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 ...

With supply chain resilience a top priority, companies are zeroing in on warehousing and distribution as key areas for improvement. They have big challenges to tackle, from rising labor costs and ...

Global spending on warehouse automation is poised to accelerate, driven by technological advances and rising labor costs, according to new survey data from UBS Evidence Lab. The findings highlight ...

Traditionally, material handling automation has been associated with rigid installments and operations, such as automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) which require significant investments and ...

Over the past two decades, warehouses that implemented automation have become unrecognizable to their analog counterparts. Visit any highly automated facility and you’ll spot the difference right away ...

Visit a logistics or supply chain conference, and you won’t be able to turn around without bumping into a robot or some other automation technology. A year ago, commercial real estate firm Prologis ...

Many e-commerce operations constructed additional warehouses to accommodate demand at the height of the pandemic. Once built, however, operators faced a new challenge: a labor shortage that 57% of ...

Northeast Pennsylvania’s warehousing and logistics industry surged over the past decade as e-commerce giants expanded their footprint locally with sprawling warehouses, and with new logistics parks ...

In simple terms, warehouse automation solutions, such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), carry out tasks that are labor-intensive, prone to error, and don’t require constant oversight from human ...

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 ...

Supply chain robotics and infrastructure startup Mytra Inc. says it’s going to supercharge warehousing efficiency after closing on a bumper $120 million funding round today. The company is the creator ...