Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]
For those of you who don&#x27;t work in the warehouse logistics space ProMat, which is to warehouses as CES is to home gadgets, is coming up in a couple of weeks so expect lots of warehouse robotics companies to continue making announcements.<p>The roboticization of manufacturing is mostly finished since factories work with identical outpus SKUs every time.  Warehouses tend to have to handle a lot of different SKU but in a fairly regular way meaning that they&#x27;re an environment that&#x27;s pretty much ripe for robots to be entering just now.  Goods to picker systems (like Kiva) have really taken off allowing robotic pickers like the one sold by us a nice ecological niche to fill.  There are also companies with robotic forklifts and all sorts of other things.<p>I&#x27;m not entirely certain that the role these bots are performing wouldn&#x27;t be better served by a large stationary robotic arm, as some other companies are working on now.  It might very well be the best solution for unloading trucks?