Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.80
April 28, 2023
…was intended to suitable for small and midsize enterprises (SMBs). However, ReBeL is also useful to larger organizations and educational institutions, Brockmeyer told Robotics 24/7. The ReBeL's construction allows it to be used for tasks such as inspection, pick and place, and light bin positioning. It is also suitable for food handling—for example, cracking eggs, decorating cakes, or serving goods within automated kiosks. A complete workcell for inspecting circuit boards would cost about $14,000, according to one display. A noteworthy feature of igus' displays at Hannover Messe was that its workcells showed pricing, as well as a breakdown of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.23
April 27, 2023
…robots can be used in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to perform innumerable tasks from cleaning and sanitizing to sweeping, cutting grass, serving food, fetching parts, and just about anything they can be programmed to do. As service and commercial robots become more affordable, SMBs can now consider different options. In the case of the Oyster Bar Landside, robots not only help serve customers, but they're also novelties that entertain restuaurant customers. Owner Jim Horne explained to local news that he acquired the first system, Pearl, in December 2021 from Bear Robotics, which was beta-testing the collaborative mobile robot. Bear…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.96
April 10, 2023
…dashboard. Click on image to enlarge. Source: Gravity Climate SMBs gain scalability Gravity Climate has received interest from small to midsize businesses (SMBs), as well as manufacturers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs), said ElHattab. “One of our first customers was Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry,” he recalled. “It serves the automotive industry, where everybody is being asked to disclose their emissions.” Source: Gravity Climate “Then Xometry came to us and said it had 10,000 suppliers with upstream data that could be used to show the emissions related to a given component or CAD file at checkout,” ElHattab said. “This was by process,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.10
January 11, 2023
…storage technology tailored for small and midsized businesses, or SMBs. Based on a pay-per-pick service model, Pio allows SMBs, such as retailers of apparel, sporting goods, crafts, and cosmetics, to deploy automation with a relatively low investment. The goal is to enable more businesses to gain access to its technology, said AutoStore. “We established Pio to make our technology available to smaller businesses,” said Mats Hovland Vikse, CEO of AutoStore. “Only 15% of the world’s warehouses are automated, and fulfillment operations at smaller retailers are still largely manual.” “Pio levels the playing field so that enterprises of all sizes can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.66
November 30, 2022
…of automation accessible even for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs),” Howe added. “After seeing fast and substantial return on investment from these technologies, business leaders are now looking to automate other wasteful processes within their organizations.” U.K. behind the curve on automation U.K. industrial workplaces have automated far fewer processes than most other countries and are significantly below the global average for robot adoption, Odense, Denmark-based MiR has argued. Every day, U.K. workers spend a lot of time and effort on internal logistics, it said. Now, several robotics experts in the U.K. have come together to show how British manufacturing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.39
November 21, 2022
…and beverage experience, I understand small and midsize businesses [SMBs], including the pain points of hiring, training, and retention. How has Botrista's growth gone? Hsu: We started the company four and a half years ago to develop automation to reduce the need for training and increase operational efficiency and personal productivity. A smaller headcount is easier to manage and scale for operators. We're the first food robotics company to scale to more than 20 states. We're in almost 200 restaurants, and we'll get to 1,000 restaurants next year. Botrista serves up mixed beverages What is Botrista's value proposition? Hsu: We…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.51
June 06, 2022
…dramatically reduces cost of ownership, and makes robotics available to manufacturers of all sizes, including hundreds of thousands of SMB [small and midsize business] facilities in the U.S. alone,” Kretchmer said. “It’s how we’re making manufacturers more profitable, more agile, and more competitive in the global market.” Existing customers will receive Smart Setup along with Rapid’s regular free updates to the RMO’s software and artificial intelligence. Rapid Robotics is exhibiting at Booth 3049 at the Automate 2022 trade show this week.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.78
December 17, 2021
…a challenging labor market. RaaS makes it easier for SMBs to scale Robotic automation is no longer limited to large corporations with the financial ability to heavily invest in capital equipment. Robots as a service (RaaS) is a viable option for businesses of all size and scale. The tight labor market is affecting businesses of all sizes, and robots can seamlessly fill the gaps, realigning workers to contribute in more meaningful ways. Automation is providing nimble and promising solutions to warehouse and production problems from a labor shortages. Companies such as RIOS are leading the way with RaaS through a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.06
December 16, 2021
…the restaurant industry. However, small and midsize businesses, or SMBs, have tight profit margins and are understandably reluctant to invest in new, complex technologies even as they struggle with turnover and labor shortages, according to Haitham Al-Beik, CEO of Wings. Littleton, Mass.-based Letsbutterfly Inc., which does business as Wings, is developing proprietary systems in its HiveRobotics Lab for “autonomous sustainable retail” (ASR). Al-Beik has spoken with several restaurant franchises about the challenges they face and what they want from robotics suppliers. He shared his findings with Robotics 24/7: What are some of the biggest challenges facing small and midsize food-service…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.36
August 01, 2021
…and are now seeing unfolding: Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are adopting automation at a faster pace SMBs have real paint points — they’re being hit from all angles: labor shortage, labor turnover, minimum-wage hikes, and the pandemic. They also have less of a cushion to deal with all the threats to their businesses. They’re realizing that if they don’t act now, their enterprises will slowly fold. Thus, they’re very gung-ho about automation and they’re moving rapidly to implement solutions. SMBs are becoming the de facto market for robotics companies and automation solution providers. The last mile automation in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
July 22, 2020
…e-commerce fulfillment services targeted at the small- to mid-sized (SMB) business community. As with most providers of third-party services, UPS’s e-commerce fulfillment operations are balancing growth and transformation to adapt to a rapidly changing market. And while it’s simple to attribute the changes to the pandemic, many of the trends impacting e-commerce fulfillment were already in motion before COVID-19. “When it comes to e-commerce, we expect to see a strong shift from our B2B business to more B2C business,” says Philippe Gilbert, who took the reins as president of the SCS organization in 2019. “We have been pushed for more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
October 11, 2017
…that level, but it prevents small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from getting into the automation game. Galluzzo and his team set out to find ways to reduce a customer’s risk when betting on an investment that may or may not stand the test of time. IAM now sells its AMRs through the traditional model but also developed an RaaS model to reduce barriers to entry. Robotics as a service (RaaS) enables small- and medium-sized businesses to automate without big upfront costs. “There’s a lot of creativity happening now around business models, and we’re not the only ones exploring RaaS,” Galluzzo…
