Gideon, a robotics and AI solutions company, has unveiled Trey, an autonomous forklift for truck trailer loading and unloading operations. Trey loads and unloads pallets entirely autonomously, saving ...

As FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and ...

The robots are coming for the last human warehouse jobs. Loading and unloading a truck is backbreaking, mind-numbing work that retailers and parcel carriers have tried to solve for years. Workers may ...

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 ...

Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. It’s no surprise, of course. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. In the decade since Amazon absorbed Kiva, same- and ...

UNLOADING LORRIES is wearisome for people, but hardly an intellectual challenge. For robots it is the reverse. Robots never tire. They do, however, have problems interpreting the data streaming in ...

While scaling their operations to meet growing demand, Four Hands faced the challenge of managing a diverse product mix — ranging from 2-lb. lamps to 400-lb. coffee tables — across a growing network ...

Groomed for manual load and unload production applications requiring precision bonding, gasketing, potting, and sealing, the company's latest Robot Automation Dispensing Systems apply one- and ...

An automotive supplier gained lightsout operation by incorporating robots. (Top) Robots increased productivity 50 percent for a manufacturer of machined castings and forgings. A manufacturer of ...

Most shops these days need some form of automation. It’s not just about the lack of skilled labor. For the sake of pure competitiveness, shops need to find ways to reap the best utilization of their ...