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Brown cartons whisk by at breakneck speeds as the sound of pneumatic triggers divert the cartons onto a separate path or down a chute. Red laser light beams sparkle and scan shiny white labels on the cartons checking their contents and determining their destination. Okay, we’ll admit that it’s a little difficult to romanticize warehouse automation, but it’s amazing to…
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A report issued late last year by San Francisco-based real estate investment trust company Prologis examined some challenges the logistics real estate sector has been up against, in the form of a shortage of skilled labor and well-located logistics space. The report, entitled “Automation and Logistics Real Estate #2: How Automation Can Help Navigate Urgent Supply Chain Challenges,” is the…
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…and curbside pickup have pushed micro-fulfillment centers—smaller sites that leverage goods-to-person automation to fill online orders closer to customers—from a fringe concept to mainstream. Warehouse/DC operations and materials handling automation providers are not standing still. Starting on page 26, senior editor Roberto Michel takes a closer look at the supply chain challenges brought on by micro-fulfillment as well as how…
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If ever a time was ripe for robotic lift truck sales to take off, right now might be it. With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating e-commerce for many types of goods, fulfillment centers and manufacturing plants need to move a high volume of pallets to keep stores stocked up and e-commerce order picking systems or manual pick locations topped off with…
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Markforged has launched Onyx ESD, a new high-strength composite material for the electronics manufacturing industry. This year, many industries have leveraged additive manufacturing to withstand supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. Use of this technology for the production of electronics, however, has been limited due to barriers. Electronics manufacturers must use materials that meet electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety requirements to…
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Berkshire Grey, a robotics and artificial intelligence company delivering retail, ecommerce, and logistics fulfillment automation technologies for global companies, today announced the Berkshire Grey Partner Alliance program to offer supply chain customers more options for advanced robotics solutions. The partner program allows customers to work with world-class solution providers, accelerate the benefits of AI-based robotics in their distribution centers, and…
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Getting orders to customers quickly, accurately and at a competitive price attracts customers to omni-channel retailers like Office Depot. As one of the biggest providers of office supplies in the U.S. market, Office Depot ships about 600,000 packages each day to customers across the United States in what involves a mix of e-commerce, retail and business-to-business (B2B) orders. Fulfilling orders…
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Los Angeles-based Port Logistics Group (PLG), an omnichannel logistics services provider, recently announced it has teamed up with Wilmington, Mass.-based Locus Robotics, a provider of autonomous mobile robots for warehouses for a major initiative at PLG’s facility in Chino, Calif., in which PLG will deploy more than 150 autonomous mobile robots, or LocusBots, for its fulfillment processes. The companies said…
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According to World Economic Forum, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom, propelling a rapid move to online learning. A similar change is also happening among the professional adult learners, The pandemic is changing how engineers learn the tools of the trade, according to two leading CAD training and education providers. The shift from in-person classes to remote…
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Renowned as the company behind the leading direct-to-consumer brand for premium adult incontinence supplies, NorthShore Care Supply has evolved from a catalog Internet retailer to a direct-to-consumer brand of high-absorbency adult diapers and incontinence supplies in the United States. In doing so, NorthShore’s brand has undergone significant expansion, as the company has grown by more than 30% annually during the…
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Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced that it has passed the quarter-billion (250,000,000) units picked volume level heading into the 2020 holiday peak season. Locus robots now pick more than ten-thousand units every 15 minutes, a 263% increase in units picked vs. the same period last year. Locus’s 250 million pick milestone…
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I live in a state whose motto is “Live Free or Die.” If the third-party logistics (3PL) industry had a motto these days, it might be “Innovate or Die.” “At NFI, we have followed the guidance ‘if you’re not growing, you’re dying,’” says Sid Brown, CEO. “Throughout each generation since our founding in 1932, we have been strategic and creative…
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Non-profit food rescue organizations City Harvest and The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) have joined forces with industrial automation pioneer Berkshire Grey to bring much-needed food to thousands of families this Thanksgiving. The partnership will help feed thousands of New York and New England families through special packages of Thanksgiving foods such as potatoes, beans and stuffing that are in…
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In early 2000, Dr. Karthik Ramani experimented with a shape-based search system that allows engineers to use visual references to identify and search for mechanical objects, but it soon became clear to him the computing power was insufficient. Twenty years later, with far more computing power at his disposal, he revived the project, applying machine learning (ML) to crawl through…
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Penguin Computing, a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., has announced TrueHPC, an end-to-end, enterprise-supported high-performance computing solution powered by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking to deliver a workload-optimized HPC infrastructure, that scales to meet any workload and accelerates time to innovation across HPC initiatives. Penguin Computing TrueHPC delivers a complete software, hardware and…
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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