{"id":2220,"date":"2022-01-19T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/01\/19\/and-a-focus-on-robotics\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:55:36","slug":"and-a-focus-on-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/terminal-operations\/and-a-focus-on-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2026AND A FOCUS ON ROBOTICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new portfolio comprises the Kalmar RoboTractor, RoboLifter, RoboStacker and RoboHandler. The company has confirmed that prototypes of each item of equipment are currently being tested at various locations globally.<\/p>\n<p>Kalmar explains that moving \u201cintelligence\u201d from central systems to the equipment means robotised solutions offer greater equipment flexibility and scalability. This makes the machinery particularly suitable to companies that are operating smaller equipment fleets.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, all of the equipment in the Kalmar Robotic Portfolio will be built on a standardised platform, which means that it will also be a more simplistic and cost effective process to deploy with the help of cloud technologies \u2013 the company additionally confirms that the new equipment is fully compatible with all Kalmar automation solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Lasse Eriksson, Vice President, Technology, Kalmar, sets out the company\u2019s thought process behind the new equipment: \u201cWith this new portfolio we are laying the foundations for a future driven by fully autonomous, unmanned material handling with zero accidents, zero emissions and maximum productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalmar has also introduced a new range of intelligent, flexible and autonomous mobile equipment solutions that have been designed to improve safety and eco-efficiencies but without negatively impacting operational productivity. This new equipment has been dubbed as the Kalmar Robotic Portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}