Robotics & Warehouse Automation
Mobile robot shipments grow by 53% in 2022
The mobile robot market (AGVs and AMRs) has enjoyed strong growth in 2022, driven by increasing e-commerce penetration, a lack of labor and on-going...
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Robotics & Warehouse Automation
100,000 Mobile Robots Shipped In 2021
Just over 100,000 mobile robots (AGVs and AMRs) were shipped globally in 2021, the first time this milestone has been reached, according to data...
Robotics & Warehouse Automation
Why The UK Is Set To Become Europe’s Largest Warehouse Automation Opportunity
Warehouse automation has had a good pandemic. That’s because it’s being driven by two covid-related trends: a seemingly permanent spike in e-commerce, and an...
Robotics & Warehouse Automation
Mobile Robots On The March – 53,000 Warehouses & Factories Will Have Deployed AMRs & AGVs By End Of 2025
At the end of 2020, mobile robots were deployed in just over 9,000 separate customer sites. By 2025, deployments will have increased to over...
Robotics & Warehouse Automation
ABB’s Acquisition Of ASTI Sends A Message: AMRs Have A Big Future On The Production Floor
The recent announcement to acquire Spanish mobile robot company ASTI by global industrial automation player ABB underlines something we all knew: AMRs (autonomous mobile...
Robotics & Warehouse Automation
Zebra To Acquire Fetch Robotics – Our Analysis
On July 1st Zebra Technologies announced that it would be acquiring Fetch Robotics. It will be paying $290 million to acquire the 95% of the...
Robotics & Warehouse Automation
Pandemic Means More Warehouses, More Warehouse Automation And More Micro-Fulfillment
Total warehouse space to hit 33 billion square feet by 2025 The Warehouse Building Stock Database – a comprehensive assessment of the global warehouse industry...
Industrial Automation
Interact Analysis and Association for Advanced Automation Sentiment Survey Reveals Buoyant Optimism of Automation Industry
This March the US-based Association for Advanced Automation (A3) is running its annual trade show – Automate Forward – and conference as a virtual...
