When Amazon acquired robot maker Kiva Systems in 2012 it triggered a flurry of industrial robotics startups and opened the door for innovators to break new ground in the field of machine grasping.

The ZA6 robot is built to industrial standards, using EtherCAT servo motors, harmonic gear drives, and aluminum castings. It can carry a 6kg payload with a reach of 975mm, requires only 20A of ...

FedEx has been testing and refining the truck-loading process in one of its facilities with robotics company Dexterity since 2023. Walmart also has introduced robots that can unload a truck.

For more than two decades, machine vision practitioners have been predicting the commercial emergence of robotic random bin-picking—the ability of vision-guided robot arms to locate and pick ...

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.