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\"\"<\/a>They\u2019re collaborative, they\u2019re autonomous, they\u2019re intelligent. Fast-evolving technology in robotics\u2014now often called \u201cco-botics\u201d\u2014is allowing machines to pick, pack, tug and transport in ways they haven\u2019t in the past. Cheaper than ever, more flexible than ever, they\u2019re offering sensible solutions to the supply chain\u2019s increasing need for speed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* By Amy Drew Thompson * <\/em><\/p>\n

Valvoline. Volleyball nets. Vegan cookbooks. Viagra.<\/p>\n

A fairly disparate set of items, save the V, but they are similar in that consumers\u2014lots of them\u2014order millions of these products, often online.<\/p>\n

A recent report by Forrester projected that e-commerce is expected to grow to 17 percent of U.S. retail sales by 2022. That\u2019s a lot of Viagra.<\/p>\n

And the reality, says Tom Galluzzo, founder and CEO of MHI member IAM Robotics, is that there simply aren\u2019t enough people to do all the work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done the math on this,\u201d he says, referencing the steady climb of e-tail. \u201cRetail stores are just distribution centers where customers are doing the picking for free. American spend about 40 billion hours shopping for goods. If you were to pick, pack and ship all those items, it\u2019s the equivalent of 20 million full-time jobs. There are not enough people in the entire U.S. unemployment pool to fill that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But technology, it would seem, is limitless.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s supply chain, robotics is fast becoming \u201cco-botics.\u201d Machines are not only working effectively alongside their human co-workers, picking petite pill bottles for packaging and tugging heavy, unwieldy items across warehouses, they are working collaboratively with one another. Today\u2019s robots are liberated from the track, freewheeling units, large and small, that can self-charge, self-navigate and know the difference between a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a jar of organic honey as they hand off with precision\u2014mechanical football players at the snap.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re moving just about as fast. In some cases, at 2 meters per second.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re collaborative, they\u2019re autonomous, they\u2019re intelligent. Fast-evolving technology in robotics\u2014now often called \u201cco-botics\u201d\u2014is allowing machines to pick, pack, tug and transport in ways they haven\u2019t in the past. Cheaper than ever, more flexible than ever, they\u2019re offering sensible solutions to the supply chain\u2019s increasing need for speed. * By Amy Drew Thompson * Valvoline. 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