Robotics, technology reshaping role of FedEx hub workers
The new FedEx world hub project is still under construction at the airport on Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Robotic arms inducting packages into small-package sort at FedEx's Memphis world hub are a sign of things to come as a $1.55 billion hub modernization continues to unfold.
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Wayne Risher
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