In a bid to boost employee retention, warehouses are turning to collaborative robots to create a better workplace and lighten the load.

From autonomous forklifts to smart sorting robots, emerging technologies are taking hold throughout the warehouse as logistics services providers seek to boost productivity, improve safety, and respond to labor shortages.

As companies struggle to find workers to deal with the demands of peak season, we asked leading experts from major automation companies how robots and other automation can help. Here’s what they had to say.