As the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred warehouse and logistics operators all over the world to implement social distancing policies, the work-from-home trend is spreading to an unlikely occupation – material handlers. Phantom Auto, a provider of interoperable remote operation software, is enabling humans sitting up to thousands of miles away to remotely operate unmanned forklifts,…

In this column, a self-driving vehicle researcher says that development and deployment of new technologies for delivery should accelerate to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.