News / Automated air cargo handling eyes new heights as labour shortage bites

The evoBOT at work

Automation is changing air cargo handling, a trend exacerbated by the shortage of a skilled workforce.

Since last month, the evoBOT robot has been performing test runs at Cargogate in Munich Airport and, according to the developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), the technology has “immense potential to revolutionise cargo handling automation”.

The robot is equipped with two wheels and gripper arms, handling packages from apron to cargo terminal warehouse.

Claudia Weidenbusch, MD at Cargogate, told The Loadstar ...