https://events.apera.ai/blog the Apera Blog provides the latest robotic vision industry news, insights and thought leadership to help fuel your journey to autonomous manufacturing. en Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:03:13 GMT 2026-08-20T11:03:13Z en https://events.apera.ai/blog/what-190-manufacturing-leaders-told-us-about-the-real-bin-picking-bottleneck <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://events.apera.ai/blog/what-190-manufacturing-leaders-told-us-about-the-real-bin-picking-bottleneck" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://events.apera.ai/hubfs/Apera%20VuePod%20WEBINAR%20A3%20BLOG%20RECAP%20(1).png" alt="Blog Image: What 190 Manufacturers Told US About the Bin Picking Bottleneck" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>Last week, Apera AI CEO Sina Afrooze and VP Engineering Jamie Westhall hosted "The $1 Trillion Bottleneck: Scaling Autonomous Bin Picking," a live session on why bin picking remains the last manual station on most otherwise automated lines, and what it takes to finally automate it.</p> <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://events.apera.ai/blog/what-190-manufacturing-leaders-told-us-about-the-real-bin-picking-bottleneck" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://events.apera.ai/hubfs/Apera%20VuePod%20WEBINAR%20A3%20BLOG%20RECAP%20(1).png" alt="Blog Image: What 190 Manufacturers Told US About the Bin Picking Bottleneck" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>Last week, Apera AI CEO Sina Afrooze and VP Engineering Jamie Westhall hosted "The $1 Trillion Bottleneck: Scaling Autonomous Bin Picking," a live session on why bin picking remains the last manual station on most otherwise automated lines, and what it takes to finally automate it.</p> <img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=8890206&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.apera.ai%2Fblog%2Fwhat-190-manufacturing-leaders-told-us-about-the-real-bin-picking-bottleneck&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fevents.apera.ai%252Fblog&amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "> Robotic Vision Autonomous Manufacturing Agentic Physical AI Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:09:44 GMT info@apera-ai.com (Apera Visioneer) https://events.apera.ai/blog/what-190-manufacturing-leaders-told-us-about-the-real-bin-picking-bottleneck 2026-08-19T23:09:44Z