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Danish Business
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Robot Logistics
Automation for everyone Robot Logistics is a relatively new company that offers logistics automation. Their system is adjustable but, first and foremost, affordable for small and medium-sized companies. By Nicolai Lisberg
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The future is here – at least when we talk about logistics automation. More and more companies working with e-commerce have realised that in order to optimise their business they need to change their processes. Up until now, the change to automation has been considered a costly affair, which is one of the main reasons why only bigger companies have jumped on the bandwagon. But that is about to change. “We’ve developed an automated storage and retrieval system in order to improve the efficiency of logistics operations 106
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Issue 101
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June 2017
– a system tailor-made for small and medium-sized companies who up until now haven’t had the opportunity to change to automation because of the amount of money they would have had to invest,” says Anders Eeg Møller, CEO and founder of Robot Logistics. Møller founded the company together with his father, whom he describes as a Gyro Gearloose type. The father was the one who came up with the technical aspect of the system and, since last year, the two of them have travelled around Denmark to find investors for
their company. At the moment, a technology company named Gipo, Syddansk Innovation and the Fund of Christian Nielsen have all found Robot Logistics worth investing in. “One of the things that caught our interest when we had to decide which projects to support was the fact that robot technology and automation are the future, especially for companies working with e-commerce. There is great demand in the market for automation, and we really hope that Robot Logistics with their technology and their project can help meet that demand,” says Svend Muusmann, administrative manager at the Fund of Christian Nielsen.
Affordable solutions Another reason why small and medi-