The company plans to release a new robot every three-to-five years aimed at mastering a new workplace task. “We’ve definitely seen our industrial or warehouse customers interest in robotics has only increased during the pandemic.” Boston Dynamics has shown its “Stretch” robot is smart enough to react to a stack of boxes suddenly falling over, and clean up the mess. “They have almost 100 per cent turn-over in logistics jobs like picking and packing boxes,” Robert Playter told Yahoo Finance Canada at the Collision tech conference in Toronto. His comments come as Amazon (AMZN) warns it could run out of workers by 2024.
The CEO of Boston Dynamics says more warehouse operators are considering a robot workforce after COVID-19 exposed health vulnerabilities at logistics hubs.