“The topic of automation and robotization at depots has been resonating in our Packeta group for about three years. But it is very difficult to implement in practice. Because the purely human-powered sorting system we have had so far works perfectly well, and we needed to combine human power with robotic power. We started the project intensively about a year ago. Today, the robot cannot weigh and scan yet, and it is in the next phase that we will start to work out how to enhance our sorting platform with a scanner, scale and camera to automate the processes as much as possible. We plan to robotize things around PackMan in the future as well, so that a different type of robot can also carry cages or load parcels. But we are talking about the future in a few years,” says Tomáš Dort, director of the depot robotization project – PackMan.