Robots are coming for people’s jobs in Europe, and the countries in the ex-communist east are particularly vulnerable.

No one dies for fashion in greater numbers than, it turns out, the trees. More than 150 million are cleared every year, shipped around the world, then pulped and processed into viscose.

Amazon.com Inc. is betting that stores of the future won’t have any clerks or registers. A company in Japan thinks it can get there first.

Starship Technologies plans to broaden its delivery service beyond food to include packages, a move that led it to declare itself “the world’s first robot package delivery service.”

Global retail sector technology spending will grow 3.6 percent to reach almost $203.6bn in 2019, with similar growth rates for the next two years.

What does it mean to operate a “digital” supply chain today?

At a Rolls Royce parts plant with “virtually no manual operations,” human workers continually refine automation.