Boots staff and cobots team up at Burton warehouse

Boots UK’s Burton warehouse employees have been working alongside 135 new ‘cobots’, which helped deliver three million items to customers over the two week Black Friday period.

The robots carry orders between picking stations, cutting down the distance the warehouse teams have to walk.

Alan Penhale, Interim Director of Supply Chain, Boots UK, says: “Our warehouse team absolutely love the cobots. They make the warehouse a calmer, more productive place and are also two to three times faster than manually pushing trolleys long distances, saving our teams from having to walk quite as far.”

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