AI Auto Depalletizing System

―AI Robot Making Distribution Operation Unmanned and Labor-saving―

Abstract

In recent years, our country is suffering from a serious labor shortage due to the decreasing birthrate and aging population.

Especially the distribution industry faces with this labor shortage. Among the logistics tasks,　the unloading（depalletizing）work of cardboards stacked on pallets is a heavy work leading to occupational accidents such as back pain. Therefore, it is difficult to secure labor force and even if they can be hired, workers' retention rate is low. So now it is urgent to make the distribution operation unmanned and labor-saving by robots.

In this paper, we introduce the features of the depalletizing system with AI as an approach to unmanned and labor-saving.