Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...
United Parcel Service is making a high-stakes bet that robots can fix one of the messiest, most labor intensive parts of modern logistics: pulling thousands of packages out of packed trailers at the ...
Contoro’s robots leverage customer-specific AI models, innovative grasping techniques, and human-in-the-loop oversight to ensure 99%+ success rates in unloading operations. “Unloading trailers is one ...
Stretch robots at a Gap DC. Image courtesy Boston Dynamics. Among the many tough jobs in a distribution center, unloading boxes from a trailer is one of the toughest. “There’s a higher risk of injury ...