Rich Blake

Amazon’s flagship Kiva robots have automated repetitive tasks previously done by humans.

The holiday rush is on, bringing with it boxes, bags and familiar scenes of shoppers knocking each other over. Less visible is the peril lurking inside warehouses.

It’s peak season for the movement of pallets all over the world.

It’s happening, along desolate highway stretches, largely in the southwest – heavy-duty 18-wheelers are test-piloting themselves.

No longer content to just release hard-to-believe videos of humanoid robots doing back-flips, Boston Dynamics this week unveiled something logistically incredible: a box-moving machine.