This Fabric system takes up 6,000 square feet and can hold up to 500,000 products.

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Fabric's robotic fulfillment system can work in a warehouse or in the back of a large grocery store. The system can fulfill e-commerce and online grocery orders with a fraction of the standard staff. Robots are a popular answer to the labor crunch.

In a small brick warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, there's a 24-foot-tall cage of metal scaffolding covering 6,000 square feet that robots climb...

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