Robots give Greece's postal service speed boost


Robots transport parcels at the Hellenic Posts sorting centre in Kryoneri Greece October 4 2021. Picture taken October 4 2021. REUTERSAlkis Konstantinidis

Robots transport parcels at the Hellenic Post's sorting centre in Kryoneri, Greece, October 4, 2021. Picture taken October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

ATHENS (Reuters) - There's a new addition to Greece's postal service: a fleet of yellow robots sorting through the mail.

Fifty-five small, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots -- or AMR's -- powered by artificial intelligence, glide around Hellenic Post's sorting centre in Athens, speeding up an often arduous process.

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