How does a product travel around the world?
The Robot's Journey
How does a product travel around the world?
You order something online — click — and a few days later, it arrives at your door. But where was it before? That smartphone, those sneakers, that book didn't just appear. They traveled halfway around the world to find you, and the journey is wilder than you think.
It starts in a factory. Let's say it's a toy robot, built in a factory in China. Thousands of them roll off the assembly line every day, get packed into cardboard boxes, and those boxes get stacked onto wooden pallets. A forklift loads the pallets onto a truck, and the journey begins.
