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Future Warehouses Will Have to Accommodate Robots Too

Some four million commercial robots will be placed in 50,000 warehouses by 2025, up from just under 4,000 robotic warehouses last year, according to ABI Research.

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CHICAGO—The average rentable building area for newly delivered warehouse product has increased by 60% nationally over the past 20 years, according to a recent report from Cushman & Wakefield. Partly this size increase is due to the larger inventories warehouses must accommodate for e-commerce flows. But another tech driver is in the mix as well: robots.

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Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.

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