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One-armed robot uses generative AI to unload 1,500 boxes an hour in extreme heat

The work is exhausting, repetitive, and injury-prone. Now, robots are stepping in. The Pickle Robot Company’s AI-powered, one ...
Morningstar

Pickle Robot is in Production Unloading Merchandise for Randa Apparel & Accessories to Improve Productivity and Associate Safety and Retention

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NEW YORK, Jan. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pickle Robot Company (“Pickle Robot”), a pioneer in Physical AI delivering robotic automation systems that unload trucks, and Randa ...
Yahoo Finance

Contoro Robotics raises $12M to scale AI-powered trailer unloading

Contoro Robotics announced Tuesday it has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round to scale its AI-powered trailer- and container-unloading robots. According to a news release emailed to ...
Electrek

I got a 5-ton electric tractor from China. Here’s what showed up

When a 40-foot container rolled up to my property and the doors swung open, I finally got to meet a machine I’d only last seen half-finished on a factory floor in China. Sitting up front, nose ...
NJ.com

In the global shipping trade, one terminal is banking on automation

The Houston Express, with a length of 1,090 feet and capacity to haul 4,200 40-foot shipping containers, unloading at the Global Terminal on the Jersey City-Bayonne border. The terminal is undergoing ...
Yahoo Finance

Pickle Robots Are Unloading Trucks in Southern California to Expedite Supply Chain Processing and Ease Labor Challenges

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pickle Robot Company ("Pickle Robot"), a pioneer in AI-enabled robotic automation systems that unload trucks, today announced it has live pilot ...