Post and Parcel: Automated Vehicles - Reshaping the Logistics Industry in 2020

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„Ich wuchs in einer kleinen, ländlichen Stadt in Amerika auf und hatte einige Freunde, die Landwirte waren. Ich erinnere mich noch gut daran, wie jedes Jahr zur Erntezeit ihre riesigen, GPS gesteuerten Mähdrescher die Felder abfuhren. Das ist nun Jahre her. Ein selbstfahrender Mähdrescher wäre in dieser Zeit ein Luxusgut gewesen, da ein Großteil der täglichen Arbeit in der Landwirtschaft mühsam und schwierig war“, erzählt Matthew Wittemeier, zuständig fürs Marketing im Geschäftsbereich Logistik bei der INFORM GmbH.

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The concept of autonomous drones, robots, and self-driving vehicles (SDVs) is now becoming commonplace. We’re now on the cusp of eliminating the cab and allowing the farmer to sit in front of a laptop, tablet, or even use their smartphone to direct the combine. That said, we’re about to see a drastic uptick in the amount of capital expenditure and implementation of drone, robotics, and SDV technology across the logistics industry.

Labour shortages, Amazon, luxury convenience, 5G technology, the last mile, and consumer demand for the free delivery of goods within hours are regular discussions across the logistics industry. Underpinning many of these discussions is also the broader Industry 4.0 one: the automation of services by robots and AI technologies. In 2017, INFORM put together a three-part blog series titled Drones, Robots and Selfdriving vehicles: Reshaping the Logistics Industry which was also published in the 2018 book Exploring New Frontiers: Reshaping the Postal Industry.

Now, three years on from the first release of that series, we’ve taken the time to dust it off and look at what’s changed around these automated technologies and what the near future might look like for them. Again, for the sake of this discussion, we’ll continue to focus on three categories of automated vehicles: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, aka drones), land-based small vehicles (robots), and automotive self-driving vehicles (SDV).

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