This article will explore how automotive tier suppliers can leverage AMRs to streamline material handling, cut operational costs and improve workforce safety—all without the need for expensive infrastructure overhauls.

In recent years, roboticists have introduced robotic systems that can complete missions in various environments, ranging from the ground to underground, aboveground and underwater settings. While several of these robots can grasp and move objects on the ground, the handling of objects by robotic systems underwater has so far proved more challenging.

Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a high-tech drowning prevention and rescue system and introduced it to a scenic water area in Central China's Henan Province on Oct. 25.