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Sick wins logistics innovation prize
Sick received the VDI Logistics Innovation Award 2025 for its robot guidance system 'Pallet content Localization' (Palloc), which was presented at the 32nd German Material Flow Congress on 20 and 21 March 2025.
Palloc is an AI-supported, adaptive localization solution for automatic depalletization with robots. It combines a 3D snapshot camera with a factory pre-installed and pre-trained neural network and a new deep learning-based localization algorithm. Sick's system offers the ability to localize almost unlimited variants of stacked cartons on pallets and provides position coordinates for reliable and safe robot operation. The integrated neural network already includes a large number of different carton types and can be supplemented with new carton variants at any time via a user-friendly AI tool suite.
The VDI Logistics Innovation Award
The 'Logistics Innovation Prize' is awarded annually by the VDI Society for Production and Logistics (VDI-GPL). The prize is awarded to the company that has made an outstanding contribution to innovation in logistics. The winner is selected by an independent jury.
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