
Autonomous post sortation company LiBiao Robotics has selected Frankfurt for its new European headquarters, inaugurating a new office space with a showroom and demonstration zones for visitors.
Founder and CEO, Xia Huiling, says: “Apart from providing a base for our European sales and service teams, the new premises will be a place where logistics professionals can learn how robots can improve their productivity and cost efficiency.
“It is obvious from the feedback that we get that Europe’s logistics community is increasingly conscious of the benefits that our innovative approach to sortation brings.”
Some of the biggest names in the European logistics industry use the company’s sortation robot technology, including Packeta – the largest online fulfilment and parcel delivery business in the Czech Republic which uses 170 LiBiao robots to sort up to 10,000 packages hourly at its Prague facility; and Hellenic Post – the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece, which introduced a LiBiao system at its Thessaloniki sorting hub in 2022. Other customers include Walmart, Uniqlo and China Post.
LiBiao’s technology offers an alternative to the high CapEx fixed tilt-tray and cross-belt conveyor-based sortation systems that have traditionally been used within parcel, post and ecommerce operations.
According to the company, an estimated 30 billion parcels are processed globally using its technology.