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E-commerce distribution centers need all the help they can get when peak season arrives. During the holidays, robotics might be the greatest gift of all, enabling faster processing and delivery of customer orders than ever before. From inside the warehouse up to the customer’s doorstep, automation is improving efficiency, speed and accuracy. But, these robots and automation platforms need to…
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…Colorado Boulder students for a Reverse Interview Day tour at the company’s Technology Center. Students interviewed Swisslog Healthcare professionals about their career journeys while touring facilities that showcase how robots and smart technology save lives in hospitals. Automation and engineering in healthcare The October 2025 event highlighted possibilities for engineering students with technology and automation in the healthcare industry. “Visiting…
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…service E-commerce Pharmaceuticals Industrial distribution Reverse logistics Third-party logistics The company added that its scalable architecture allows for phased implementation, enabling businesses to integrate automation at their own pace while maintaining ongoing operations. The system’s ability to handle full-case, split-case and pallet orders within a single platform adds to its versatility, making it a viable system for distribution centers with…
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…Center in Chicago, Ill. Interoperability, reverse logistics capabilities Latest ProMat 2025 news: The new 560,000-square-foot facility is designed to process more than 20 million units a year. The next generation of its Skypod system, which will serve as the picking system for the whole warehouse, will consist of over 450,000 storage locations and more than 450 autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).…
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…from industry who really understand logistics and supply chain distribution.” Leveraging the experience of its team, Tompkins Robotics has designed its robots to meet industry needs. “You need to find problems that need real-world solutions and then craft a robotic solution to meet that,” Futch said. “We've built technologies, applications, software, and hardware to address real-world concerns and problems in…
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…vice president of fulfillment and reverse operations, Walmart U.S. Supply Chain, will accept and present. The NextGen Supply Chain Start-Up Award will be presented to Squint, an artificial intelligence and augmented reality technology firm. Other award winners to be presented include our Solution Provider and End User Awards. Each winner will give a short presentation followed by participation in a…
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…cargo and baggage ground handling logistics. Customer-facing terminals house security checkpoints and retail outlets. Runways, taxiways, ramps, and large grass fields make up most of the land area, while restaurants and stores inside terminals are compressed into expensive real estate. “When I think of an airport, it's like a small city,” said Cole Wolfson, director of the xBridge innovation center…
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…workflow One challenge manufacturing and logistics warehouses must consider is how to accommodate the footprint of robotic workcells. The goal is to limit how much floor space each robot takes up. “In brownfield-type sites where there's already existing work cells set up, you don't worry about fencing in a human,” Caldwell said. “But there are only certain amounts of access…
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…cost-effective automation of replenishment and reverse logistics. “In today's busy ecommerce and fulfillment warehouses, thousands of different SKUs arrive on mixed or homogenous pallet loads every day,” said OSARO CEO Derik Pridmore. “The variance and multiplicity of pallet stacks, mixed pallet stacks, box construction and box conditions can easily exceed millions of possibilities. OSARO’s robotic depal system is the perfect…
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Reverse logistics is often considered a costly and time-prohibitive endeavor. Especially during the busy holiday seasons, retailers focus heavily on order fulfilment and delivery to consumers. But it’s that next step in the process that often creates a warehouse bottleneck. As part of the reverse logistics process, robots can help alleviate concerns with warehouse backlogs and, from a financial standpoint,…
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…the biggest challenges in the reverse logistics and robotics discussion: teaching robots how to identify objects, even when the same item is presented in different boxes and in various conditions. Humans can view a box - or more specifically a collection of boxes - and decide how to pick and sort them most efficiently. How will robots and cobots designed…
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…amounts showcase just how necessary reverse-logistics operations remain as part of an organization's customer service process. Bedford, MA-based Berkshire Grey develops robotic sortation systems for retail and e-commerce distributors. In its “2022 State of Retail & eCommerce Fulfillment Report” the company found 72% of executives believed they would lose customers if they didn’t offer free returns, and 80% who saw…
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…to make B2C [business-to-consumer] e-commerce logistics easier for our clients,” she added. “With Ambi Robotics, we were able to develop a sortation system that solved a particular need and scaled it quickly across our ecommerce hubs, adding capacity for our clients ahead of peak season.” Pitney Bowes accelerates parcel sortation As global parcel volume exceeds 161 billion pieces annually, logistics…
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…mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services, today announced the successful deployment of the new AmbiSort B-Series modular parcel induction and sorting solution for middle-mile operations. This collaboration between two industry leaders advances ecommerce and logistics operations through cutting-edge automation and emerging technologies, the companies said. Following the deployment of the AmbiSort A-Series small parcel sortation systems for…
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…resource used in production, while logistics companies often begin their focus by reducing the miles traveled. This can involve mobile robots and electric vehicles, minimizing the use of diesel, or adding alternative fuels to the mix. How, then, does a major retailer like Macy’s define sustainability, and what are the levers it is pulling to meet its goals? “Each company…
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Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
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North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
