In early 2016, a staff meeting was called to introduce one Tennessee company’s newest team members.

Employees gathered in a large conference room and in rolled the much-anticipated new staffers: two robots.

The company was FedEx, and the new team members were Savioke Relay robots.

“We have an environment here where people collaborate a lot together, and the robots were immediately well accepted,” said Tracy Bailey, manager of engineering and innovation at FedEx TechConnect. “People hugged…