{"id":226873,"date":"2025-12-10T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/pneumatic-suction-robot-clears-75000-lb-of-cargo-an-hour"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:13:34","slug":"pneumatic-suction-robot-clears-75000-lb-of-cargo-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/pneumatic-suction-robot-clears-75000-lb-of-cargo-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"Pneumatic-suction robot clears 75,000 lb of cargo an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XXR3spdIIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll likely be a while before <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/ai-humanoids\/1x-neo-housekeeper-humanoid-pre-order\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores<\/a>, but what you can count on sooner is seeing more robots in industrial settings, like factories and warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>Robots already move pallets and bins of goods across warehouse floors, replacing forklifts. There are also articulated arms involved in packaging tasks, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/humanoid-robots-assembly-line-build-themselves-apptronik-apollo-jabil\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">even assembly operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A startup founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumni wants these bots to do some heavy lifting, literally. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.picklerobot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Pickle Robot Company\u2019s robot systems<\/a> feature AI smarts, cameras, sensors, and enormous single-armed machines to unload shipping containers filled with cases weighing up to 50 lb (22.5 kg) each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019ll likely be a while before we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores, but what you can count on sooner is seeing more robots in industrial settings, like factories and warehouses. Robots already move pallets and bins of goods across warehouse floors, replacing forklifts. There are also articulated arms involved in packaging tasks, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}