Last year, when Kevin Ambrose, president and CEO of Wynright Corp., wrote in these pages about the "lights-out" warehouse, he said the concept was like Bigfoot-a mythical idea everyone in the material handling industry had heard about but few had actually seen. We're still not quite there, but we are getting close-some of us with baby steps, some with greater strides. Read our lead story this time, by Kristi Montgomery, vice president of Kenco Innovation Labs, and you will see just how close we are to a completely non-human, hands-off, fully automated warehouse or DC. In fact, she poses a highly interesting question: with robots, drones and holographic glasses now commercially available, what will the next generation of the logistics workforce look like?
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