Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.11
June 04, 2023
…Aircraft manufacturers with an interest in AI include Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin. Edge computing: Cloud and edge computing technology can handle and analyze data from UAVs in real time, allowing for faster decision-making and more efficient operations. Frontrunners using edge computing include Intel, Thales Group, and GE Aviation. Computer vision: Machine vision enables autonomous drones to observe and interpret their surroundings, allowing them to navigate complicated landscapes and avoid obstacles. Vendors such as Rockwell Collins and General Electric are using computer vision to enhance the accuracy of their products. Swarm technology: This technology has the potential to enable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.47
May 24, 2023
…Soft Robotics is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors including ABB Technology Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, FANUC, Honeywell Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Johnsonville, Marel, Material Impact, Scale Venture Partners, Tekfen Ventures, Tyson Ventures and Yamaha Motor Co. Editor's note: For more about Automate 2023, visit Robotics 24/7's special coverage page.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.59
April 30, 2023
…picking, retrieving, replenishment, or transferring of bulk stock. Also, Honeywell’s Momentum WES utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms and data-driven optimization techniques to solve warehouse automation. The Honeywell Robotics subsidiary offers AMRs from OTTO Motors with Momentum. How do warehouse systems work with robots? Here are some specific examples of how warehouse management control (WMC) and other software can work with robotics: A WMC system can instruct an ASRS to store and retrieve items within a warehouse. For example, when a customer places an order, the WMC can direct an ASRS to retrieve and transport items to a picking station. A…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.83
March 28, 2023
…Accutech. At the Honewell Intelligrated booth, one demonstration featured Honeywell’s Smart, Flexible Depalletizer, which uses an articulating arm plus vision and AI, working in concert with an autonomous lift from OTTO Motors. Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Intelligrated, explained that this type of integrated offering is well-suited to brownfield DCs, where space constraints might make it challenging to install pallet conveyor runs into and out of a robotic depalletizer. Other vendors continued to integrate automated storage systems and shuttles with robotic piece picking. For instance, Vanderlande showed its GtP 2.0 workstation with a robotic piece-picking arm from RightHand Robotics. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.20
March 23, 2023
…warehouse operators are demanding robotics and automation, according to Honeywell International Inc. The company last week announced expanded capabilities to help companies achieve automation interoperability in the distribution center, or DC. “Forward-thinking companies are investing in robotics and automation in the distribution center to accommodate growing order volumes, fill critical skilled labor gaps, take over repetitive and dangerous tasks, and help alleviate profitability and inflationary pressures,” said Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Intelligrated. “In order to fully reap the benefits of these investments and power a true smart warehouse model, each piece of the automation puzzle must work seamlessly together…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.41
February 14, 2023
…demonstrations,” said Thomas Evans, robotics chief technology officer at Honeywell. “It's about building confidence on the customer side and proving adoption at scale.” However, “customers should have some skin in the game,” noted Caja's Barkay. “I prefer a hybrid model, or it's too easy to just move choke points in the process.” At its Manifest booth, DHL Supply Chain showed real robots, as well as Lego models of an autonomous fork truck, Boston Dynamics' Stretch, and a Locus Robotics LocusBot. Credit: Eugene Demaitre Flexibility and scalability are 3PL mantra “We evaluate different robots by where they add value, automating repeatable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.67
November 16, 2022
…Other robotics companies, such as Boston Dynamics, Dextrous Robotics, Honeywell Intelligrated, Technica, and VisionNav, are pursuing truck unloading and palletizing. How are these good problems to solve with automation, and how is Pickle's offering unique? Meyer: Truck unloading, especially floor-loaded trailers and containers, is one of the hardest jobs to hire and retain staff for in warehouses and distribution centers. National figures show that turnover is greater than 40% annually for general warehouse work, but our customers tell us that turnover for unloading floor-loaded trucks is well over 100%. This work is dirty, dull, and physically demanding, yet receiving docks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.63
November 03, 2022
…the manual tasks of loading and unloading. Boston Dynamics, Honeywell, and others have been trying to solve this big problem, but their solutions are not yet used at scale by industry. iTLS has gotten ahead. The space still needs maturation, but we've had a massive pull from our clients. Returns processing is another challenge for retail and e-commerce—how does GreyOrange help with that? Kohli: Usually, returns typically don't get merged back with the main inventory. A retailer may sell 10 shirts and get five back, but they go to different places [in the facility]. Then it gets new orders, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.33
October 24, 2022
…firms and strategic investors including ABB Technology Ventures, FANUC, Honeywell Ventures, and Yamaha Motor Co. mGripAI built for ease of integration mGripAI combines 3D perception, soft grasping, and AI to enable high-speed picking, sortation, singulation, and packaging of items from bulk presentations to bins, boxes, totes, or conveyance. Soft Robotics said it is easy to integrate. By allowing systems integrators and OEM machine builders to to automate complex processes, mGripAI helps free end users from their primary challenge—a scarce and expensive labor force, said the company. Soft Robotics partners with other PACK EXPO exhibitors At PACK EXPO from Oct. 23…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.63
October 12, 2022
…loading and unloading include Boston Dynamics, Dextrous Robotics, and Honeywell Intelligrated. GreyMatter and iTLS promise to increase efficiency iTLS—Powered by GreyMatter can enable 99% palletization efficiency and accuracy when forming rainbow pallets, said the partners. It can also improve ergonomics to eliminate worker fatigue, reduce dock turnaround times by up to 150%, and improve productivity by up to fourfold for truck loading and unloading. “Supply chain and logistics leaders now have another avenue to meet global challenges, including the current labor shortage, as cooperative robotics-human solutions are increasingly recognized by both workers and leaders as essential tools for supporting the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.09
October 06, 2022
…an autonomous forklift and has partnered with Siemens and Honeywell. The company also recently released analytics software to provide greater visibility into materials handling processes. Last month, OTTO Motors said Guidance Automation Ltd. has become the first reseller of its AMRs in the U.K. “Often, automation is seen as a complex disruption which will completely overhaul existing processes—particularly for SMEs [small and midsize enterprises],” said Paul Rivers, managing director of Guidance Automation. “But logistics businesses do not need to completely understand or have the skills and knowledge to achieve automation success.” “Instead, we will be doing this for the customer,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.12
September 30, 2022
…just getting started Other robots for unloading trucks include Honeywell Intelligrated's Robotic Unloader and Articulated Arm Loader/Unloader and Boston Dynamics' Stretch. “My opinions is that we have the best approach, but Honeywell's system is impressive,” acknowledged Drumwright. “The suction approach has been tried for 15 years, and it's hard to pick up a box from the top or a single side.” “It's a huge market out there, and Boston Dynamics can find a subset of it,” he continued. “At MODEX, Stretch was operating fairly continuously, and I didn't see it drop anything, unlike every other company, which doesn't even know…
