{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/warehouses-to-go-white-collar-with-forklifts-operated-remotely/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Warehouses to go white collar with forklifts operated remotely","slug":"warehouses-to-go-white-collar-with-forklifts-operated-remotely","createdLocal":"2021-05-16 14:31:15.495468","publishDate":"2021-05-16 00:00:00","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/may/16/warehouses-to-go-white-collar-with-forklifts/"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>Phantom Auto, a California-based startup focusing on remote vehicle operation, has struck a deal to provide logistics equipment heavyweight Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. with software that enables forklifts to be operated remotely from thousands of miles away.\nA unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kyoto-based Mitsubishi Logisnext is the third-biggest company in the $45 billion-plus global market for forklifts.\n\"We're moving warehouse workers into office jobs,\" Elliot Katz, Phantom Auto co-founder and chief business officer, said in an interview.\nDeloitte estimates that as many as 2.1 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled through 2030.\nTo date, Phantom Auto has poured about $20 million into its teleoperation technologies, he said.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"warehouses-to-go-white-collar-with-forklifts-operated-remotely"}}}