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5 Myths of Making Robots Work with People

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In this article, we’ll take a look at a few of these and give you the real answers on orchestrating and optimizing the work of people and robots in the warehouse. Myth #1 – Robots are well-suited for all picking styles Today there are AMR’s that can handle almost all styles of picking.

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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

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A worker stages the robot in front of container doors, and it autonomously moves forward into the container under its own power and direction as it picks boxes, up to 60 lbs from the face and more weight if picked from the top, and places them onto attached conveyor that transports the loads out of the container.