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Floor Care For Electrical Distribution Centers: Automating The Work Around Your AS/RS

​[[{“value”:” Electrical distributors are spending heavily on automation. Van Meter is adding 124,000 sq ft and Hai Robotics automation to its Cottage Grove, MN distribution center. Codale, a Sonepar company, opened an AutoStore-equipped distribution center (DC) in Las Vegas in October 2025. Those systems automate storage and picking, the work of an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS). The floor…

A Branch-By-Branch Robot Rollout For Electrical Distributors

​[[{“value”:” The central distribution center (DC) usually gets the automation budget. Branch warehouses get whoever is free between counter rushes. For a distributor with dozens of branches, that gap means hours every week spent sweeping aisles, cleaning up after receiving, and keeping will-call areas presentable. Autonomous cleaning robots close that gap one location at a time. Here is how to…

Where AMRs Fit In An Electrical Distribution DC

​[[{“value”:” Electrical product is heavy and awkward. Wire reels, conduit bundles, fixture cartons, and gear move between zones many times before they leave the building, and most of those moves are an associate walking a cart or a pallet jack across the floor. 1. The Moves That Repeat Receiving to put-away: inbound product to its storage location. Cut room to…

Unitree EDU vs Standard: Why The Edition Matters For Teaching And Research

​[[{“value”:” Most Unitree robots come in more than one edition. For a university, the most important difference is simple: Unitree states that only the EDU editions support secondary development. A standard edition can be operated and demonstrated. An EDU edition is the one students and researchers can program. That single line on the spec sheet decides whether a robot becomes…