Robots — and humans — started working this month at Quiet Logistics’ new 440,000-square-foot fulfillment center in the Los Angeles area. AdvertisementAt the California center, in La Palma, robots designed by Quiet Logistics spinoff Locus Robotics will be able to travel long distances across the building and scale high shelves that are out of reach of humans. Quiet Logistics aims to hire about 500 full-time employees who will work in tandem with the robots at the two-story La Palma center, the company’s fifth U.S. warehouse. Advertisement“We don’t know what the economics look like,” Egan said. “We don’t know what the rents are going to be, and we don’t know what’s going to happen when the users’ lease runs out and the spaces have to be taken over by a second generation of renters.”

Source: Los Angeles Times July 17, 2019 18:08 UTC