United Parcel Service is making a high-stakes bet that robots can fix one of the messiest, most labor intensive parts of modern logistics: pulling thousands of packages out of packed trailers at the ...

Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...

Pickle Robot Company, a supplier of AI-enabled robotic automation systems that unload trucks, announced it has live pilot implementations unloading tens-of-thousands of packages per month at customer ...

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 may ...

United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant’s $9 billion ...

A single robot can unload a typical truck in about two hours. The robots typically pay for themselves in approximately 18 months through the resulting labor savings, according to the people, making ...