Warehouses are the backbone of the supply chain industry. They are a critical link that ensures products are stored safely, tracked accurately, and dispatched timely to meet customer demands. The global warehousing and storage market
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s been a strong focus on de-risking supply chains and spreading manufacturing facilities and warehouses."It's clear that there's a strong effort to reshore back to the US,” Tom Ryden, executive director oftold me. “I think the only way you can do that effectively is with some form of automation," he adds.
Many warehouses struggle with integrating robotic solutions in a way that complements human labor rather than replace it. Poor human-machine collaboration in the workplace could lead to operational inefficiencies, safety concerns, and resistance from the human workforce. Communicating in natural language helps build acceptance of AI among human workers, facilitating smoother technology integration into daily operations. While LLMs have seen revolutionary progress in recent years in understanding human language, they have more ground to cover in stability, trust and consistency., highlights the additional practical challenges of noisy warehouse environments and the need to accommodate language diversity.