>>Growing numbers of self-driving machines are shuttling clothing and sports equipment down warehouse aisles, pulling bins of groceries, cosmetics and industrial parts from high stacks and handing off goods to human workers to help deliver orders faster...
who else besides Amazon stocks that sort of inventory all in the same warehouse to the same customer?
Pretty much any kind of inventory can be handled robotically - whatever the industry, from very large to pretty small operations.
Another thing they discussed in the article, is remote equipment operation. A forklift driver can can now remotely unload a truck in another State, and then cutover to another yet State, when a truck arrives there. Kind of like the drone operators who fly Predators over Afghanistan and the Middle East, from outside of Las Vegas.
Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, Wayfair, Jet... list goes on and on.
There’s also places like Shippers’ Warehouse and others that serve as distributors.