The 685,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Northern Melbourne will employ a fleet of robots that will fetch items for packing by Amazon staffers.

JD Logistics’ California distribution center maximizes throughput and operational efficiencies with Hai Robotics’ automated storage and retrieval system.

Deploying robots in the warehouse drives up productivity, plain and simple, says Stanislas Normand, managing director North America for Exotec.

The two biggest supply chain challenges today are the labor shortage and changing consumer demand, says George Koutsaftes, president and CEO of Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions.

Since robotic automation has reached a level of relative maturity, it’s time to talk about interoperability.

Warehouse decision-makers face some genuine hurdles in moving toward the widespread adoption of automation and robotics. But the benefits make it well worth the investment.

Within distribution centers, fresh and perishable food handling is usually the most inefficient and labor-intensive part of operations. It doesn't have to be that way.

Since the company was founded in 2018, Gather AI's software has been able to recover more than $1 million in lost inventory.

ResGreen will integrate its BotWay Software and LilBuddy AMRs into ProGlove’s wearable hands-free barcode scanners, increasing the productivity of supply chains, assembly lines and logistics centers.

The warehouse will see great growth in heterogeneous robot fleets over the next decade, says Dwight Klappich, a vice president and fellow at Gartner. The good news is that medium-sized companies can afford the technology.