A Killer App For Warehouse Robots
Warehouse robots that load and unload truck trailers and containers remains a hot area of the warehouse automation market.
When I returned from ProMat in 2023, I wrote that based on the number of automation solutions I saw at the conference focused on this application, “loading and unloading trailers/containers is apparently a killer app for warehouse robots.” In my post, I highlighted solutions in this area by ArcBest, Pickle Robot Company, Boston Dynamics, Slip Robotics, and Mujin Corp.
Fast forward a couple of years and trailer loading/unloading remains “The Holy Grail of Automation,” as Esther Fung refers to it in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Here are some excerpts:
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