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The robots, yes. The sorters and conveyance, far less so. A huge portion of their cost is just the installation. For a big, high speed 'shoe'[0] sorter, you're
by mabbo 5y ago
The robots, yes. The sorters and conveyance, far less so. A huge portion of their cost is just the installation.
For a big, high speed 'shoe'[0] sorter, you're talking about a machine more than 100m long that is heavily, heavily bolted into the cement floor. I believe that particular building has four such sorters.
[0] Not a sorter of shoes for your feet, but a sorter that uses little boxes called 'shoes' to carefully knock packages off at the right place.