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A Fight Over Automation Plans at US Hydroelectric Dams
Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from…
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Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes
And when you factor in a van’s price, the cost of fuel, insurance, and depreciation, plus parking fines and congestion…
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A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over
In the early hours of Thursday morning, major US freight railroad companies reached a tentative agreement with unions, narrowly averting…
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The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups Like Jokr
It took only eight months for Jokr, the superfast delivery startup, to become a unicorn, and just six months more…
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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
The introduction of Proteus comes 10 years after Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva Systems, which became Amazon Robotics. Kiva robots carry…
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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language to Be a Better Coworker
Sales of workplace robots worldwide are growing steadily after a recent slowdown in growth due to the pandemic, according to…
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The World Has Too Much Stuff
After the famine, the flood. The past two years have been blighted by supply shortages—with just-in-time retailers struggling to ship…
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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage
As the global chip shortage stretches toward the two-year mark, manufacturers are pulling some unusual tricks to keep production lines…
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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage
As the global chip shortage stretches toward the two-year mark, manufacturers are pulling some unusual tricks to keep production lines…
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