Gap has deployed the mobile robots from Boston Dynamics to save humans from the tough jobs in its distribution center like unloading.

Fulfillment has arguably been the hottest robotics category over the past two years, as companies have looked to stay competitive with Amazon, even amid ongoing labor shortages. Truck unloading ...

Truck loading/unloading is an aspect of all of this that has gone woefully under-addressed. Most of the solutions you’ll see at the show this week are focused on transporting goods from Point A ...

Pickle Robot’s Series B funding from firms including Toyota Ventures is a sign of growing automation in the shipping and logistics sector.

Unlike fixed robots typically found in warehouses, it can move with relative freedom. As such, it can be integrated into more warehouses for the purpose of loading, moving or unloading boxes.

UPS is also working to automate unloading, spokesman Glenn Zaccara said, declining to provide details. The Atlanta-based courier is in the middle of a three-year, $20-billion technological ...

A robot that can touch, feel, think, and build a densely stacked wall of a wide variety of boxes in a truck or trailer? FedEx is working with a robotics company to test just such a system.

The robots are coming for the last human warehouse jobs. Loading and unloading a truck is backbreaking, mind-numbing work that retailers and parcel carriers have tried to solve for years.

MIT-birthed startup Pickle publicly showcased its container unloading robot for the first time this morning at ProMat.

Truck loading/unloading is an aspect of all of this that has gone woefully under-addressed. Most of the solutions you’ll see at the show this week are focused on transporting goods from Point A ...