Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.62
…delivery services. Chicago-based FarEye said it offers “intelligent delivery orchestration solutions.” “The time has come for drone deliveries to become the new reality,” stated Gaurav Srivastava, co-founder of FarEye. “Retailers are facing new pressures due to the delivery boom and consumer demand and are showing interest in innovative delivery solutions like autonomous drones.” “Customers are used to Amazon Prime-like experiences, where they can schedule and track their deliveries in real time,” he added. “We are excited to take this market-first offering to retailers in partnership with Telegrid and transform modern-day retail deliveries.” Drone Express offers retailers agility As e-commerce demand…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.69
WALTHAM, Mass.—Vecna Robotics, which provides mobile robots and workflow orchestration, today announced the appointment of Craig Malloy to chief executive officer. Malloy will focus on the company's organizational and operational needs. Founder Daniel Theobald will resume his role as chief innovation officer, and he will continue to serve as executive chairman of Vecna's board. “Craig has an impressive track record in scaling businesses across the globe, and his leadership will be integral to Vecna Robotics' next stage of growth,” stated Theobald. The global market for mobile robots will grow from $4.2 billion in 2020 to $8 billion in 2026, at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.88
…he said. “Few companies are thinking in terms of orchestration. It's still about building a robot that does something, not about running thousands of robots at once.” “There are tremendous opportunities for improvement by combining artificial intelligence and the cloud with robots,” Pestoni said. “At the end of the day, customers want two things: the ability to get all the data and make sense of it, and the ability to make continuous improvements, such as optimizing when a robot stops picking and goes to recharge.” “Enterprises face two key challenges—optimization and competitive threats,” said David Inggs, co-founder and CEO of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.29
…the first autonomous mobile robot (AMR) businesses to develop orchestration software. It said its YOUI TMS Smart Logistics System for manufacturing can improve the physical flow of robots between processes, according to the company. The system can also perform independent scheduling for overall logistics according to enterprise information systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management systems (WMS), and manufacturing execution systems (MES). In addition, Youibot said its software can complete coverage of logistics data, from the material preparation warehouse to the production line and then to the finished product warehouse. The company said its “botttom-to-end scenario, full-cycle, closed-loop…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.83
…also covered inVia's Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) offerings, Vecna Robotics' Pivotal orchestration software, and Caja Robotics' work with Advanced Handling Systems. Companies supplying robots for supply chain and automation raised more than $1.7 billion last quarter. Why all the interest around AMRs? Thanks to technical advances, they can improve safety, productivity, and serve in different functions, explained Mike Harper, vice president of sales and marketing at Chelmsford, Mass.-based AutoGuide. “With our MAX-N AMRs, not only can facility operators feel confident the robots they’re deploying can work safely around their employees, but they can also know that these robots have been successfully deployed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.31
…company will be demonstrating its latest mobile robots and orchestration software, which it claims can improve productivity across busy warehouses and factories for both humans and robots. “When you pair humans and technology, you have superhuman warehouse workers,” said Daniel Theobald, founder and CEO of Vecna Robotics. “Where you have dynamic environments, such as medical device manufacturers or big distributors, our systems can unambiguously beat our AGV [automated guided vehicle] competitors.” “Our overall goal is to have solutions from dock to dock,” said Jeff Huerta, senior vice president of sales at Vecna Robotics. “We want to do everything in between…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.83
…multiple vendors, how important are data management, integration, and orchestration of different robots? Guerry: With the arrival of new technologies like cobots and mobile robots, there is an increasing necessity to have multiple platforms working in the same company. In the past, robots and machines were often deployed as cells. In the future, integration of the systems will provide further productivity and the capability for connectivity will be a given. Communication and interoperability standards like OPC-UA will help to facilitate this process. Considering collaboration At Automate Forward last week, you participated in the session on “How Collaborative Automation Is Driving…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.34
…the orders based on store and route. This software-driven orchestration helps Kwik Trip ensure orders are picked with 100% accuracy before being sent for dispatch. The automated warehousing solution allows Kwik Trip to effectively manage all 80,000 trays and keep up with the fast-paced nature of its growing bakery business, where inventory is held no more than 48 hours before being sent to all stores. Kwik Trip’s system was developed to meet the company’s five-year growth plan, with the ability to receive all daily production from both the bread and bun lines, as well as process orders for 53,000 outbound…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.73
…capabilities to tackle the trends of the future: dynamic orchestration of the distribution network to support abrupt demand changes; optimized throughput to support high order volume of small quantities across a wide SKU assortment; optimized cycle time and velocity to support next hour shipment of products personalized to order; drive down operational costs through efficient and collective optimization of man, machine, space and energy resources; and create a differentiating customer experience through fulfilment accuracy, visibility, reliability and speed. Critical principles of a digital warehouse The first obvious, yet foundational, principle is that any warehouse digitization must be a harmonized element…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.08
…management platform built on compute-optimized hardware and Scyld Clusterware orchestration software, the company explains. TrueHPC leverages technologies from AMD, NVIDIA and others to enable a complete technology ecosystem in support of each workload. TrueHPC provides cluster management tools that allow customers to quickly and easily provision technical compute environments, and to efficiently monitor and manage them. TrueHPC can be implemented as a standalone solution or in combination with other Penguin Computing solutions and reference architectures for data, artificial intelligence, analytics and Cloud. “Building the right infrastructure and planning for the future of an HPC resource is challenging and complex for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.74
…vision to bring a holistic approach to the work orchestration in a warehouse is starting to take shape,” he said. “With Task Optimization combined with the robotics platform, we are focusing on orchestrating all resources, both human and robots, in a warehouse. This will allow warehouses to augment the workforce in times of need very quickly and provide the operations with the flexibility they need. An additional benefit to using the robotics platform is the ability to integrate multiple automation vendors in a single warehouse. The ability of this hub is to support not only Blue Yonder WMS but other…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.39
…situation the ability to revert to manual operation Pivotal™ Orchestration Engine Pivotal is the world’s first continuously-improving multi-agent orchestration engine. Once integrated with your facility’s WMS / ERP system, Pivotal constantly monitors the real-time status of an operation across automated systems, manual processes, and IT / data sources to assign the right resource to the right job at the right time. Your WMS defines WHAT needs to get done; Pivotal decides HOW best to accomplish it across all resources, ensuring every player on the team – including human workers and robots - is performing optimally in real time. Floor staff…