Industries used to make use of articulated manipulators that were doing dull and dangerous repetitive tasks. Over time, those robots have grown modern and are capable of working alongside a human operator rather than alone in a work cell. Hence, a combination of such robots with industrial-grade ground vehicles help in certain industrial applications. One of the most common applications is machine tending. It is one of the most trending applications today and a lot of robots are getting deployed in this field. A machine tending robot is one in which certain tasks that help to "tend" to a machine are carried out by the robot. Some tending tasks are the loading and unloading of parts from a machine, assembly operations, meteorological inspections, and more.
In warehouses, mobile manipulators are common as well. These are used in material...