"That's a very manual intensive job, and one that's not well-liked by many," says Sally Miller, global digital transformation officer for DHL Supply Chain, the world's largest third-party logistics company. Facing a labor shortage and high turnover in these kinds of warehouse jobs, DHL Supply Chain turned to robot maker Boston Dynamics to come up with a solution. In development for several years, the first two Stretch robots have just been deployed at an apparel company, which DHL Supply Chain declined to name, and about six more will be sent to other warehouse sites over the next three or four months. Stretch is the first robot that Boston Dynamics has purpose-built for a specific set of applications, according to Kevin Blankespoor, the company's senior vice president and general manager of warehouse robotics. His is a title that lays bare the potential Boston Dynamics sees in logistics.

BrillDog, the only supply chain technology built for small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB), announces its brand new website is live, delivering vital information to educate SMBs on supply chain best practices, trends, and challenges. The site is a resource for SMBs as they look for ways to transform their supply chains with transportation management, supplier resources, freight rate quotes, analytics and reporting, freight audit and payment, inventory optimization, and more. "BrillDog was created by people who understand the challenges and issues affecting small-to-medium-sized businesses," said Sam Polakoff, Founder and CEO, BrillDog. "Our new website gives SMBs access to information that will help their business survive and thrive in these perplexing times. By educating SMBs, we hope to strengthen the profitability of these businesses."

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Workflow and process inefficiencies can cost up to 40% of a company's annual revenue. In many instances, companies seek to resolve this issue by implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) scheduling algorithms. This is seen as a beneficial tool for business models that depend on speed and efficiency, such as delivery services and the logistics sector. While AI has certainly helped with some of the time-consuming and often unpredictable tasks associated with scheduling workers across departments, the model is not yet perfect.

Robot delivery firm Ottonomy has unveiled a new Ottobot model called the Yeti with a new automated package delivery mechanism. That could allow it to do last mile drop-offs directly to a locker or remove the need for someone to receive a package, TechCrunch has reported. As shown at the end of Ottonomy's latest video, the Yeti uses a simple tilting mechanism and rollers to dispense the packages. That would allow it to drop packages onto a doorstep or transfer them to a locker, making it fully independent from humans. It may also allow for easy returns, as TechCrunch noted.

Ships are a major means of commercial transport, contributing to 80% of global goods and energy trade. However, they emit exhaust gases--from the engines when they are sailing, and from the engines and boiler when they dock in ports. These emissions negatively affect not only human health, but also the environment. Therefore, the International Maritime Organization has imposed regulations on the type of fuel used in ships. While efforts are being made to reduce the level of emissions from ships, a completely eco-friendly fuel is yet to be developed.

Trucking can be dangerous job – long, often tedious hours behind the wheel, the unpredictability of the weather and of course, other drivers. And yet, trucking is an essential part of supply chain. Most of those holiday gifts you might be enjoying right now got to you on a truck. So truck drivers are an essential part of our economy. The companies that hire and manage those drivers have started bringing a lot more technology into big rigs, including artificial intelligence and sometimes automation.

Netanyahu spoke to Fox News Digital following the release of his new memoir, "Bibi: My Story." Officials in Israel say Iran is responsible for a drone strike that hit an Israel-associated, Liberian-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday. The tanker, the Pacific Zircon, sustained minor damage to its hull with no injuries or spillage of the gas oil cargo, Israeli-controlled Eastern Pacific Shipping said Wednesday, and an Israeli official said Iran was responsible. Three maritime sources told Reuters that a drone was suspected to have attacked the tanker. An Israeli official said Iran was responsible for the attack by using a Shahed-136 drone, the type it has been supplying to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine.

An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, an official has told the Associated Press. The attack happened on Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, the Middle East-based defence official said. The official spoke on Wednesday on condition of anonymity as they did not have authorisation to discuss the attack publicly. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British military organisation in the region monitoring shipping, told the AP: "We are aware of an incident and it's being investigated at this time." The official identified the vessel attacked as the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon.

Prism Courage, a 134,000-tonne commercial tanker, recently sailed from the Gulf of Mexico to South Korea while controlled mostly by an artificial intelligence system called HiNAS 2.0. Avikus, a subsidiary of South Korean technology giant Hyundai, recently announced that Prism Courage, a tanker designed to transport natural gas, had become the first large ship to make an ocean passage of over 10,000 km (6,210 miles) autonomously. The key to this incredible achievement was HiNAS 2.0, an AI-powered system capable of analyzing different kinds of sensor readings in real-time and responding to them swiftly, efficiently, and, most importantly, in accordance with the rules of maritime laws. Just like airplanes, ships have very advanced auto-pilots capable of keeping them on a steady course, responding to GPS waypoints and currents, and even bringing them into harbor in case the human crew is no longer present on board or capable of doing it. However, sailing autonomously for tens of thousands of kilometers through the Atlantic is a lot more complex than putting a ship on autopilot. Apart from steering the tanker in real0-time, Avikus' HiNAS 2.0 system is capable of picking the optimal routes and best speeds to reach its destination, by analyzing data collected through advanced sensors.

Today's supply chains are laden with inefficiencies, as most companies rely on antiquated practices to oversee and manage how goods get from place to place. The supply chain is delicate -- even one disruption among suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers can have a trickle-down effect that causes waste, time loss, and increased carbon emissions. With the supply chain still managed manually, logistics managers are operating under intense pressure, with the sheer amount of data about material supply, demand, and transportation routes overwhelming. Even with machine learning providing managers with intelligent analysis, logistics managers can only react so quickly to the thousands of changes along a single supply chain. As managers are overburdened, their slow reactions to real-time problems and disruptions cause the supply chain inefficiencies that create higher costs, waste, and even greater environmental impact.