How the Internet of Robotic Things is helping supply chains to evolve in times of uncertainty | Features - ITProPortal

Robotics are being used across the supply chain to make things easier during the pandemic, as Stefan Spendrup, Vice President of Sales Northern and Western Europe at SOTI reports.

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In recent years, the Internet of Things has been hailed as a game changer for businesses. The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is helping businesses to evolve even further. In just a few decades, industrial robots have become commonplace in factory settings across the world, and they only continue to gain popularity for their productivity and profitability.

Robotics have created a revolution in manufacturing. The cooperation between robots and IoT technology have enhanced supply chain operations, reducing the challenges of rising e-commerce demands and warehouse worker shortages, and streamlining industry processes in a more efficient and cost-effective way.

Robotics have long been successful in several structured industrial applications, due to their high level of accuracy, precision, endurance and speed...

IoRT is a concept in which intelligent technology can monitor and manipulate the events happening around them by fusing their sensor data and making use of local conditions to decide on a particular course of action of how to behave or control objects in the physical world.

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Source: ITProPortal