Organizations across industries are finding ways to increase automation to improve processes, efficiency, and safety. From repetitive tasks on the factory floor to activities in agriculture, logistics, hospitality, and more, the use of autonomous machines and robots (AMRs) is changing how business gets done.

An autonomous machine or robot uses a sophisticated set of sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computing to plan its path and navigate through its environment. It employs navigation techniques like collision avoidance to slow down, stop, or reroute its path around objects, and then continue with its task.