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.

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 ...

Agility has also explored truck unloading for its Digit robot. Even with that added competition, we’re talking about a huge total addressable market, with room for more than one player.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Walmart wants store workers to help out customers instead of mopping up floors and unloading boxes in backrooms. So it’s increasingly turning to robots to fill those tasks.