Zalando boosts Magazino TORU robot fleet at German logistics site
European fashion platform Zalando has extended its Magazino TORU robot fleet at its logistics site in Lahr, Germany.
The existing fleet of eight will be joined by 20 additional robots, some of which will support the picking of shoes ordered online during Cyber Week 2021.
The working area of the robots in the facility will also increase from 4,000 to 16,000 square metres.
Carl-Friedrich zu Knyphausen, Director Logistics Development at Zalando, says: "We see the mobile picking robots from Magazino as an important support for our logistics processes.”
He adds: “Often, automation technologies are difficult to implement in confined areas such as a picking warehouse.”
“But the TORU robots have proven that they can relieve our colleagues of non-ergonomic tasks. They actively and reliably cooperate - and not only in daily business, but also at peak times like Cyber Week."
Frederik Brantner, CEO and Founder, Magazino, comments: "Zalando's decision to roll-out our technology on a large scale is proof that mobile robots like TORU have long since left the testing and prototype phase behind and are now an integral part of modern, high performance intralogistics."
Zalando launched a project with two TORU robots at its Erfurt site in 2018.
This was later followed by the relocation of the robots to the Lahr site and the expansion of the fleet to a total of eight in 2019.
When all additional ones are in live operation by April 2022, Zalando will be operating the largest fleet of TORU robots.
