LATHROP - Robotics technology is the foundation of a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art, 12-story warehouse on the horizon for Lathrop’s California Natural Products (CNP) firm located on McKinley Avenue just south of Lathrop Road. Gold shovels were the order of the day Monday morning at 9 for the groundbreaking of the first phase of the storage facility being built by Power Automation Systems (PAS) directly across the street from the 300 employee strong CNP operation. The building will hold some 9,000 pallets of food products ranging from teas, soups, broths and nutritional drinks to meal replacement products.