Alert Innovation, Inc., North Billerica, Mass., partnered with Murata Machinery Ltd. (Muratec), Charlotte, N.C., develop and commercialize Alert Innovation's Alphabot material handling technology.

Stäubli, Duncan, S.C., presented a variety of food processing and packaging solutions featuring robotics.

Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., created a new, state-of-the-art facility designed to help the company develop more automation and robotics for its food production plants.

JBT Corp., Chicago, introduced FTNON CoreTakr, an innovative robotic system that uses advanced 3D camera technology to remove unwanted cores from lettuce heads used in the fresh-cut and ready-to-eat segments.

CommonSense Robotics, Israel, released a study that analyzes some of the biggest drivers of e-commerce growth and explores factors that will pose particular challenges for grocery retailers in the future.

The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, and Ocado, UK, announced plans to build a new high-tech customer fulfillment center in Forest Park, Ga.

The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, and Ocado, UK, broke ground on what is said to be the nation’s first customer fulfillment center (CFC).

Brain Corp, a San Diego, Calif.-based artificial intelligence (AI) company for the robotics industry, opened its European headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) market is expected to witness a CAGR of 10.18% during the forecast period 2019-2024, according to a study published by Mordor Intelligence, Boston.