In the “Automate the Freight” series, I’ve concentrated on stories that reflect my premise that the killer app for self-driving vehicles will not be private passenger cars, but will more likely be the ...

Have you ever received a package with an order that is tiny compared to its shipping box? Amazon (AMZN) designed the CartonWrap 1000, or the CW 1000, to tackle this problem. Yahoo Finance’s Allie ...

Sixteen teams of robotics researchers are traveling to Japan this week to help Amazon.com Inc. solve its warehouse problem. The company has a fleet of robots that drive around its facilities gathering ...

Amazon is starting to roll out new box-packing robots, which look set to make human workers even more dispensable in Amazon’s warehouses. The new robots are supposedly five times more efficient than ...

Product packaging lines are no strangers to robotics. These devices have been part of the process in various forms for decades. As technology advances and evolves, so will the applications for these ...

The Quattro s650 robot is the world's fastest light-payload packaging and handling robot, according to the manufacturer. It's 4-link parallel drive and carbon fiber construction provide up to 240 pick ...

Robots in Amazon’s warehouses are taking on a new role of boxing up orders, and they do so much more efficiently and quickly than the human workers they replace. As Reuters reports, Amazon has been ...

Way back in March, we spotted video of the SWITL, a robotic hand with a penchant for picking up globs of condiments without changing their shape. Neat, yes, but what sort of applications might such a ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based El Pinto Foods operates a restaurant and manufacturing operations, where it provides co-packing and private labeling services. The company offers a range of products, ...