Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland
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Two-armed Sereact robots live-sorting Zalando returns in Germany and Poland is another proof that high-mix e-commerce logistics is crossing from pilots to production. If you run warehouses, returns processing just moved higher on the automation shortlist — start benchmarking vendors on real-world SKU diversity, not demo reels.
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