Inbound Logistics | July 2026

A New Dimension to Robot Safety Robot safety is now 3D with acoustic detection and ranging technology (ADAR) from Sonair. Sonair introduced the first safety-certified 3D ultrasonic sensor for human-robot collaboration. Designed for autonomous mobile robots and industrial automation, ADAR One delivers 180°×180° 3D spatial awareness, detecting people

Lens, a 3D perception system for inventory and quality control. Sereact Lens provides real-time AI perception for each bin, order, and return, eliminating blind spots and keeping the warehouse management system up to date. With high-resolution stereo cameras positioned over bins and conveyors to capture events, Lens reconstructs a detailed 3D point cloud from these images. Sereact’s Vision Language Action Model (VLAM) is trained on millions of real-world picks, making it a production-ready AI brain for robots. More than 200 Sereact systems are already live across Europe, making Sereact the most deployed AI picking robot company in the world. Those systems, all running the Cortex brain, have completed more than 1 billion production picks for customers including Active Ants, Austrian Post, BMW, bol., Daimler Truck, DeltiLog, Mercedes Benz, Monta, MS Direct, PepsiCo, and Rohlik Group. One pick in roughly every 53,000 needs remote human help. Everything else, the robot handles on its own.

Every pick Cortex completes informs the model. Sereact has spent ve years training on real operations, at night and at peak. While today’s Cortex sees and picks, the Cortex 2 robotic brain anticipates outcomes before it moves. Cortex 2 and obstacles at all heights. This eliminates the blind spots that can limit 2D safety systems. Easy integration with a small footprint enables ADAR technology to be embedded flush into virtually any robot form factor, including humanoids.

thinks rst, then acts. It augments a vision-language-action (VLA) with a world model. It runs possible actions against a learned model of physics and object behavior, picks the one most likely to work, and updates in real time as the scene changes. Teradyne Robotics Unveils Production-Ready Physical AI Systems Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), offers Physical AI systems for industrial applications. Its beRobox PALTZ palletizer utilizes AI vision to redirect a UR20 robot on the y, picking up boxes even if they have shifted orientation. Its AI-enabled pallet jack and the MiR600 operate directly alongside the beRobox palletizer, retrieving pallets, exchanging positions, and returning them to their original locations to complete a coordinated material ow. Together, this creates a exible, mobile system that moves between tasks and locations without xed infrastructure, providing a practical, end-to-end alternative to humanoid robots.

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