June 19, 2025

God's perspective! MIT R&D Warehouse Tracks Drones Your Express Will Be Faster

[NetEase Smart News, August 28th] A tiny, safe drone has been developed that can work seamlessly with existing RFID devices. Picture this: a miniature drone buzzing through a warehouse, capable of autonomously tracking and monitoring distant inventory, allowing staff to move materials around freely. This innovative system, created by researchers at MIT, aims to prevent inventory discrepancies. These aerial perspectives assist employees in locating specific products faster and enable teams to navigate warehouses more efficiently. Perhaps most significantly, a report detailing the system demonstrated that these small drones are entirely safe while flying within warehouse environments. They can read RFID tags from up to tens of meters away with an accuracy of 19 centimeters. However, due to their size, these drones cannot carry RFID readers with sufficient range for data transmission. Consequently, MIT's researchers designed the system so that the drones communicate with standard RFID readers. After gathering data, the drones return to the reader. This approach allows these small fleets to leverage existing RFID infrastructure, including software and tags. "From 2003 to 2011, the U.S. military misplaced $5.8 billion worth of inventory in its warehouses," noted Fadel Diab, a career development professor at Sony Corporation who helped develop this system as part of MIT Media Lab’s team. In 2016, the National Retail Federation reported that U.S. retail stores experienced shrinkage amounting to an average of $45.2 billion annually. By using drones to locate and identify items and equipment, this study presents a fundamental technological breakthrough to address these issues. RFID isn't exactly a cutting-edge technology—it has been used for mundane tasks like tracking alcohol stock, monitoring aquatic wildlife, or updating patient records in hospitals. But it's widely employed in warehouses too. Thus, the MIT system, nicknamed "RFly" in the research paper, could offer a novel method for automating inventory tracking. Particularly as Amazon starts delivering goods directly from warehouses via drones, this technology might become increasingly relevant. This article is brought to you by NetEase Smart Studio (WeChat ID: smartman163). We focus on AI and aim to explore the next big wave of innovation!

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