However, when the numbers are crunched, it’s often still too costly to implement, leaving humans as the most efficient and effective for warehouse picking. Warehouse Picking Today. Industry reports ...

Unlike other robots that perform limited functions, KR1 can move, lift and think like a human, only faster and more reliably.

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 ...

One new robot, “Vulcan,” has a “sense of touch,” the Wall Street Journal reports, which lets it carefully pick up different items from the giant shelves that line the alleys in Amazon’s fulfillment ...

The Pick robot, described in a research paper, achieved an even higher success rate during its six month trial deployment, which ran six hours per day on weekends from October 2024 through March 2025.

Covariant, a startup developing warehouse robots that can be deployed faster than traditional automation hardware, has raised $75 million in funding.The company disclosed the investment today. Th ...

Amazon is close to having more robots operating inside its warehouses than humans after the e-commerce giant announced this ...

A full-blown roll-out of the warehouse-centric robot is expected in 2022. In December, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group acquired, from SoftBank Group, a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics.

While they’ll rely on robots and automation, these warehouses will operate a little differently than, say, Amazon’s. But what’s not to love about a robot that looks like a dishwasher (and doesn’t wash ...

As piece-picking robots grow in capabilities and sophistication, the nature of the relationship between humans and robots in the warehouse is also changing. Rather than replacing human workers, robots ...

The robots have traveled more than 17 million miles in warehouses, the equivalent of 35 round trips to the moon, Locus said in its statement. That may be just the beginning of the robot revolution.