Technology breakthroughs are allowing DHL and other companies to automate the laborious, injury-prone work of loading and unloading.

Boston Dynamics, Ambi Robotics, and others lead the effort to teach robots to stack packages efficiently and safely.

The big picture: As the warehouse floor becomes increasingly automated, robots now handle the most punishing aspects of logistics, while people focus on oversight, problem-solving, and continuous ...

Now that robots have arrived at the loading dock, ... based Pickle Robot, which completed its first commercial installation in the summer of 2023 and now has roughly 12 truck-unloading robots up and ...

This created several issues related to loading and unloading of trailers, requiring Four Hands to use anywhere from 8 to 10 people and up to 90 minutes to fill a single trailer. To address this ...

Slip Robotics empowers people to auto-load and auto-unload any truck in 5 minutes using SlipBot Automated Loading Robots (ALRs) -- at any dock, in any trailer, and with zero Wi-Fi or IT ...

As a result, Valeo was able to reduce their truck loading and unloading times sixfold. “It took us 30 minutes to load or unload a trailer with forklifts. Now it’s five minutes!

Slip Robotics , a startup providing automated truck-loading robots-as-a-service, has raised a $28 million Series B financing led by DCVC, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm specializing in deep ...

Among the many tough jobs in a distribution center, unloading boxes from a trailer is one of the toughest. “There’s a higher risk of injury than in other parts of the DC, and unloading was a job that ...

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. Workers ...

Slip Robotics SlipBot autonomous loading robots increase truck loading & unloading speeds at Valeo warehouse in Seymour, Indiana. (Photo: Business Wire) Valeo transformed its trailer loading ...

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. Workers ...