Sixteen teams of robotics researchers are traveling to Japan this week to help Amazon.com Inc. solve its warehouse problem. The company has a fleet of robots that drive around its facilities gathering ...

In the “Automate the Freight” series, I’ve concentrated on stories that reflect my premise that the killer app for self-driving vehicles will not be private passenger cars, but will more likely be the ...

Amazon is starting to roll out new box-packing robots, which look set to make human workers even more dispensable in Amazon’s warehouses. The new robots are supposedly five times more efficient than ...

Newark, Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Packaging robots market was estimated at around USD 4 billion in 2021, growing at a CAGR of nearly 9% during 2022-2030. The market is projected to reach ...

Way back in March, we spotted video of the SWITL, a robotic hand with a penchant for picking up globs of condiments without changing their shape. Neat, yes, but what sort of applications might such a ...

There was only one job that robots could not do when Fast Retailing, the owner of Uniqlo, replaced 90% of its workers with robots at its flagship warehouse in Tokyo last year. But now, with the help ...