In this quick Q&A, SICK’s Director of Market Product Management, Steve Aamodt, walks us through the evolution of fenceless safety.

RoviMo® is the world’s first fully electric, CO2-emission-free autonomous multi-purpose robot for large green spaces.

The new 25-metre-high warehouse for the company, which has devised a number of solutions for the confectionery and snacks sectors, will also help reduce transport costs, has a storage capacity of more than 8.500 Euro pallets.

Some early adopters of the metaverse are making real-life fortunes in the virtual world — though it's not without risk.

Delivery service Instacart has said it will build micro-fulfilment warehouses as it attempts to fend off the dual threat of newer rapid delivery apps and Amazon’s growing presence in groceries.

Bezos knew that consumer demands would be ever-changing. In the early days, simply being able to deliver in 3-5 days was considered fast. Then, Amazon Prime added the bold promise of two-day delivery which later became one-day delivery. Now, same-day delivery has become expected for many items.

Amazon spent the past two years absorbing real estate space across the United States. It built new fulfillment centers to meet ballooning demand. Now, its breakneck pace may soon be slowing as it turns its attention to other nodes of its supply chain — including heavier investments in transportation.

The metaverse consists of immersive experiences that enable people to interact in virtual worlds. It will power the next wave of innovation, including a broad range of shared experiences addressing work, gaming, e-commerce, robotics, trainings for autonomous vehicles and climate change research.

It’s not exactly “Top Gun,” but Shaw’s job at delivery startup Coco highlights a little-known fact about the autonomous delivery robot industry, which is projected to mushroom in growth over the next few years. Those cute sidewalk-traveling ice chests on wheels aren’t completely autonomous, unlike the Roomba roaming your house.

Amazon's decision to transition all in-store shoppers to Whole Foods employees is the latest sign that demand for grocery delivery is cooling — and that Amazon expects its deliveries to be faster than ever.

Walmart Chief Merchandising Officer Charles Redfield offers Progressive Grocer an exclusive glimpse what’s next for the company that already sells more groceries in the United States than any other retailer.

Almost all vendors reported fewer MFC installations in 2021 than they had expected a year prior. However, given the crippling supply-chain constraints throughout the year, With installations taking longer than expected, the evaluation period is also taking longer which meant that few end-users placed follow up orders in 2021.

Russ Tedrake, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and head of the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT, received his first Amazon Research Award (ARA) in 2017 — the first year that robotics was included as one of the ARA research areas.

As you embark on your automation journey, it’s important to assess your operations and determine if robotics automation is a good fit.

U.S. consumers will spend $1 trillion in online shopping in 2022, the highest level ever, according to a new study by Adobe .

Contactless stores are gaining traction, more so in Europe, but there are some trickling into the U.S., including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January.

Walgreens and other retailers have swapped out the clear fridge and freezer doors at thousands of stores, instead adding opaque doors with iPad-like screens showing what's inside. Some customers really, really aren't into it.

Check out inside Amazon’s Saginaw County delivery station located at 3280 Commerce Centre Drive in Buena Vista Township.

It’s a fight that both retailers are heavily invested in for different reasons, with Walmart determined to maintain its lead in its most important segment and Amazon so far failing to make its Whole Foods acquisition and newer launch of Amazon Fresh stores a formidable challenger to the category leader.