The demands placed on the supply chain are pushing companies to consider enhancing their workers with bionic technology, reports Digital Supply Chain.

The combination of a shortage in warehouse space and the increasing demand for goods ordered online has the potential to cause havoc in the supply chain industry. Companies are expected to innovate faster in the areas of productivity and efficiency in order to meet the rising demands placed on them by retailers and consumers alike, and bionic technology, that works in collaboration with warehouse employees, can help businesses to achieve this.

According to Supply Chain Dive, DHL is deploying technology in its cold storage facilities to ensure that optimal conditions for the products exists at all times. 

When DHL decided to upgrade its 434,000-square-foot cold storage facility at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, the company had an eye not just on maintaining temperatures inside the facility, but making sure those temperatures held at all parts of the delivery cycle.

GreyOrange is embarking on a new project to bring more automation to warehouses, reports Supply & Demand Chain Executive. GreyOrange will bring its technology solutions to eight warehousing companies. 

GreyOrange, a global software and robotics company, is partnering with eight warehousing companies to deploy and service its technology. Avik, Services, Bricz, Hy-Tek, Info-Sun, McCombs-Wall, S&H Systems, TREW and UST Global are all joining forces with GreyOrange

One company is developing robots to work in the supply chain that mimic how ants function in a colony, reports Robot Report. 

The industriousness and efficiency of ants is well-known, and they have inspired one company working on supply chain automation. Attabotics makes a goods-to-person automated storage and retrieval system that includes robotic carts that can move in three dimensions, just like ants in a colony