Slowdown dents warehouse construction and forces automation
Faced with an ongoing dearth of available capacity, warehouse operators will have to step up ...
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AAPL: SHIFTING PRODUCTIONUPS: GIVING UP KNIN: INDIA FOCUSXOM: ANOTHER WARNING VW: GROWING STRESSBA: OVERSUBSCRIBED AND UPSIZEDF: PRESSED ON INVENTORY TRENDSF: INVENTORY ON THE RADARF: CEO ON RECORD BA: CAPITAL RAISING EXERCISEXPO: SAIA BOOSTDSV: UPGRADEBA: ANOTHER JUMBO FUNDRAISINGXPO: SAIA READ-ACROSSHLAG: BOUYANT BUSINESS
Slow to adopt automation at first, the logistics industry has seen a steady rise in recent years of companies looking to robots to address a varierty of problems. This piece from EFT Trends identifies a top 10 of the “most interesting” emerging applications of robotics in logistics. To whet your appetite, these include warehousing robots used – and not just by Amazon – to cut down the amount of time workers spend travelling around warehouses, as well as autonomous picking and packing solutions.
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