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

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

Home furnishings company Four Hands uses Slip Robotics’ SlipBots to drive a 4x increase in throughput, a 75% reduction in trailer unload time and a 50% reduction in loading time. Slip Robotics SlipBot ...

Robot vendor Boston Dynamics may be best known for the viral videos of its two-legged “Atlas” model or its four-legged “Spot” unit, but the company has now unveiled a wheeled design intended to cruise ...

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 ...

So, how close are we to a viable, general-purpose humanoid? One that can not only do something useful (beyond being an entertaining distraction, like Ameca), but also demonstrate a genuine ROI? In ...

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.

FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery trucks with expert care.

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

The next task, which all three companies are now engaged in, is to run the unloading process in reverse by using robots to load lorries in the first place.