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DHL Supply Chain CIO Sally Miller Names the Three Vendors Running 8,000 Robots Across 2,800 Global Sites — Locus, Boston Dynamics, Robust AI — And Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: 「Does It Reduce Our Dependency on Labor? Yes, It Does. If Anyone Says Otherwise, I Don't Think They Are Being Truthful.」 — Fortune, May 20, 2026 Robotics

DHL Supply Chain CIO Sally Miller Names the Three Vendors Running 8,000 Robots Across 2,800 Global Sites — Locus, Boston Dynamics, Robust AI — And Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: 「Does It Reduce Our Dependency on Labor? Yes, It Does. If Anyone Says Otherwise, I Don't Think They Are Being Truthful.」 — Fortune, May 20, 2026

DHL's global CIO breaks the robotics-deployment script the industry has been using for two years and tells Fortune what the executive memo always omits: yes, fewer jobs, and the people left actually like it.

#dhl#locus-robotics#boston-dynamics
Accenture, SAP and Vodafone Just Piloted a Humanoid Robot in a Duisburg Warehouse. The Giveaway Line in the Press Release: It Will 「Lower Overtime Costs and the Dependency on Temporary Labor」. Robotics

Accenture, SAP and Vodafone Just Piloted a Humanoid Robot in a Duisburg Warehouse. The Giveaway Line in the Press Release: It Will 「Lower Overtime Costs and the Dependency on Temporary Labor」.

Three of the largest IT and telecom brands in Europe used Hannover Messe 2026 to announce that a humanoid robot has been doing warehouse inspections inside Vodafone Procure & Connect's Duisburg facility. The pilot is pitched as 'safety-enhancing.' The press release also says, out loud, that it will reduce overtime and temp-labor spend.

#accenture#sap#vodafone