After years of development, the owner of the Uniqlo clothing brand has createda robotthat can fold clothes, paving the way for fully automated factories.<\/p>\n
Last year, Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing replaced90 percent of workers at its flagship warehouse in Tokyo with robots - and now it is ready to go further.<\/p>\n
The world's second-largest fashionretailerhas been desperate to automate its warehouse and distribution systems, claiming a severe shortage of manual workers due to Japan's ageing population.Just over a year ago, it pledgedto invest 100 billionyen (700m)in the effort, including revamping the Tokyo warehouse.<\/p>\n
But until now, there was still one job the robots had not been able to perform: folding clothes.<\/p>\n
Although a simple task for humans, folding clothes requires a level of dexterity and an ability to distinguish between items that has been hard to conquer for robots.<\/p>\n
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Uniqlo heads towards full warehouse automation with groundbreaking robot that can fold and box clothes - The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After years of development, the owner of the Uniqlo clothing brand has createda robotthat can fold clothes, paving the way for fully automated factories. Continue reading