Robotic technology company AutoStore has built a new Innovation Hub center in Norway to test and replicate diverse in-store and warehouse environments. The facility will be able to test the solutions that are developed for global retailers and their store and warehouse facilities. In addition, the facility’s environment can also be adjusted to allow the robots to be tested in both hot and cold conditions, analyzing how the oxygen level changes when goods are stacked within storage systems. The Hub also simulates earthquakes to see how warehouse and store technology would respond to potentially harmful situations, as well as a number of other functions.
“We identified the need to test solutions under a number of different situations, but we could not set up a test center for cold environments, one for heat, and at the same time one for a modern store solution, one for medical storage and so on. Therefore, we set up a center where we could simulate different situations and needs. This agile approach offers our clients competitive market advantage, and places them at the heart of new innovations within the sector that can propel them forward,” said Karl Johan Lier, CEO of AutoStore, in a statement.
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