Online shopping in Chinese is set to be worth RMB1.3 trillion (S$264 billion) by 2021.

With that amount of goods being delivered to individuals, courier companies had better innovate to deal with the increasing volume.

People's Daily recently shared a video showing how one parcel delivery company in China is employing an army of robots to do parcel sorting.

It reports that the company sorts up to 200,000 packages a day with these robots and it has helped the company save 70 per cent of costs a human-based sorting line would have incurred.

The robots identify a package's destination via a code-scan and thus eliminates sorting mistakes arising from human error. The robots are also programmed automatically to dock at recharge stations when they run low on batteries so that the parcel-sorting operation can run 24/7.

Here's the video of the report:

We feel it is a missed opportunity that the robots weren't painted yellow and blue and called minions.

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