systems employed in manufacturing have no application to a warehousing environment.

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The interest in robotics continues to grow, and the reasons are obvious. First, the prospect of a $15 minimum wage motivates warehouse operators to seek any investment that will reduce cost and improve productivity of human labor. In this area, Europeans are ahead of us, since many countries not only have high wages, but also difficulty in releasing workers who are no longer needed. Furthermore, people in Europe are well aware of an aging workforce and its ergonomic challenges. Therefore, any investment that saves human labor usually has a fast return. Second, the cost of robotics has fallen dramatically, and today there are even high school hobby groups constructing robots.

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