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 ...

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its ...

Somewhere in Florida, a robot "picked" a rotary tool kit in a warehouse. That small transaction was a big deal for Locus Robotics, which said Thursday the tool kit was the billionth unit its ...

Fueled by robotics and AI, and following the trend in many factories, warehouses seem to be on a relentless march toward total automation.

The bin-moving robots designed by Kiva Systems still form the foundation of Amazon’s warehouse robotics play a decade after it acquired the startup. There’s a reason -- for example -- that the ...

The Rise Of Autoguide Mobile Robots In Logistics. It feels like just yesterday we were talking about how cool it would be to ...

At an Amazon warehouse in Louisiana, Robin lifts and sorts packages. Hercules moves pods full of goods. Sequoia retrieves items to pick and pack for online orders. These aren’t the names of Amazon ...

(TNS) — Amazon employees have long worked alongside robots — but the company is now testing a very lifelike, two-legged machine to help its human co-workers with some tasks. Amazon announced Wednesday ...

Mobile robots — machines that can move around on their own using sensors and other technology — are gaining popularity, with the market’s annual revenues projected to surpass $14 billion by 2027, up ...

For decades, one of the hardest problems for robot developers to crack has been something seemingly mundane: how to replicate the human hand’s ability to pick up stuff. Amazon.com just came a lot ...

Warehousing operations have evolved dramatically in recent years, and traditional warehouses are challenged to deal efficiently with the demand variability, channel diversity and labor risks ...