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Year in Review: Top materials handling news in 2018

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…2018: Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships Toyota Advanced Logistics acquires Peach State Bluff manufacturing acquires Wesco Industrial Products Honeywell announces acquisition of Transnorm for $492.8 million Columbia Machine announces partnership with OTTO Motors UNEX Manufacturing acquires SpeedCell Orbis acquires Hinkle Manufacturing FedEx partners with Vecna Robotics as part of automation growth strategy Zebra Technologies to acquire Xplore Technologies SencorpWhite and Minerva…


Bill Bastian Sr. to retire after more than 63 years in the material handling industry

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…the company was acquired by Toyota Advanced Logistics and celebrated a record year of revenues at more than $233 million USD. “Our company has seen tremendous growth and opportunity through the years,” said Bastian II, CEO of Bastian Solutions. “We owe that success to the foundation my father set and the leadership he provided throughout his career. Early on, he…


MRO Academic Insights: Getting up to speed in Alabama

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…Hyundai and a new Mazda Toyota plant that will need 4,000 employees when it is operating at full speed. In the northeastern part of the state, there’s distribution, with large Walmart, Target and Children’s Place distribution centers. All of these facilities will need trained maintenance technicians. “The No. 1 issue before people locate here is: Where are my employees going…


Materials Handling Innovation Matters More Than Ever

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…system solution providers, including Swisslog, Toyota Material Handling, Dematic, Honeywell Intelligrated and Knapp Logistics Automation. (You can read “Materials Handling Innovation (And Why It Matters)”). This year, on the heels of Modex, we thought we’d revisit the topic. But instead of focusing on the household names in automation, we asked six companies playing in the software or technology space, including…


Year in Review: Top materials handling news in 2017

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…Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships ● Toyota acquires Bastian Solutions and Vanderlande to form new intralogistics division ● Hyster-Yale acquires controlling interest in Zhejiang Maximal, Chinese specialist in utility and standard lift truck segments ● I.D. Systems to acquire Keytroller, combining leaders in mobile asset management technologies ● International technology group Körber acquires HighJump, cloud-based supply chain software specialists, and DMLogic,…


Crocs Chooses Bastian Solutions for New Automated Distribution Center

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…Exacta WES was paramount for Crocs,” he added. Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, said it is a trusted supply chain integration partner committed to providing clients a competitive advantage by designing and delivering world-class distribution and production systems.


Autonomous Vehicle Developer Aurora Innovation to Enter $1B SPAC Merger, Be Publicly Listed

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…scale passenger mobility with partner Toyota, the world's No. 1 OEM supplier, and Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing network by market cap. Late last year, Aurora acquired Uber's Advanced Technologies Group for $400 million, and it acquired lidar startup OURS Technology in February. The company is testing its systems and next-generation approaches to perception and decision-making in the San Francisco…


Intuition Robotics Expands ElliQ Robot Pilots to Extend Primary Care Into Older Adults’ Homes

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…and Greece. Its investors include Toyota AI Ventures, Samsung NEXT, and iRobot, among others. ElliQ designed to promote engagement Primary care providers encounter two major challenges in engaging older adult patients, according to Intuition Robotics. The first is lack of visibility on the accurate state of their patient in between touchpoints. Leading primary care providers have about touchpoint a month…


Zipline to Expand Drone Delivery Services With $250M in New Funding

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…first-of-its-kind strategic operational partnership with Toyota Group Announced a partnership with Walmart to bring on-demand delivery of health and wellness products to the U.S. Partnered with Pfizer to design and test delivery systems to safely, efficiently, and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines in countries where Zipline operates Surpassed 10 million autonomous miles flown and 2 million vaccine doses distributed Funding to…


OTTO Motors Announces Global Partners, Mobile Robot Safety Standards Compliance

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…including General Electric Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. The company has partnered with systems integrators around the world and expanded its global partnership program. “We partner with the very best integrators and tech leaders to provide customers with industry expertise to automate a wide range of workflows in their facilities and regional presence to provide top-tier support,” Baker said. “Seventy…


Pony.ai Claims to Be the First Company to Test Driverless Vehicles in Both the U.S. and China

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…collaborated with automotive OEMs including Toyota, Hyundai, and GAC Group. It recently partnered with Luminar Technologies Inc. to integrate Luminar's low-profile sensors into its fleets. Pony.ai readies fully driverless vehicles Pony.ai noted that its driverless robotaxi plans build on previous permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles for a fleet of six driverless vehicles. They have a total operational…


Realtime Robotics Raises $31.4M Series A for Autonomous Motion Control

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…SPARX Asset Management, Omron Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Scrum Ventures, and Duke Angels “This investment by some of the world’s leading manufacturers and automation providers stands as a testament to our ability to dramatically improve the value proposition for robotic implementations,” stated Peter Howard, CEO of Realtime Robotics. “Having already realized early deployment success, a broad spectrum of customers and…


Raymond Corp. Unveils Intralogistics Portfolio Including Automation

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…each operation's unique needs. The Toyota Industries company cited robotics, lift trucks, conveyors, maintenance, and picking systems as examples of “end-to-endless intralogistics solutions that optimize, integrate, and manage the logistical physical flows of supply, production and distribution within material handling operations.” “We're making it easier than ever before for our customers to understand the complete range of solutions Raymond offers,”…


Pony.ai and Luminar Technologies Partner on Sensors for Robotaxi Testing in Five Cities

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…currently valued at $5.3 billion. Toyota is among its investors and partners. Pony.ai has been piloting robotaxi services in the U.S. and China. Founded in 2012, Luminar provides lidar sensors and software for autonomous vehicles. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has more than 50 industry partners, including eight of the top 10 global automakers, and it signed a production deal…


MassRobotics and MassTLC to Host Virtual Robotics and AI Career Fair

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…Ras Labs Realtime Robotics ThayerMahan Toyota Research Institute Vecna Robotics Vicarious Surgical Massachusetts technology hub fosters innovation “Talent is the No. 1 reason tech companies locate in Massachusetts, and the inability to source enough skilled workers is the No. 1 constraint to growth in the white-hot robotics and AI space,” stated Tom Hopcroft, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council…


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