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Study from Blue Yonder and WMG takes a long look at impact of COVID-19 on retail supply chains

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…supply chain. For example, in Grocery, the frozen foods chain depends on refrigerated storage and transport trucks. When people were suddenly eating home much more, the frozen food sales took off. However, grocers couldn’t easily add more frozen storage at the DCs, nor quickly procure a bunch of refrigerated trucks, so they struggled to meet the increased demand in these…


The Evolution of E-Commerce: Shaping benefits from emerging technologies

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…e-commerce players—as well as online grocery companies—are experimenting with small autonomous delivery robots, while Amazon and others have experimented with small aerial delivery drones. Currently, says De Muynck, such use of delivery bots and drones remains experimental and would face regulatory hurdles and cost effectiveness concerns, but it’s inevitable that companies will need to continue to test such technologies to…


Locus Robotics announces technology collaboration partnership with RightHand Robotics

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…provide transformative solutions to a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, apparel, grocery, and more. With the growing demands of e-commerce order fulfillment, we can solve our customers’ needs for flexible and reliable technology, with real productivity and efficiency results.”


Annual Warehouse and Distribution Center Automation Survey: More automation, please

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…“The needs of a direct-to-consumer grocery operation are going to be very different from the needs of an apparel operation, particularly around the warehousing environment itself, the number of SKUs, and the number of lines per order. These should all be factored into the decision-making process.” About the survey participants Thirty-three percent of this year’s survey respondents are running warehouses…


RightHand Robotics unveils next-generation RightPick2

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…industries, including e-commerce, retail, pharmaceuticals, grocery, and more. Building on this experience, RightPick2 sets a new standard for speed and dependability. Being able to reliably pick a wide range of items at a high rate helps distribution and fulfillment centers improve overall customer experience, making them more competitive in the global marketplace.” RightHand Robotics has been chosen as a finalist…


Inventory Management 101: Time to step up to the plate

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…started out as a family-owned grocery business in Boston’s North End. When prohibition was repealed in 1933, the Martignetti family received the very first beverage alcohol retail license ever to be issued in Massachusetts. Today, Martignetti holds the distinction of being the largest wine and spirits wholesaler in New England. Two years ago, the company built a 700,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, LEED-certified…


Materials Handling Innovation Matters More Than Ever

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…of point of sale in grocery and retail was in October 1971 at Buick’s Plant 10. “I carried the 50-pound scanner into Buick to give them the demonstration,” Hill recalls. Hill has not rested on his laurels. Still a director at St. Onge, he recently attended a conference on automatic identification that brought together more than 400 experts to Google’s…


Tompkins Robotics, a division of Tompkins International, partners with RightHand Robotics

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…costs and improve reliability of the fulfillment process for pharmaceuticals, electronics, grocery, apparel, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots, RightPick handles hundreds of thousands of different items using a machine learning backend, coupled with an intelligent gripper that works in concert with industry-leading robotic arms.


Robotics at a tipping point revisited – Piece picking robots

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…founder. “We see opportunities in grocery, health and beauty, pharma, small electronics and apparel because of the items that are picked.” The pushback to a fully-autonomous robot has not been the ROI. “The ROI isn’t why people are first interested innovation,” Galluzzo says. “With the compound growth rate of e-comm and the labor issue, a fully-autonomous robot goes right to…


Vecna Robotics Partners With RightHand Robotics

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…order fulfillment for pharmaceuticals, electronics, grocery, apparel, and other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots, RightPick handles thousands of different items using a machine learning backend coupled with an intelligent gripper that works in concert with robotic arms. Vecna Robotics and RightHand Robotics will be showcasing each other’s technologies at MODEX in Atlanta from April 9 through 12. Vecna Robotics will…


The Market Heats Up and Businesses Scramble for Workers

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…across America. Retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, grocery, and logistics are industries notorious for high turnover and employment pressures. The talent shortage is not as new as the emphasis of lack of skilled labor. Now there is a shockingly limited supply of potential employees in the labor market. As organizations adjust to meet customer demands, the reliability of the workforce is a…


SVT Robotics’ SOFTBOT Platform Accelerates Integration of RightHand’s RightPick 3 Item-Handling System

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…industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, and pharmaceuticals. RightPick 3, the latest generation of RightHand's suite, can rapidly pick and place thousands of SKUs of varying-sized products. The company claimed that it is “the world’s first autonomous piece-picking solution designed to be integrator-friendly.” “The SOFTBOT Platform connector, which leverages our standard API [application programming interface], RightPick-MCP, further streamlines the process…


FedEx, Nuro Enter Multi-Year Agreement to Test Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

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…has established partnerships with leading grocery, restaurant, and pharmacy retailers. It claimed that its driverless vehicles can make streets safer and provide convenience. In November 2020, Nuro raised $500 million in Series C funding. More recently, Chipotle Mexican Grill invested in the company in March, and Dominos is testing Nuro for pizza delivery in Houston. Nuro said that its collaboration…


Drone Express and FarEye Partner to Launch Autonomous Drone Deliveries for U.S. Retailers

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…pilot as part of the grocery retailer's continuing efforts to transform e-commerce. The first stores in Ohio and California are expected to offer the drone delivery service in early summer. FarEye offers route optimization Last month, FarEye raised $100 million in Series E funding, which is said it plans to use to develop its platform, hire staffers, and expand in…


Geek+ Deploys 100 Mobile Robots at Circle K Distribution Center in Hong Kong

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…secure the smooth operations of the largest automated warehouse within Asia's grocery industry and to ensure the timely and accurate allocation of millions of products to Circle K's network of convenience stores.


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