Ergonomic & Assist Equipment

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Having trouble finding workers for dull, dangerous, or dirty tasks? For more and more DCs, the answer is a robot.

At Italpasta, an automated palletizing system makes stacking oodles of noodles easy.

We're likely to see more robots in DCs within the decade. But Tom Bonkenburg says the first wave will probably look a lot more like driverless forklifts than R2-D2 or C-3PO.

We won't have androids picking eaches any time soon, but robots used in distribution centers are becoming more sophisticated and moving deeper into operations.