According to Universal Robots (UR), in 2019, around 38 per cent of the manufacturing labor force still moved parts manually between bins and manufacturing machines, rather than use industrial robots. Claudia Jarrett, US country manager | EU Automation According to Universal Robots (UR), in 2019, around 38 per cent of the manufacturing labor force still moved parts manually between bins and manufacturing machines, rather than use industrial robots. Why the slow adoption? For designers and engineers of industrial robots, the random nature of automated bin picking presents some of the biggest challenges.