Tucked away in a nondescript lane on the outskirts of Bengaluru, is the sorting facility of e-commerce giant Flipkart. Walking into the hangar-like building, you can hear grinding metallic noises.
That’s the sound of hundreds of robots, or cobots, as they are called, working seamlessly with humans. The human workers place the products on the orange-coloured robots, and the machines sort them after scanning the encoded information on each parcel and placing them in the designated bins. “It is cool working with them,” says Nakula Punji, one of the thousand-odd employees …
