Why opportunity charging is winning as robot fleets scale
THE SO WHAT
As robot fleets grow, charging becomes a routing and utilization problem—opportunity charging bakes energy management into fleet orchestration instead of treating it as downtime. If you’re scaling mobile robots, your real constraint may be power logistics and charger placement, not robot count.
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