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…have been minimal over the last decade. “The annual economic impact of food waste is estimated at $218 billion in the United States, $143 billion in Europe and $27 billion in Canada,” says UN supply chain analyst Valérie Masson-Delmotte. “Such an amount is unacceptable, especially given the world’s growing population, the saturation of land resources used for agriculture, and the…
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…option for on-demand and same-day delivery, the ability to avoid roadway delays, increase medical delivery efficiency, lower costs and improve the patient experience with potentially life-saving benefits. Chris Cassidy, UPS President of Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Strategy stated; “UPS Healthcare & Life Sciences is excited to expand on our current lab specimen logistics portfolio to drive a step change…
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…heavier freight, regional distribution and last-mile delivery applications. The company said that SlipLift brings Slip’s hallmark speed, safety and simplicity to a broader set of dock operations without requiring changes to facilities, trailers or IT infrastructure. SlipLift pairs with SlipBot autonomous technology Slip Robotics said that SlipLift is a core architectural shift that decouples the robot from the payload. This…
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…a potential solution to the last-mile challenges of delivery and transportation. But for an AV or robot to deliver a pizza, package or person to their destination, they have to be able to navigate tight spaces and unknown driver intentions. The team developed a method to model different levels of driver cooperativeness — how likely a driver was to pull…
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…box facilities,” Pharris told me last week. Those are facilities under 200,000 square feet, with many as small as 50,000 square feet. As an example, CapRock is currently building out 1 million square feet of traditional space in Southern California, but another of 900,000 square feet of small box facilities. The driver, as you probably guessed, is e-commerce, or as…
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…drones, urban air mobility (UAM), delivery robots, autonomous defense systems, and more. From the Amazon Astro consumer device and the Perseverance rover on Mars to wireless factories, robots “promise to make our lives easier, but many challenges remain,” noted Dev Singh, senior director of business development and head of autonomous robotics, drones, and intelligent machines at Qualcomm. “We've made a…
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…compartments for social distancing and last-mile mobility,” Hyundai said. Hyundai cited examples including Personal Mobility or private autonomous vehicles, Logistics Mobility or delivery robots, and Service Mobility for moving items such as luggage. An “L7” platform using four large PnD modules could be useful for for transportation and logistics in restricted spaces, the company said. MobED designed for robust micromobility…
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…sitting up to thousands of miles away to remotely operate unmanned tuggers, pallet jacks, and other equipment. The companies said their joint offering can improve worker safety, supply chain resilience, and enterprise agility. “Remote operation unlocks amazing operational efficiencies for our customers,” said Brian Markison, senior director of automated guided vehicle (AGV) sales at Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas (Marengo). “Our partnership…
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…increasing pressures on cost and delivery times from rapidly changing consumer demands. For employees, these changes demand increased productivity rates and hours. Additionally, many in the warehouse workforce still spend most of their time walking from one item to the next. The result is unhappy employees with turnover rates harmful to businesses. According to the company. robotics in the warehouse…
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…use cases for its autonomous delivery technology, and utilized xBridge to test out aviation as a potential market. That company is called Ottonomy. Ottonomy finds applications for autonomous delivery robots Before starting Ottonomy, CEO Ritukar Vijay worked for a company called Aptiv in Germany, leading the development of BMW’s urban autonomous cars. He realized creating a viable business model would…
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…vehicles for ride sharing and deliveries. “Advancements in autonomy will improve the safety and accessibility of our roads, while also solving real business challenges,” said Brett Browning, chief technology officer and executive vice president of product development at Argo AI, in a statement this week. “By creating this full suite of products and services, Argo offers businesses across a broad…
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Ouster Inc. last week said it has signed a strategic customer agreement with Perrone Robotics Inc. to provide hundreds of lidar sensors for fully autonomous vehicles through 2023. San Francisco-based Ouster also introduced the L2X, which it described as the “most powerful lidar system on a chip” it has created. “Ouster’s sensors have been designed to meet a range of…
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…robots for indoor use, and delivery drones and robots. Legacy, brick-and-mortar retailers faced shutdowns, staffing shortages, and tightened profit margins during the pandemic, causing many to delay projects and investment in new technologies, said STIQ, which does business as Styleintelligence. At the same time, larger e-commerce players such as Ocado Group PLC and Amazon.com Inc., which had acquired Whole Foods…
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…Xpress network assets such as last-mile driver capacity, parking, and maintenance services,” Rodrigues said. Founded in 2016, Embark Trucks claimed that it is the longest-running self-driving truck program in the U.S. The wholly owned subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Embark Technology Inc. is building software for autonomous trucks. It said it is focused on improving the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the…
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…deployment for parcel sortation in last mile, regional hubs, and fulfillment and distribution centers. The tSortPost has an adjustable post that allows for sortation into containers at a variety of heights while running on the floor of the facility. This means users can deploy a new sortation system in a facility with almost no infrastructure, relying only on fiducial markers,…
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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