US robotics company Boston Dynamics on Monday unveiled a new robot called Stretch, designed to perform one very specific warehouse job: moving boxes. Stretch is the first robot for one task that the ...

Boston Dynamics just introduced Stretch, a new robot for moving boxes in warehouses. The company is best known for creating Spot, the robotic dog. Stretch is in a pilot program now, and will make a ...

The machine features a tilting paper carriage that operates in an upward motion, reducing paper usage and minimising folds.

For all their forklifts and conveyor belts and automatic sorting systems, many warehouses around the world could not operate without a person at a loading bay pulling boxes out of the back of a truck.