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May 30, 2025 · Today’s mobile robots are more flexible and scalable than ever, allowing more people and systems to integrate and collaborate with these robots.
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March 20, 2023 · Verity, which has developed fully autonomous inventory drones, has obtained funding from Danish investor A.P. Moller Holding to grow its staff and continue global expansion.
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May 15, 2022 · Robotics adoption is growing across supply chains and manufacturing, but a recent Peerless Research Group survey found that many operators are still hesitant.
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February 15, 2021 · Modern Material Handling editors sat down with Michael Mikitka, CEO of WERC to discuss Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) and other related topics.
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December 14, 2020 · Office Depot's deployment of collaborative mobile robots improves safety, energizes workforce.
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March 11, 2020 · Manager says new robots are the easiest part of a new fully automated production line.
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October 9, 2019 · Robotic automation solutions enable supermarket giant to optimize the picking of fresh produce.
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June 26, 2019 · A new report by Oxford Economics claims that robots are forecasted to replace almost a tenth of the world's manufacturing jobs with the majority borne by lower-income areas in developed nations.
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May 13, 2019 · In this edition of 60 Seconds with... We sat down with Brian Knott and Crystal Parrott to discuss The Robotics Group and Robotics in general.
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March 12, 2019 · Modern's staff sat down with Jeff Burnstein of A3 to discuss Automation and the Automate event.
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February 15, 2019 · A new Brookings report forecasts automation's sizable impacts on the American workforce through 2030, the authors find demographic and geographic variation in susceptibility throughout the United States based on analysis of over 300 occupations.
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October 8, 2018 · The Global Truck Study 2018 study by PwC's Strategy& indicates that By 2030, trucking and logistics will be an ecosystem of autonomous vehicles directed by a digitized supply chain, combining driverless, cabless trucks and delivery hubs staffed by robots.
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September 5, 2018 · A new study by Dr. Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and trucking expert at the University of Pennsylvania, concludes that eroding job quality should be as serious a concern as job loss – and identifies public policies to ensure a future of good jobs in the industry.
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March 9, 2018 · Modern Materials Handling staff sat down with Pieter Abbeel to discuss the state of the robotics industry.
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December 13, 2017 · Manufacturer cuts cycle time by 12 seconds with robotic CNC tenders that can work overnight.
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November 30, 2017 · As many as 800 million workers worldwide may lose their jobs to robots and automation by 2030, equivalent to more than a fifth of today's global labor force according to a new report by the research arm of McKinsey & Co.
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October 10, 2017 · Modern Materials Handling staff sat down with John Santagate, Research director for service robotics at Manufacturing Insights to talk about the current state of the industry.
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September 8, 2017 · By coupling airborne drones with smarter RFID systems, MIT researchers have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses, possibly making missing packages a thing of the past and saving retailers billions lost through faulty inventory records.
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August 3, 2017 · Small manufacturer decreases reliance on suppliers by using affordable automation to bring parts production in-house.
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July 12, 2017 · Having graduated from concept to compelling, robotic piece-picking solutions are hungry for career advancement.
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