Bremen, Berlin, Munich. 40-foot standard containers are the most common sea containers worldwide. With internal dimensions of around 12 by 2.3 by 2.4 metres, they have a cargo volume of a solid 65 cubic metres and a payload of around 26 tonnes. Emptying these containers is a difficult task that is still mostly done manually in the ports today. In future, it is to be done with the help of a new type of robot. To this end, the BIBA - Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics at the University of Bremen is conducting research with the development partners BLG Handelslogistik and SCHULZ Systemtechnik from Bremen and FRAMOS from Taufkirchen near Munich in the new project "Interactive robotic system for emptying sea containers" (IRiS).
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