The rapid growth of e-commerce and its need for an always-on supply chain means that manufacturers are having to rethink the way they move materials to and from stock and around the factory floor.

No longer content to release videos of humanoid robots doing backflips, Boston Dynamics this week unveiled something logistically incredible: a prototype of its new box-moving machine. Retailer A.S.

Comau has extended its family of small robots for quick applications in restricted spaces, including handling, assembly, and pick-and-place, by introducing two new robots: Racer5-0.63 and Racer5-0.80.

In autonomous robotics, the area of materials handling is often overshadowed by the pizzazz of self-driving cars. But a rapid shift toward automation in e-commerce distribution centers and ...

Oceaneering Mobile Robotics (OMR), a Houston, Texas-based provider of engineered products and services that focuses on applying mobile robotics to material handling applications, has deployed more ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vecna Robotics, the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and workflow orchestration company, today announced a partnership with Alta Material Handling (Alta MH). The ...

THOUGHT LEADERS I think … therefore I might be a material handling robot: interview with Ted Stinson The days when robots were limited to a set of preprogrammed responses are over. Today’s AI-enabled ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Several robotics companies have grown their autonomous mobile robot fleet in 2019 and are poised to scale exponentially over the next five years. Retail is an industry tied to ...

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 ...

Mobile robots are carving out an increasingly important role in material handling, especially in the era of e-commerce and the coronavirus pandemic. In this conversation with SupplyChainBrain ...

Illinois-based mobile equipment distributor will carry OTTO Motors autonomous mobile robots. MH Equipment says its MH Engineered Solutions division specializes in custom solutions for warehouse design ...

The latest generation of robots offers performance advances, growing integration of vision and an enlarging capability to transform manufacturing. The time: 1961. General Motors' implementation of ...