Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.06
…the ideal opportunity to showcase the real-world success leading apparel company Cutter & Buck has had in North America with FulFillX,” Hayes added. The speed and density of the AutoStore robotic cube offering and the FulfillX focused ‘pick to pack’ product was ideal for Cutter & Buck’s existing fulfillment center near Seattle. “We are delighted to work in partnership with Kardex on its innovative FulfillX warehouse execution system,” said Matt Savoie, partner sales manager at AutoStore. “AutoStore solutions are built for the future and Kardex has successfully pushed the boundaries of what cube storage can achieve to deliver the fastest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.27
…on the systems. One of our customers is in apparel, so the returns that they see are typically unpackaged goods. You open up the mailer in which the item comes, and then you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. This particular retailer had many jeans, so typical automation systems that do both sortation and picking couldn't handle the unbagged jeans, whereas our robotic picking systems could. That was because of the nature of presentation of the goods in the returns through a reverse logistics process. In the case of those jeans, we can both fulfill them and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.99
…academics. The inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator cohort included ten startups: Apparel Robotics, brd BOT, Gopher Motion, Hominid X, Mapless AI, Oligo, Robotics 88, rStream, SIMPL Automation, and Yard Robotics. During the course of the program, startups will be provided a curriculum of business topics spanning customer discovery, value proposition discovery, manufacturing, fundraising tactics, and team management. “Technical founders can often jump to product-building mode before intimately understanding their end user and customer,” said Marita McGinn, director of the MassRobotics Accelerator. “During this program, our startups will each complete at least 25 customer discovery interviews in an effort to hone in on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.86
…the Autopicker Brightpick Autopicker can also reliably pick ambient and chilled groceries, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, medical devices, polybagged apparel and more. The Brightpick solution takes weeks to deploy and enables companies to reduce their picking labor and picking costs significantly, according to the company.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.99
…Movu eligo allows customers, particularly those involved in pharmaceuticals, apparel, e-commerce, manufacturing and kitting, to realize the benefits of reliable robotic piece-picking without worrying about end-to-end integration. “Movu eligo is a data-driven, intelligent piece picking platform … that automates conventional manual operations and results in a lower cost per pick,” said Stefan Pieters, CEO of Movu Robotics. “Integrated seamlessly as a work station for the Movu escala bin storage system, eligo offers a flexible and scalable automation solution for predictable and accurate order fulfilment, adding value for warehouses pursuing improvements in efficiency, productivity, and customer service levels.” Watch this video…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.26
…technology officer for fulfillment and logistics at Boozt, an apparel retailer and prominent AutoStore customer. “We are excited about the R5 Pro, the latest addition to the AutoStore R5 series, which will bring tangible benefits to customers with large AutoStore systems that require speed,” he said. “Being able to reduce charging time during multi-shift operations offers great potential for improved productivity.” “The projected higher productivity per robot means we would need significantly fewer robots and chargers to achieve our required throughput – and also enable us to fit more SKUs within our existing Grid,” Sjölin said. “But in the end,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.71
…management. The Beijing-based company has deployed over 30,000 mobile robots for more than 700 global customers in the retail, apparel, third-party logistics (3PL), pharmaceutical, and automotive industries. Geek+ claimed that it offers “the industry's most extensive order-fulfillment product portfolio,” including its flagship shelf-to-person system, a tote-to-person-height storage system, a hybrid pallet storage and picking system, and a robotic sortation system. Geek+ said it AMRs help major brands like Nike, Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Siemens optimize their logistics using reliable products paired with after-sales services. Editor's note: Geek+ will be participating in the keynote session of the 2023 Robotics Applications Conference, presented…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.21
…business-to-consumer] operations, such as within 3PL [third-party logistics] and apparel industries.” ChainPick can save space, time The HaiPick A42T-E2. Source: Hai Robotics The telescopic Grapple Hook ACR can be integrated within HaiPick System 3, said Hai Robotics. The HaiPick A42T-E2 features a grappling hook that can pick a tote every 2.7 seconds. The ChainPick technology is key to enabling up to five-deep tote storage capacity, shortening pick-and-place times and streamlining the goods-to-person workflow, asserted the company. “Horizontal space in between totes can be slashed by 60%, ensuring no space gap at the back and hence optimizing existing warehouse storage space,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.88
…global expansion.” Founded in 1949, Adidas provides athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. The Herzogenaurach, Germany-based company has 59,000 employees worldwide, and its 2022 revenue surpassed €22.5 billion ($23.6 billion U.S.). Adidas site can process 1M pieces per day Adidas said its 139,000-sq.-m (1.4 million-sq.-ft.) automated facility can process more than 1 million pieces per day and can hold 10 million pieces of apparel and footwear. Geek+ said its robotic systems addressed various challenges in Adidas' logistics and warehousing operations. This included customizations for detecting item locations, “significantly enhancing” operational safety, and aligning human-machine collaboration with Adidas' needs. In addition, Geek+…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.18
…chilled groceries, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, medical devices, polybagged apparel, and more. Rohlik goes live with Munich deployment In June, Brightpick announced the successful completion of a nine-month pilot of its robotic solution in the Prague fulfillment center of Rohlik Group. The company has more than 1.5 million e-grocery customers and 12 million orders per year. Since then, Rohlik has deployed Brightpick's robots in its Munich fulfillment center and plans to continue rolling out AMRs in Frankfurt, Vienna, Prague, and facilities into 2024. Rohlik's system includes Brightpick Autopicker and Dispatcher robots, enabling it to fully automate picking, consolidation, and dispatch…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.57
…design, deployment, and support expertise. The wholesale distributor of apparel and accessories said it hopes to meet evolving demand and optimize fulfillment. Körber and Geek+ seek to solve supply chain complexity “The supply chain has undergone tremendous changes in recent years, with an ever-increasing demand for efficiency and productivity while continually requiring more sustainable practices,” said Lit Fung, vice president and managing director of overseas business at Geek+. “We need innovative solutions to answer new challenges to be cost-efficient and competitive while also sustainable,” he said. “Driven by huge developments in AI and machine learning, robots can help by addressing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.58
…Manipulating Fabric with Robots for Pick-and-Place Operations Project team: Apparel Robotics Corp. (principal investigator), MassRobotics Topic areas addressed: Automated robotic task planning and AI in robotics for manufacturing Description: Clothing manufacturing is a very labor-intensive process, with 80% of the total labor cost attributed to material handling, and most labor manufacturing is completed offshore. For the garment manufacturing industry to progress meaningfully towards automation, several effective fabric-handling technologies must arise. This project will develop new flexible robotic material handling capabilities required to unload a cutting table or a conveyor that has a number of cut nested fabric pieces of varying…