Smaller American retailers are turning to robots to automate warehouse work, techniques long used by Amazon and others, spurred on by the pandemic (Will Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Smaller American retailers are turning to robots to automate warehouse work, techniques long used by Amazon and others, spurred on by the pandemic  —  Big online stores are based around vast automated warehouses.  Smaller and cheaper versions of this tech will be key if smaller stores are to survive through a series of lockdowns.

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