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The thing that comes to mind is a series of Anne Mc Caffrey's, which included both novels and short stories, where there were people who could teleport objects with their minds, then one of them found a way to increase the range of his abilities using a kind of electric generator, and it ended up in The Future with Casual Interstellar Travel because with a big enough generator, one person could teleport entire spaceships to distant planets.
I'm not at all confident this is relevant, but it came to mind, so I mention it in case.

There is a short science fiction story in which people can send cargo with their minds, and machines would be on the receiveing end. I don't remember the title of it, any thoughts on what the title might be?