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Logistics and warehousing facilities worldwide deploy numerous layers of automation from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to de/palletizing systems and piece-picking robots. With companies facing labor shortages, inflationary pressures, and the challenge of staying competitive in uncertain times, the improved productivity, throughput, and efficiency provided by warehouse robots makes for a compelling proposition. At the same time, the market for...

Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom. Their club-like appendages accelerate faster than a bullet out of a gun and just one strike can knock the arm off a crab or break through a snail shell. These small but mighty crustaceans have been known to take on octopus and win. How mantis shrimp produce these deadly, ultra-fast movements...

Super-stretchy wormlike robots capable of 'feeling' their surroundings could find applications in industry and prosthetics, scientists say. A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow have developed robots with forms of motion inspired by the movements of inchworms and earthworms. The soft, wiggly roboworms can stretch up to nine times their own length and are capable of a form of proprioception—the method by...