‘Containers’ Podcast on Shipping Terminal Robots

Episode 8 of the Containers podcast (embedded below) is on the topic of ‘Robots, Piers Full of Robots.’ The podcast mentions the Los Angeles pier of robots, which we blogged last year via the Wall Street Journal; the pier’s robots look like this:

The podcast episode also skirts on trucking, transportation, laser mapping, and more:

In the conclusion of this series, we peer into the future of human-robot combinations on the waterfront and in the rest of the supply chain. We’ll hear about the strange future of cyborg trucking and meet the friendly little helper bots in warehouses. The view of automation that sees only a battle between robots vs. humans is wrong. It’s humans all the way down.

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