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Industrial Robotics
The latest reporting, analysis, and field notes from across the Industrial Robotics beat.
Fast-Track Fulfillment: How Six-Month AutoStore Deployments and a $7.5B Packaging Boom Rewrite the ROI Playbook
A warehouse floor that used to require months of downtime now filled a 20,100‑bin AutoStore grid in six months — live, integrated with SAP, and without major renovations. That deployment is a symptom: packaging and logistics automation is accelerating, forcing procurement teams to treat speed, not just unit cost, as the primary line item in ROI models.
Warehouse Robots Meet Capital Markets: Rapid Deployments, Rising RaaS, and the ABB Sale That Changes ROI Calculus
Warehouses are shifting from pilot projects to full production in months, not years. Right-fit boxers, AMRs and robot-as-a-service deals are pushing packaging automation toward a $7.5 billion market, while investors rewrite valuations — and ABB’s $5.375 billion divestment to SoftBank reframes how OEMs monetize robotics.
Warehouse Gravity: How M&A, RaaS and Faster Deployments Are Rewriting Automation ROI
A $5.4 billion divestment, 7,000 robotics jobs changing hands, and warehouse robotics growing faster than the factories that made them — the automation market is tilting toward mobile fleets, subscription models and rapid deployments that shave months off integration timelines and years off payback periods.
Warehouse Automation’s Fast Lane: How Right‑Fit Robots, RaaS and Rapid Deployments Are Rewriting ROI
Warehouses and end-of-line packaging are moving from proof-of-concept to profit in months, not years. Right-fit boxers, robot-as-a-service fleets and turnkey AutoStore installs are collapsing payback windows while new safety and AI standards reshape deployment risk and cost.