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Swisslog announced that Sumitomo Drive Technologies USA will deploy an advanced AutoStore system integrated with autonomous forklifts, orchestrated by Swisslog’s SynQ software. Sumitomo Drive Technologies, a brand of Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America (SMA), manufactures power transmission and control products for a variety of applications serving customers in food and beverage, parcel handling, automotive and mining. Upgraded warehouse, assembly operations…
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…obtained with the partnership of Sumitomo Corporation, marks the beginning of Mech’s onsite use at Sagawa, which started in May 2025. Mech testing for truck unloading yielded strong results In testing at Dexterity’s facilities, the company said that Mech met and exceeded loading quality, speed and space utilization performance benchmarks defined by Sagawa Express. Sagawa Express, Sumitomo Corporation and Dexterity…
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…billion. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sumitomo Corporation participated in the round, the latter having invested in and partnered with Dexterity in 2022 to deploy 1,500 warehouse robots across Japan by 2026. Sumitomo and Dexterity recently established a joint venture to accelerate AI-powered robot adoption in the country. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup previously raised $140 million in Series B funding…
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Dexterity and Sumitomo Corporation announced the creation of Dexterity-SC Japan, a new joint venture focused on accelerating the adoption of AI-powered intelligent robotic offerings for warehouse, supply chain, logistics and other labor-intensive industrial operations. This news builds on a successful distribution agreement between the two companies in 2022. The newly formed Dexterity-SC Japan will sell, market, localize and provide financing…
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…Holdings Co., Sagawa Express Co., Sumitomo Corporation, and Dexterity Inc. have announced a partnership to leverage AI-powered robots to load parcel trucks in Japan. As part of the partnership, Sagawa Express, one of Japan's leading logistics and delivery service providers, will begin harnessing Dexterity's AI technology to power robots capable of loading trucks with randomized boxes, Dexterity explained. Before scaling…
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…18 months. Griffin cites success stories at Whirlpool, Guardian Industries and Sumitomo Drive Technologies as companies that followed a thoughtful process and benefited. So, from advancing technology and big win success stories, AGVs are not going away. However, they will continue to contend with AMRs going forward.
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…the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corp.; and ROBO Global Ventures. In addition, Henrik Christensen, a founding member of ROBO Global’s advisory board and Qualcomm chair of robotics at the University of California San Diego, has joined the company as a board advisor. Outrider plans to continue growth Since announcing its Series B funding in 2020, Outrider said it has…
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…Recent partnerships with Dematic and Sumitomo will also expand the geographic reach of Dexterity’s robots beyond the United States to the rest of North America, Europe, and Japan by the end of 2023. “Hiring Ana brings Dexterity’s ability to deploy next generation robotic technology in warehouses to the next level,” said Dexterity CEO, Samir Menon. “Her wealth of operational experience…
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…announced a strategic partnership with Sumitomo Corp. to deploy 1,500 Dexterity-powered robots in warehouses across Japan by 2026. Prior to this agreement, Sumitomo invested in Dexterity through Presidio Ventures Inc., its U.S.-based corporate venture capital arm. “The full-task robots we have deployed have only increased demand for flexible automation that can operate in existing workflows and infrastructure,” stated Samir Menon,…
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…through the extensive network of Sumitomo Corp. group companies and business partners.” “We're looking at two key markets: the core AMR [autonomous mobile robot] market in logistics, warehouses, and domestic settings,” Nicholson said. “SLAMcore also provides the on ramp to the emerging metaverse and AR/VR wearables.” “It's also an enabler for mobile manipulation,” he noted. “Developers can switch the SLAMcore…
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Seegrid Corp. today announced that Sumitomo Drive Technologies has chosen its robots for its expanding operations. The power transmission component manufacturer chose Seegrid's Palion robots and Fleet Central software to autonomously haul parts and equipment between its existing 250,000-sq.-ft. assembly facility and its new 100,000-sq.-ft. warehouse. “Reliability is a critical factor in getting parts to the line—the initial Seegrid Palion…
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…maintenance tasks.” Gecko recently announced a global partnership with energy company Sumitomo SHI FW.
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Renewable energy technology manufacturer Sumitomo SHI FW is working with Gecko Robotics to help it with inspections and other service tasks. Since July, the Espoo, Finland-based company has been using Gecko’s wall-climbing robots to service and maintain boilers in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. It has now extended the partnership and will use Gecko’s robots…
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…of Tokyo Edge Capital, Murata Manufacturing, Prologis Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, iRobot Corp., YE Digital, Yaskawa Electric Corporation and Acer Inc.
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Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
