Why Your Warehouse Robots Keep Crashing

AMR adoption only pays off above 50,000 sq ft facilities, and human workflow resistance, not hardware, is the top deployment risk.

• AGV vs AMR split: Legacy AGVs follow magnetic strips and freeze when blocked; newer AMRs use lidar/cameras to navigate freely but cost more and need brutal calibration.
• Dust degrades lidar: Airborne particles scatter laser beams in dusty facilities, creating false positives and unnecessary stops—addressed via sensor fusion weighting lidar against ultrasonic and thermal data.

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