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

Valeo Increases Truck Loading/Unloading Speed 6x with Slip Robotics Slip Robotics SlipBot autonomous loading robots increase truck loading & unloading speeds at Valeo warehouse in Seymour, Indiana.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 last stronghold of human labor in warehouses – the grueling job of loading and unloading trucks – is rapidly giving way to a new generation of intelligent robots.

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.