Most Warehouse Robots Are Solving Yesterday's Problem. Here's What the Data Says You Should Actually Fix.
Warehouses deployed 65,000 AMRs in 2025. Labor productivity at those sites increased by 3.2 percent on average. The robots themselves moved 40 percent of the goods they were supposed to move.
The warehouse robotics boom is real. Between 2020 and 2025, autonomous mobile robot deployments in North American logistics grew at a compound annual rate of 38 percent. That is not a typo. Thousands of facilities have installed these systems. The problem is that most of them are not working.
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