Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.46
…a robot learns to push the object against a wall or other vertical surface, rotate it and grasp its side. Taking advantage of extrinsic dexterity To grasp the ungraspable, Zhou turned to extrinsic dexterity — manipulating an object in a hand using resources other than the hand itself. She first used reinforcement learning to train a neural network, which in turn taught the robot to use extrinsic dexterity to grasp objects in its surrounding environment. In this case, the robot manipulates the object in its gripper with the help of the wall or other vertical surface. Previous research on extrinsic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.69
…announced that they have integrated Berkshire Grey's Robotic Shuttle Put Wall, or BG RSPWi, with the Locus Origin and Vector mobile robots. The companies said their “end-to-end” automation will help retail and e-commerce customers maximize supply chain productivity and throughput and address growing labor challenges. “Partnering with Berkshire Grey allows our customers to reap the benefits of enterprise-level robotic automation across some of their most business-critical supply chain processes,” stated Mike Johnson, president at Locus Robotics. “Berkshire Grey and Locus Robotics have been operating in the supply chain industry for many years now, and it’s great to see us join…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.81
…also have live demos of the Sure Sort® automated put wall. Learn more: https://t.co/2GaLxHmhhL pic.twitter.com/VrHcZG17IU — OPEX Corporation (@OPEXcorporation) January 10, 2023 OPEX to exhibit at NRF 2023 OPEX will be exhibiting at NRF 2023 at the Javits Center in New York from January 15 to 17. The Sure Sort automated putwall will be on display at Booth 769. Attendees can see a live demonstration as well as meet with automation experts during the expo, said the company. For nearly five decades, OPEX said it has collaborated closely with clients to develop and engineer customized, scalable automation to solve their…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.50
…most are used to transport order totes to the put wall or to automatically move goods from receiving to drop off to the carousels. The CartConnect AMRs are scheduled to pick up loaded order carts every 20 minutes and then deliver the payload to the putwall. They then return the empty carts back to the carousel. Waytek increases throughput With just three robots, the Zebra system is capable of processing up to 25% more orders per day than the previous fixed automation. The company said the throughput level could be scaled up higher in the future by adding more robots.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.53
…Users can then automatically determine print settings for floors, walls, infill, and fiber reinforcement. “As a cloud-first platform, Eiger has elastic compute and allows users to start setting up a problem, come up with a solution between 30 seconds and 20 minutes, and validate and optimize it,” said Kenik. “They can also monitor the health of the fleet with data streaming everywhere.” “Simulation enables our customers to adopt The Digital Forge deeper into their manufacturing operations by replacing more mission-critical tooling and end-use metal parts with validated and optimized, 3D-printed advanced composite parts with continuous fiber reinforcement,” stated Shai Terem,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.48
…can offset at least 42% of the amount they put into the fund against their tax bill, as well as other potential benefits. The British Robotics Start-Up Fund is a successor to previous funds including the British Robotics Seed Fund (1 and 2) and the British Robotics Sidecar Fund. “We've relaunched the fund to maximize that benefit and to get more cash in the sector and scale up our opportunities,” Keen said. “We previously made five to six deals a year, and now we can make 10 to 12 deals a year.” Britbots shares success stories by sector “We've had…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
…induction, robotic autobagger induction, as well as a robotic put wall solution, which can be deployed using shippable boxes in the slots of the output wall. BG also offers a robotic solution for store replenishment that can automate packing of store orders into containers. Overall, Berkshire Grey takes a turnkey approach where “intelligent automation” elements such as short runs of conveyor, linear sortation are paired with the core robotics and AI/vision tech, explains Boyalakuntla. “What’s needed is an entire systems-level solution,” he said. “This ensures the solution hits the rate needed.” Some companies have developed packaging robotics solutions without having…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.77
…longer does it have to be tethered to the wall essentially,” Danielle Collins, a product manager at Epson Robots, told Robotics 24/7 in an interview. The company is estimating the new robot arm will be popular for material transfer and machine tending applications. Customers in those industries want the flexibility of having a robot arm that can more freely navigate a facility and be used in many parts of a supply chain operation at any given time. That can be useful in situations where a facility has multiple machines spread throughout a facility that run at different times and require…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.75
…four-year-old company sells two robotic systems – a robotic put wall system called AmbiSort and a robotic modular kitting line system called AmbiKit. The company is deploying the third version of its AmbiSort system, which it noted is National Safety Institute safety compliant. The system runs on the company’s priority operating system AmbiOS. The OS takes advantage of simulation-to-reality (Sim2Real) AI technology to teach the robots to pick and place. “AmbiSort systems are full-stack sorting solutions, combining robotic picking, item analysis, and quality control with a proprietary ‘soft-touch’ end effector that handles boxes, flats, polybags, and other deformable or rigid…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.28
…have to take care of everything within the four walls of a warehouse to make it happen,” Elazary told Robotics 24/7. “If you only manage the flow of traffic in one area, say, picking, then you'll have a bottleneck at packout.” “If you're only shipping the same SKUs to stores, the flow is very predictable,” he said. “Now everybody's ordering random items at different times of the day, and 3PLs have very tight SLAs [service-level agreements] and need things out the door. We can batch items in holding zones until they're complete and push them to the truck. That was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.99
…built for speed, multiple industries As a fully automated put-to-wall sorting system, SortIE can perform SKU-wise intelligent sortation at very high speeds and at different height levels, said Addverb Technologies. The system also enables easy and rapid picking, claimed the company. Users can integrate it with existing conveying systems such as conveyors, other robots, and manual transport with no adverse impact on ongoing operations, the company said. SortIE has a speed of 3 m/s (6.7 mph) to ensure quick turnaround cycles. Combined with a Zippy sorting system, it can increase the number of destinations on a smaller footprint. Addverb said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.86
…Sort is a scalable and cost-effective alternative to traditional put wall sorting,” said Nicolas Dewit, OPEX warehouse automation director of business development for Europe, Middle East, and Asia.“ It is an ideal e-commerce solution for micro-fulfillment centers, retail stores, and distribution centers that demand a small footprint, high accuracy, speed, and high productivity in a system that does not increase labor.” OPEX said it offers a suite of modular, flexible systems that can be customized and easily adapted to meet evolving business needs, including Perfect Pick, an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that it claims dramatically improves speed, efficiency,…