If you work in any kind of storage facility or warehouse, there's a better chance every day that you're going to be working alongside robots. Magazino's TORU is a good example of the latest generation: navigating by sight, safe around humans, and simple to put to work. Laser rangers let it identify and roll around humans and unexpected obstacles, and there are no big, free arms to whack them with. No special beacons or reflectors are needed to tell the bot where it is, either; it checks its perceived environment against a stored map and deduces its position from that. A set of three TORUs are being delivered to the Fiege Mega Center, a major warehouse in Erfurt; the company's CEO, Jens Fiege, sounds appropriately thrilled in the press release: The robots of Magazino are an exciting project to digitise our warehouses even more.