Robots expected in 50K warehouses by 2025: report

Dive Brief:

• More than 4 million robots are expected to be in more than 50,000 warehouses worldwide by 2025, up from 4,000 robotic warehouses in 2018, according to a report by ABI Research. 
• A majority of the growth is expected in Asia-Pacific countries like China, Japan and South Korea, Nick Finill, a senior analyst at ABI Research and an author of the report, told Supply Chain Dive in an email. 
• "The primary way in which robots have been used so far in warehouses is for moving goods within the facility," Finill said. "Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), which follow rigid tracks or markers on the ground, and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), which navigate freely and autonomously using vision systems, are able to do this."

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