Logistics providers simply cannot keep up with the volume of parcels flowing through their fulfillment and distribution centers. This is driven primarily by the growth of e-commerce as well as players like Amazon constantly raising the bar, challenging the status quo and evolving the supply chain into a ‘hyper-local, hyper-custom, hyper-now’ reality. Consequently, logistics providers know they must evolve too by leveraging emerging robotic technologies alongside their skilled workforce to meet this challenge head on. Let's have a chat with world experts in robotics, logistics and early stage technology investing to debate where this is all headed both from a technology perspective as well as the human element.

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