Economics
Robots Are Scaling Warehouse Shelves to Get Stuff to You Faster
- Quiet Logistics opens its first West Coast fulfillment center
- Firm plans to build more high-tech properties in urban areas
Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg
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A logistics company partly owned by Related Cos., the developer behind Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, is searching for locations across North America to build its multistory robotic warehouses.
Robots -- and humans -- started working this month at Quiet Logistics’ new 440,000-square-foot (41,000-square-meter) fulfillment center in the Los Angeles area. It’s the firm’s first property on West Coast, and a model for as many as seven more the company aims to build near population centers by 2022, with the goal of getting goods to consumers faster.