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Charger Logistics plans to buy up to 500 Aurora driverless trucks

The Ontario carrier would own the trucks and pay Aurora for the driving, the second 500-truck deal like it this year.

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Massachusetts town votes 510-13 to bar Amazon drone launch sites

The bylaw still waits on state review while MassDOT says Amazon needs its own state certificate before launching.

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Agility's humanoid beats a warehouse wage only past two shifts

Its filings show a leased Digit costs $8,500 a month, and every humanoid working today still sits in a fenced cell.

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Bot Auto targets $50,000 of driverless hardware per truck

Lenovo's AD1 computer goes into Bot Auto trucks starting in the first quarter of 2027.

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Symbotic buys cellumation to sell a hexagon-cell sorting floor

cellumation will keep operating under its own name from its Bremen, Germany, headquarters.

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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent from its store

Amazon acted after Meta declined its request to remove the bot.

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Flexport lets shippers' AI assistants book freight, and the shipper owns the mistakes

Flexport's terms recommend that customers require approval for bookings an assistant creates.

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Volvo and Waabi haul their first customer freight, for Warp in Texas

An observer still rides in the driver's seat on the Dallas-Houston runs.

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Holman will lease and retrofit ISEE’s driverless yard trucks

Customers can retrofit trucks they own, lease from Holman or source autonomous-ready trucks from ISEE.

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Kodiak picks IKEA's Dallas-Houston lane for its first driverless freight

The driverless leg covers 219 miles of Interstate 45 in Texas.

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Atomic raises $12.5M to automate purchasing and inventory decisions

Good Chop cut inventory to four weeks from eight or nine while more than doubling revenue.

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Amazon will spend $100M on another robot factory in Indiana

The 585,000-square-foot plant will add 300 jobs paying close to $100,000 a year.

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Aurora plans 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030, up from 200 this year

Aurora targets more than $5 billion in annual revenue by 2030.

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Kodiak autonomous trucks haul produce in California

A safety driver stays behind the wheel on the 225-mile Fresno to Los Angeles run.

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Amazon is putting an AI inventory planner inside Seller Central

Two new agents in Seller Assistant suggest what sellers should ship in and what to do with slow stock. Each of those calls carries an Amazon fee.

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Briefing

Loblaw's AI gates cut truck check-in to 3-4 seconds

Loblaw aims to automate the gates at close to half of its 26 DCs.

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Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia EV plant

Atlas humanoids are learning to sequence parts for the assembly line, with component assembly work targeted for 2030.

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FAA will start using AI to plan departures around Washington

Air Space Intelligence built the tool, called SMART, under a 12-year, $875 million contract.

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Macy's is rolling out an AI forecast for store replenishment

The department-store chain is widening the tool after a pilot as it tests AI across the business.

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Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid works without safety cages

It's also the first launch partner for NVIDIA's new Halos for Robotics platform.

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Kenco opens a vendor-neutral warehouse automation lab

The 30,000-square-foot Chattanooga lab triples the size of Kenco's original facility.

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Oracle says AI is cutting some NetSuite go-lives from months to weeks

The ERP vendor is now doing part of the implementation work integrators used to bill for, with AI migration tools and its own engineers on customer sites.

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Dollar General moves 21,000 stores onto one AI replenishment system

The RELEX platform also covers 34 distribution centers and about 18,000 SKUs.

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Maven Robotics raises $100M to scale palletizing robots

One Fortune 250 consumer goods company already runs its robots across multiple shifts a day.

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Vecna raises $31M as the FCC robot ban shifts buyers

The funding comes as US warehouse and manufacturing operators shift towards domestic robotics amid regulatory changes.