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An illustration of Fabric s, formerly CommonSense Robotics, micro-fulfillment centers (Courtesy
Israel’s largest health and beauty retailer, Super-Pharm, is expanding its collaboration with Israeli startup Fabric, formerly known as CommonSense Robotics, to use small robotized facilities in city centers to help the retailer meet the growing online demand for its products.
The two companies set up a partnership two years ago, in which Fabric used robotic facilities in the Tel Aviv metro area to process online orders for same-day delivery by Super-Pharm. Now, with the expansion of that collaboration, Fabric will more than triple the number of orders it fulfills for Super-Pharm by building and operating a second so-called “micro-fulfillment center” that will handle thousands of orders a day for the retailer, for nationwide same-day and next-day delivery services on demand.
A Roboteam robot. Photo: Roboteam.
CTech – One of the first things that strikes you when you enter eGold’s fulfillment center in the port city of Ashdod is how quiet things are. The 20,000 square meter facility that handles thousands of items a day, taking them from the container ship they arrived on and prepping them for delivery to customers’ homes, is eerily silent. Where you would expect to hear the grumbling of engines, the whizzing and burring of conveyor belts, the shouting of instructions between workers, and the shrill warning of forklifts backing up, all you can hear is the hum of electric motors working in perfect sync.
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