For all their forklifts and conveyor belts and automatic sorting systems, many warehouses around the world could not operate without a person at a loading bay pulling boxes out of the back of a truck.

The overhead industrial robot, dubbed the Octopus, is intended for warehouses and logistics hubs everywhere where it can ...

In the fast-paced realm of e-commerce, Amazon stands as a titan, consistently pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. At the ...

In more than a dozen warehouses across the San Antonio area, Amazon robots that go by names such as Robin, Sparrow, Sequoia and Titan are doing the heavy lifting to get goods to customers this holiday ...

It can’t do back flips like Atlas the humanoid robot, nor can it dance or open doors for its friends, like Spot the robotic dog can. Instead, Boston Dynamics’ new robot, named Stretch, is going ...

A keen-eyed new robot looks poised to snag an important everyday warehouse job. Kinema Systems, a startup based in Menlo Park, California, has developed a robot capable of breaking down pallets of ...

But it needs some fine tuning. Those pallets may seem "neatly stacked" to the untrained eye, but any truck driver will throw a fit if they see you trying to load those imbalanced jenga towers into ...

Need to move a heavy load around a warehouse? Forget the forklift: a robot will do your bidding. Say hello to Freight 500, pictured, and its beefier sibling, Freight 1500. These are the latest ...

No longer content to release videos of humanoid robots doing backflips, Boston Dynamics this week unveiled something logistically incredible: a prototype of its new box-moving machine. Retailer A.S.

Under a cooperative research and development agreement with Transbotics, a Charlotte, N.C., AGV manufacturer, NIST is developing advanced sensor processing and modeling algorithms to help robot ...