{"id":725877,"date":"2026-08-03T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:14:11","slug":"britains-warehouses-are-filling-up-with-chinese-robots-insurers-arent-ready-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725877\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s warehouses are filling up with Chinese robots. Insurers aren&#8217;t ready for them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is specific and a bit strange. Almost every mobile warehouse robot on the market relies on the same basic lidar sensor &#8211; a laser that stops the machine dead the moment something crosses a fixed distance. It&#8217;s a blunt tool, but insurers and certifiers understand it, so it&#8217;s easy to price. Vision-based systems that use cameras and AI to judge distance and behaviour are often far more capable, but their decision-making is probabilistic rather than fixed, so they don&#8217;t fit existing safety certification frameworks. Founders at the roundtable said customers were blunt about the result: no laser, no cover. One participant said the regulation, and the insurance market sitting behind it, effectively discourages firms from doing anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problem is specific and a bit strange. Almost every mobile warehouse robot on the market relies on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[240005,59,57,58,1349,50,56,54,55,43910],"class_list":["post-725877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-chinese-robots","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-insurance","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-warehouses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}