Production, storage and dispatch – wherever goods are manufactured, sorted or packed, there is also a picking process involved. As part of this, robots often take individual goods out of crates and put them into new groups. Festo has teamed up with partners from Germany and Canada as part of the FLAIROP project to research how to increase the intelligence of picking robots with distributed AI methods. They are investigating how training data from multiple stations, factories or companies can be used without having to release sensitive company data.