Ryder System has joined forces with new technology suppliers to showcase smart warehouse operations, such as robotics; autonomous vehicles and drones; sensors and automatic identification tools; and wearable technology.
If you think autonomous trucks sound futuristic, Continental showed off its concept for dog-like robots that could one day be delivering packages from driverless vans.
Dog-like robots could one day be delivering packages from driverless vans, as demonstrated in a vision of the future presented by Continental at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas.
From big data to scurrying robots, warehouses and distribution centers are becoming a high-tech arena, driven by the e-commerce and omnichannel marketing boom.
A science writer in MIT's Technology Review is worried angry truckers will one day hack or "bedazzle" autonomous vehicle systems to deliberately cause accidents, Jack Roberts pumps the brakes on that idea in his Truck Tech blog.
The Huntington, Ind., campus of Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has pledged $1,000 to local high school students in a statewide Robotics competition and an additional $2,000 to support the entire event.
In his Passing Zone blog, HDT's David Cullen ponders whether self-driving trucks will just take away a job that very few people want anymore.
Starship Technologies, a new company launched by former Skype co-founders, will introduce fleets of delivery robots, which will have zero cost, zero waiting time and zero carbon dioxide emissions.