Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.06
…satellite connection—because bandwidth can be limited and costly to shuttle from its robust suite of sensors producing high-resolution imagery. The USVs have oceanographic sensors for measurement of wind, temperature, salinity and dissolved carbon. Saildrone said it also enables research of ocean and lake floors with bathymetric sensors, including deep sonar mapping with single- or multi-beam for going deeper or wider. Saildrone's perceptual suite also includes radar and visual underwater acoustic sensors. DeepStream goes into the deep sea Saildrone has used the NVIDIA DeepStream SDK for its vision AI applications and services. Developers can build seamless streaming pipelines for AI-based video,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.15
…trucks, piece-picking and goods-to-person systems, robotic putwalls, and even shuttles in an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). While they can all operate in the same facility, they don’t typically interface with or talk to one another. They are islands of automation. That’s a blast from the past that wasn’t a compliment in the 1980s and 1990s, either. Furthermore, there’s the matter of pacing and sharing the workload across those robots so store shipments can be made on schedule. Quite simply, how do they get the work done? Good old-fashioned inventory management is both part of the challenge and central…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.73
…4:15 p.m. Bosch Rexroth will be featuring the ACTIVE Shuttle in the AMR Demo Area at the following times: Tuesday, May 23, from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. (EST) Thursday, May 25, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Bosch Rexroth demos at Automate The company said its key booth demos and highlights will include: ctrlX AUTOMATION: This four-sided demo will illustrate the modularity and scalability of ctrlX AUTOMATION while presenting an overview of ctrlX DRIVE and ctrlX CORE hardware capabilities. On display will be a three-axis ctrlX DRIVE linked to a ctrlX CORE industrial PC running in real-time. Other components, such…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.63
…complement Geek+'s ASRS products, said Perdue. “The Geek+ Robo Shuttle, Four-Way Shuttle, and Pop Pick solutions are in fact all examples of automated storage systems,” he said. “They provide high-density storage and retrieval, while OSARO augments the picking and packing by turning the goods-to-person [G2P] picking station into a GTR picking station.” “OSARO can pick from virtually any ASRS in the same way,” he added. “This agreement with Geek+ is about automating the final step in the fulfillment process, and gives the customer a one-stop solution that de-risks the project.” Founded in 2015, Geek+ said it applies robotics and artificial…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.82
…reduces engineering effort and accelerates time-to-market by easily integrating into existing automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). These include shuttle, cubic, and 3D storage solutions, said ABB. In addition to LogiMAT, the company plans to exhibit at Booth 5623 at Automate 2023 later this month in Detroit.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.36
…management. It can control all types of conveyor technology, shuttle systems, and ASRS, said Körber. The second example is Savoye, a French automation company that offers a WCS to manage and supervise all scheduling, synchronization, and routing operations in the warehouse. Savoye’s X-PTS Pick Station offers different modes for different activities — such as picking inventory. The final example is Zebra Technologies' Fetch Robotics unit, which provides the FetchCore cloud-based WCS software that it said provides complete control of warehouse automation. The software can control a variety of robots, such as Freight1500 robots, which Zebra claimed is a workhorse that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.48
…extremely high throughput, using hundreds of onboard robots or shuttles, each of which may contain conveyors, sensors, motor controllers, onboard power such as batteries or supercapacitors, and more. These devices not only need power, they need lots of it provided consistently. And they often require wireless control communications to operate in harmony. Watching an ASRS system in action is to witness a symphony of devices receiving power and data at just the right time, hundreds if not thousands of times per hour. Still striving to prepare for the future, the systems we now see in the design and initial deployment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.75
…professionals who use the region to import goods and shuttle them throughout the country. Ohio boasts the seventh largest economy in the U.S. and a workforce of 1.2 million people. Roughly 151 million people are within a one-day drive of the region, and its Foreign Trade Zone ranked 12th of 200 such U.S. locations in 2021, moving $9.7 billion worth of goods that year. The Columbus area is home to Rickenbacker International Airport, one of the few airports in the world primarily focused on cargo. Fewer than 300,000 passengers fly out of the airport, primarily via Allegiant Air flights and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.60
…and retrieval systems (ASRS), whether they are crane-based or shuttle-based. For instance, I noticed that prominent signage at SSI Schaefer’s booth touted its pallet-handling solutions. It’s a robot world; we’re just living in it Like MODEX last spring, it was hard to swing a dead cat in McCormick and not hit a robot. The ProMat directory listed 88 exhibitors under the robotics category, and that seems light given that one hall seemed to be nothing but robots. What’s more, one of the biggest exhibitors by square footage was Locus Robotics booth near the entrance. Without question, robotics is having a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.29
…a combined solution that integrates the Berkshire Grey Robotic Shuttle Put Wall (BG RSPWi) with Locus Origin and Locus Vector bots. At McCormick Place, 6 River Systems' booth featured not just its AMRs, but it also showed how goods from its system can feed sortation AMRs from Tompkins Robotics or be routed to packaging automation from Accutech. At the Honewell Intelligrated booth, one demonstration featured Honeywell’s Smart, Flexible Depalletizer, which uses an articulating arm plus vision and AI, working in concert with an autonomous lift from OTTO Motors. Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Intelligrated, explained that this type of integrated…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.23
…accuracy while reducing storage footprint. Honeywell said its new system helps efficiently manage more than 20,000 SKUs using high-speed shuttles, reducing labor and increasing space. Honeywell claimed that it offers one of the broadest portfolios of advanced automation and software in the industry, including the latest warehouse robotics and hybrid solutions that combine the strength of multiple technologies. The company is demonstrating its systems at Booth S618 at ProMat in Chicago. Editor's note: For more about ProMat 2023, visit Robotics 24/7's special coverage page.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.73
…of its award-winning PopPick system, the upgraded M200C mobile robot, its new Vertical Sorting Wall, and the high-density Four-Way Shuttle storage system. It is at Booths N7507 and N7307 in McCormick Place. Editor's note: For more about ProMat, visit Robotics 24/7's special coverage page.