It’s not a question of man versus machine, but rather how far they can go when working together.

When it comes to logistics and technology, automation and humanity are teaming up to get goods loaded, shipped, railed, trucked, stored, sorted, picked, packed and delivered with ever-greater efficiencies.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the backbone of such advances, making robots and automation not just faster, but exponentially smarter. This means more autonomous robots that intelligently zip across floors, flying warehouse drones that scan packages and RFID tags from above, and agile super robots that put human limitations to shame.

Warehouse managers suddenly have new “employees” to manage: robots. Garner projects that one in 20 supervisors will be overseeing robots,

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