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Rethinking Product Design for Robots

October 7, 2026 By: FMI Staff

A robotic arm grips a cardboard package while another carries a grocery bag, both featuring reinforced handles designed for robots. Against a blue and green background, bold white text reads: “If robots do the grabbing, packaging has to change.”

Humans aren’t the only users of household items.

As humanoid robots begin taking on tasks like shopping, cooking, cleaning, and laundry, brands may need to rethink product and packaging design.

Products today are designed for human hands. But what happens when robots become the ones picking them up, opening them, and using them?

Brands may need to rethink everything from handles and grip points to packaging shapes and opening mechanisms, designing products that work just as well for machines as they do for people.

It raises an interesting question: if a robot is the one interacting with your product, who are brands really designing for, the human or the robot?

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