#warehouse automation
17 stories taggedwarehouse automation.

The same four things a surgical robot and a warehouse robot both need to work
A new industry report pairs a cardiac surgery suite in California with a logistics floor and finds the hardest problem in both places is the same: understanding your own process before you automate it.

Renting Robots Is Harder Than It Looks
A RoboBusiness panel in October will press the leaders of three robotics companies on the real costs of selling robots as a service, not a one-time purchase.

Agility's Digit 5 Has Human-Style Legs, Nine-Minute Charging and a Safety Squat
The updated humanoid can lift 50 pounds, work 20 hours a day, and sit on the floor to switch itself off when a person walks close, all lessons learned from three years on real factory floors.

InOrbit opens up its robot fleet software so companies can stop rebuilding the same tools from scratch
OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a free, production-ready foundation for managing fleets of robots, along with the first working version of a new global communication standard for industrial machines.

The Robot That Packs Your Sports Gear: How Comau Built an AI Warehouse System for Decathlon
An Italian robotics company has tested a flexible picking-and-packing robot inside one of the world's biggest sports retailers, and the results could reshape how your online order gets fulfilled.

Maven Robotics raises $100 million to put warehouse robots to work 16 hours a day
The Santa Clara startup beat established robot makers to its first big contract with nothing but a pitch and a factory tour. Now it has $100 million and a plan to build 250 machines.

50,000 robots, 25 million hours: Brain Corp's CTO on what comes after teach-and-repeat
John Black built one of the largest fleets of self-driving floor robots on the planet. Now he says the next shift is AI that finds its own path, with no human guidance required.

Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.

Pudu Robotics' New MP2000 Forklift Can Grab a Pallet in 20 Seconds, Without a Human Driver
The MP2000 autonomous pallet-mover reads its surroundings in real time, talks to doors and elevators, and keeps working even when the Wi-Fi drops.

More Than 200 Robot Makers, One Big Question: Are Humanoids Actually Ready?
A new industry report cuts through the excitement around humanoid robots to ask what works today, what is still years away, and what it all means for workers in factories and warehouses.

Humanoid Robots Are in Warehouses Now. What Still Needs to Work?
Four robotics experts take the stage at RoboBusiness in October to separate real progress from hype, covering safety, costs, and what it will actually take before humanoid robots show up at scale on factory floors.

Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos
Nomagic's North America chief explains how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that pack your online orders.

Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.

Warehouse Robots Are Getting Smarter. Here Is What Is Driving the Boom.
Two new market forecasts show the autonomous mobile robot industry doubling or tripling by 2030, pushed by labour costs and better AI-powered navigation.

The Robot Startup That Accidentally Became America's China-Free Moment
A Bangalore-built robotics company spent years developing its own hardware to make better robots. When US regulators banned Chinese-made machines, it turned out Ati Robotics had already done the hard work.