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…here is e-commerce fulfillment house SB Logistics in Ichikawa City, Japan (see Modern, September 2021). It uses Berkshire Grey robots to pick items from storage totes and places them in shipping boxes, among other piece-picking applications. The company says it’s the first e-commerce fulfillment center to completely automate the picking and packing processes after receiving customer orders. As Chris Geyer,…
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…new day in the warehouse. SB Logistics moves to 'lights-out' warehouse With recruitment and retention posing major challenges for distribution centers, who can blame managers for wishing for “lights-out” warehouses with no workers? For most, it's just a daydream. But in Tokyo, SB Logistics, the e-commerce fulfillment arm of SoftBank, is working to make a lights-out facility a reality. “Our…
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…have designed a new 600,000-sq.-ft. SB Logistics distribution center (DC) in Ichikawa City, Japan, about 10 miles from Tokyo. Both companies are part of SoftBank Group: SB Logistics is a third-party logistics (3PL) provider for e-commerce fulfillment, and SoftBank Robotics is SoftBank Group’s robotics division. DC design had to align with greater goals When Okabe, Ito, and their team began…
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SoftBank Robotics Corp. and its SB Logistics Corp. subsidiary, along with Berkshire Grey Inc., announced yesterday that they have partnered to offer “the most technically advanced” third-party logistics service for e-commerce fulfillment. SB Logistics said its 3PL offering includes Berkshire Grey’s Intelligent Enterprise Robotics systems, including robots using artificial intelligence to autonomously pick, place, and pack customer orders for the…
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