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Introducing TruckBot: A Marvelous Machine

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The past couple of years have gone from a few select companies to seemingly everyone in and around warehouse robotics looking to tackle the problem. And then there’s TruckBot. Instead, TruckBot sat atop a conveyer belt. In fact, TruckBot is actually part conveyer belt. “TruckBot is a game-changer for warehouses looking to streamline their operations and reduce costs,” the company notes.” The dock door is the largest bottleneck in our supply chain and unloading trailers is back-breaking work.

Farewell of Dextrous Robotics: An End to an Era

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Memphis-based Dextrous Robotics is calling it a day. The news, noted by the Robot Report, was confirmed by the warehouse robotics firm’s CEO, Evan Drumwright, on LinkedIn. Last year, Dextrous made headlines for its novel approach to truck unloading. The titular dexterity (not to be confused with fellow truck unloading robot firm Dexterity AI) allows the system to approach boxes from a variety of vantage points and angles. “We started Dextrous Robotics four years ago to organize our world with machines and focused on automating one of the most dangerous tasks in the industrialized world,” says Drumwright.

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