.
The project aims to achieve this through better networking and digitalization of processes.
During the demonstration of the project at Munich Airport, several autonomous and automated devices were successfully used to either completely take over some very labour-intensive and repetitive steps at relevant interfaces in the handling process or to support employees in their physically demanding work.
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robots working in very different ways were given key roles, said Munich Airport. Boston Dynamics's robot dog Spot, which is equipped with a scanner and 4K camera, patrolled the warehouse autonomously and identified large storage pallets ready for storage and the corresponding storage locations.
The initial results of a Digital Testbed Air Cargo (DTAC) research project at Munich Airport have been demonstrated by researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, together with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, insurance company KRAVAG and industrial partners at Munich Airport, including Cargogate, CHI, Sovereign Speed and DB Schenker reports London's Air Cargo News.
The DTAC project, which has around EUR7 million (US$7.6 million) in funding from the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport and will run until September 2024, is focusing on how the efficiency and performance of the air freight transport chain can be optimized.
The project aims to achieve this through better networking and digitalization of processes.
During the demonstration of the project at Munich Airport, several autonomous and automated devices were successfully used to either completely take over some very labour-intensive and repetitive steps at relevant interfaces in the handling process or to support employees in their physically demanding work.
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