LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Valley’s logistics and shipping field continues to grow leaps and bounds, and more warehouses are now using robots to help their workers with their daily tasks.
FOX5 toured the latest facility opened up by AAA20 Group in the Las Vegas Valley. The company already has three local facilities, helping companies with their shipping needs or developing robot automation for companies.
Logistics and warehouse workers can be trained to operate robots to do the lifting of packages and palettes. Founder Marcus Kurle explains how major brands on shelves in grocery stores asked for solutions to prevent on-the-job injuries at their warehouses.
“It takes a toll on their bodies,” Kurle said of the repetitive lifting work that can last for more than eight hours a day. “The robot still needs labor: we need people touching buttons, not carrying boxes,” he said.
Kurle showed FOX5 the “palletizers”: grabbing boxes from a line and place them in a palette, used commonly for food producers and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Various other logistics companies use robots across the Las Vegas Valley. According to managers for different companies, depending on the complexity of the robot or the tasks required, entry-level workers and beyond can be trained to operate them.
Mechanical engineers are needed for building, maintenance and technical support.
“That’s honestly where the future is,“ said Santiago Ricoy, a UNLV graduate hired by AAA20 Group as an automation engineer who sees the growing field. “We’ve had robotic arms for decades. Now we’re finding new ways to accelerate our productivity and actually have it help us and not necessarily just replace the things that we are doing,” Ricoy said.
There are more than 80,000 logistics workers across Clark County with more than 4,500 buildings, according to the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, sourcing data from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
Data also shows a projected workforce growth (between 2020 and 2030) of more than 25,000 employees in logistics, warehouse and storage operations.
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