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Mobile Robots Are Helping Elevate the E-Commerce Economy

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…industrial and systems engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering stated the obvious: “This is one area where robotics and autonomous material handling can help. Robots can work for longer periods of time—not necessarily to replace jobs, but on some of the manual, non-value-added tasks. It means a change of focus of jobs, with people needed to design and…


RIT Researchers Work to Make Mobile Robots for Warehouses Smarter

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…Rochester Institute of Technology, or RIT, are developing an intelligent materials handling system for warehouses that integrates lidar sensors and artificial intelligence. With supply chain challenges brought on by the pandemic and increased demands for e-commerce, technology can provide the support businesses need to improve productivity, efficiency, and safety in a warehouse setting. “This is one area where robotics and…


Avidbots Expands Mobile Robot Offerings to Include Disinfection

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…tests Neo Disinfection Add-On at RIT Founded in 2014, Avidbots offers service and support to customers on five continents. The Kitchener, Ontario-based company has been beta testing the mobile robot sprayer at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York. “Going back four or five years now, we got our first Neo,” said Derek Sylvester, director of building environmental…


Indy Autonomous Challenge Hosts its First $1.5 Million Autonomous Racecar Competition

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…(2): Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); U.S. Military Academy (West Point) North Carolina: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pennsylvania: Univ. of Pittsburgh Texas: Texas A&M Univ. Virginia: Univ. of Virginia Wisconsin: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison “This is an extraordinary challenge, calling on the best and brightest of our university students and faculty worldwide to engineer software that will have…


Raymond supported STEM education, contributed to 75 nonprofit organizations in 2015

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…experiences. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) - Raymond supports post graduate work in Manufacturing Management at the Kate Gleason College of Engineering School. “Working in part with educational organizations, we hope to encourage students to see careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as exciting and rewarding,” said Steve VanNostrand, executive vice president of human resources at Raymond. “Raymond will…


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