Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs Robots could help save your local store from going out of business The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated the growth of e-commerce and adoption of automation technologies in retail. While the biggest users of robots for order fulfilment are large companies like Amazon, this is starting to shift in the last couple of months. Efficient fulilment of online orders is crucial for retailers to survive the current and worst drop in retails sales since records began. As a result, robotics startups working in fulfillment, providing solutions for bin picking, sensing, and task planning, are seeing a boom, and many are working to transform smaller retailers to compete with larger players.
Last Week in AI News #67
Last Week in AI News #67
Last Week in AI News #67
Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs Robots could help save your local store from going out of business The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated the growth of e-commerce and adoption of automation technologies in retail. While the biggest users of robots for order fulfilment are large companies like Amazon, this is starting to shift in the last couple of months. Efficient fulilment of online orders is crucial for retailers to survive the current and worst drop in retails sales since records began. As a result, robotics startups working in fulfillment, providing solutions for bin picking, sensing, and task planning, are seeing a boom, and many are working to transform smaller retailers to compete with larger players.