A start-up and the parent of Uniqlo invented a robot with two arms that can pick up soft T-shirts and place them neatly in boxes.
There was only one job that robots could not do when Fast Retailing, the owner of Uniqlo, replaced 90% of its workers with robots at its flagship warehouse in Tokyo last year.
While it sounds easy, the ability to lift soft textiles has been a challenge for clumsy robotic arms. Add to this the need to sort through constantly changing seasonal clothes, in shades that are hard to distinguish and wrapped in various forms of packaging, and humans have always come out on top. Founded in 2011, Mujin develops robot motion and vision systems, such as 3-D cameras. After human operators set up a machine with Mujin controllers, it can see and move without having to be repeatedly programmed.
The jointly developed robot, which was made by Yaskawa Electric Corp., is already operating in Fast Retailing’s main warehouse in Tokyo, but Takino admitted that the robot was not able to handle all of the facility’s products, and that it needed further development.
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