Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. Historically, a warehouse management system used slotting and waving functionality ...

Amazon invests billions of dollars in robots to boost e-commerce efficiency and profitability. Back in 2015, the Amazon Picking Challenge tried to spur more research into warehouse automation. The ...

Diana Kovacs has grown fond of the robots that bring items to her Staff at Decathlon's Northampton warehouse used to walk more than six miles (10km) a day, picking items to send to stores or customers ...

Robots-to-goods has the potential to become the future of warehouse automation, as a technology set to define the category.

The pharmacy chain’s first highly automated warehouse uses robots to handle millions of items a week with a fraction of the ...

The robot arms train every night. About half a dozen of them, flexing in silence. They practise picking up items thousands of times over, to test whether their latest algorithms are working as ...

If you work in a warehouse preparing items for shipment, a new machine from Wilmington’s Locus Robotics may be gunning for your job. Their new robot, called Locus Array, is designed to automate the ...

Amazon's Vulcan, the first warehouse robot with touch sensitivity, has begun operations in the company's Spokane, Washington, ...

With every ProMat I attend, I’m amazed at how many new twists there are in robotic order picking systems, especially those that embed an advanced vision and artificial intelligence (AI) software layer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. AMRs can improve productivity and help to fill the hiring gap that exists in ...

Though the increasing number of warehouse robots often optimize efficiency, they can also experience a problem that some consider uniquely human: traffic jams. A group of engineers at the ...

Amazon's new Vulcan robot uses physical AI to carefully stow and pick everything from socks to fragile electronics at fulfillment centers. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech ...