Webinar: Material handling made easy with automated lift trucks

The days of manual pallet jacks are gone. Autonomous, driver-assisted and teleoperated lift trucks are everywhere in industrial warehouses.

As licensed forklift operators continue dwindling, organizations have utilized automation to continue moving materials throughout warehouses.

In this roundtable webinar, panelists will discuss how lift trucks are an integral part of their material handling process, and how technological advances have overcome labor concerns for lift truck operation.

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time: 3:00 P.M. EST/12:00 P.M. PST

Questions to be addressed in the program include: 

• In what ways are lift trucks providing upskilling opportunities for warehouse employees that weren't available five years ago?

• How have advances in cameras, sensors and lidar enabled autonomous and teleoperated lift trucks to navigate warehouses?

• What are the safety guidelines in place for lift truck operation and coexistence with shelves and staff?

About the speakers

Kyle Smart
Sales Manager, Emerging Technologies, Yale

Kyle Smart has more than 10 years of experience in materials handling and automation, including eight years with Yale. In his current role, he works to solve customer challenges with lift truck automation solutions. Smart works to design solutions around the needs of unique applications across many industries, aligning implementation and performance with ROI targets and operational goals. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from East Carolina University. and an MBA from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Clay Hendricks
Product Manager, Operator Assist Technology, Yale

Clay Hendricks brings more than a decade of experience in product engineering to his role at Yale Lift Truck Technologies. He works to develop operator assist technologies that customers can use to address their most pressing safety challenges, including telemetry and active solutions that help alert operators to unsafe operating conditions. Hendricks has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Tim Culverhouse
Editorial Director, Robotics 24/7

Tim is the Editorial Director of Robotics247.com. His mission is to provide valuable information and insights to robotics professionals and decision-makers, and to help them solve business challenges. He is a creative, deadline-driven and detail-oriented storyteller.

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