Warehouse robots at the Amazon.com BFI4 fulfillment center in Kent, Washington, on Aug. 5, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Chona Kasinger. For those who believe that the surge of interest in warehouse automation and robotics was just a pandemic fling that will fade as the labor market loosens, meet Malcolm Wilson.
He’s the chief executive officer of GXO Logistics Inc., which operates about 900 warehouses, mostly in the U.S. and Europe for customers including Nike and Nestle. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based company, which cobbles together different types of robots tailored to a client’s needs, signed up a record $475 million […]
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