John Santagate, resesrch director of IDC's new Commercial Service Robotics practice, is one of the keenest observers of robotic technology trends and issues in the supply chain.

Here, he discusses with SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore why you need to consider a lot more technology than just the robots themselves in planning for success, and his take on how adoption of mobile robots in distribution is going.

Not to be missed for anyone interested in robots in the DC.

Please take a look. an excerpt from our weekly Supply Chain Video News broadcast with CSCMP.