Watch an army of robots efficiently sorting hundreds of thousands of packages

These robots are sorting out packages faster than you can say delivery.

A video showing an army of tiny little yellow robots sorting out packages in a Chinese factory is the latest example of how automation is seeping into many industries.

The Shentong Express (STO) factory in Tianjin is China's largest fully automated sorting plant in the delivery industry.

The robots can be seen carrying their parcels away to different areas across the sorting centre, then depositing them into underground chutes.

Once in the plant, all packages get distributed within just three-and-a-half hours. Read more...