Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
…other. In long-haul transportation, they are 100 or 200 miles apart. Drivers drop their standard modular transport containers at a hub for another driver to take the next leg. Then, the original driver can pick up a different load and return it to that morning’s home base. In urban omni-channel logistics, open intra-city hubs span the city, a few miles away, allowing them to crossdock handling and packaging containers from open peri-urban hubs and fulfillment centers toward their final destination, or vice-versa, exploiting green vehicles fitted to urban settings. In the beginning, the Physical Internet lived primarily in academic research.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
…the biggest users of industrial automation, experienced a slowdown last year because of U.S. trade disputes with China and supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, many e-commerce and logistics providers have described an acceleration of demand. Increases that were predicted for five years coincided first with staffing shortages and then the need for social distancing. “A lot has changed in the past year,” acknowledged Prather. “The pandemic may have brought attention to end users on how to do this. Do you want to be the last holdout for automation?” “Where is your industry in this journey?” he asked. “Manufacturing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
…create jobs and decrease carbon emissions by closing the last-mile delivery gap. The company raised $50 million last August, and its North American customers include department store Nordstrom and other retailers across apparel, food and beverage, and home goods. Edmonton, Alberta-based AltaML said it applies its AI expertise with partners' domain knowledge to develop systems that deliver data for predictive value and enhanced productivity. The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is one of Canada’s three centers of AI excellence conducting machine learning (ML) research. The non-profit institute also provides educational offerings and business advice with the goal of building in-house…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
…2021 Ottonomy Develops Autonomous Robots for Indoor and Outdoor Deliveries Top Three Trends With the Current Iteration of Robotics NVIDIA Expands Simulation Omniverse With Blender and Adobe Integration NVIDIA Spring GTC 2021 Shows New Processors, Simulation Tools for Robotics Developers With NVIDIA’s support for ROS, the open-source community now has the tools necessary to take robotics applications to the next level. Isaac Sim is capable of generating synthetic data for training DNNs [deep neural networks] for robotics use cases. NVIDIA launched new computing platforms specifically for robotics and edge AI use cases. Key announcements include an industrial version of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.42
…and handed their online sales over to Amazon. Border’s last profitable year was 2006, and they closed in 2011. Major bookstores everywhere couldn’t cope when Amazon Kindle came into the world. Even resistant bibliophiles like myself can’t deny the convenience of accessing their books on multiple devices whenever they want. I no longer had to go into the store to feed my reading habit. I could do it from the comfort of my own home. Or my barracks in Afghanistan, which is where I got my first e-reader. Now we’re looking at the age of self-publishing. Publishing houses still have…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.42
…create jobs and decrease carbon emissions by closing the last-mile delivery gap. Attabotics has been adopted by major brands and other retailers across apparel, food and beverage, and home goods. Attabot 2022 scales up, adds robustness The Attabot 2022 is the result of intensive testing and customer feedback, noted Gravelle. “It's a completely different platform,” he said. “We came up with a disruptive idea and did an unprecedented number of pilots for an early-stage company. We did millions of cycles on prototypes and had a great deal of learnings on what would make a robust, successful platform.” Beginning customer operations…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.40
…commercial deployments of robots in agriculture, construction, logistics, and last-mile delivery, said the company. ZED-X designed for durability With its IP66-rated aluminum enclosure, GMSL2 connection, and native multi-camera synchronization, the ZED-X is built for production-scale deployments of autonomous robots in rugged conditions, said Stereolabs. The ZED SDK and ZED Hub multi-camera control platform provide advanced capabilities for 3D perception, including 360-degree depth sensing, localization, object detection, and skeleton tracking, it added. The ZED-X camera is suitable for manufacturers ready to mass produce robots for industrial and outdoor environments, Stereolabs said. Available in two form factors, the ZED-X and the ZED-X…
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…approaches when the aim is enabling next-day or two-day deliveries, including providers of technology-driven warehousing services, also known as “on-demand” warehousing. Micro-fulfillment and on-demand warehousing aren’t the same thing, but they do both address the need to meet consumer expectations for rapid online order fulfillment. Whether micro-fulfillment will gain much traction outside of grocery remains to be seen. In e-grocery, there are some unique order and service-level requirements. Online shoppers typically want same-day home or curbside delivery for groceries, and you may have 40 items in a customer order, which is higher than in most other retail segments. By contrast,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.38
…2017. Business logistics costs rose 6.2% to $1.494 trillion last year. However, the pace of spending increases surged in the fourth quarter of last year, perhaps foreshadowing more of the same for 2018. The main rising cost drivers were the “robust” economic climate coupled with growing demand, a strong job market, rising wages and the truck driver shortage that’s now estimated by the American Trucking Associations to be more than 50,000. The State of Logistics report, while noting the driver shortage is “nothing new to the industry,” states that the shortage is contributing to sharply higher pay that is eventually…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.37
…Also, self-driving trucks and lorries would mean more cost-efficient last-mile delivery, allowing for shipping costs to be reduced. But we don’t have to wait around for self-driving vehicles for robotic technology to make a positive impact in the logistics industry. Robot-driven solutions are available for warehouses today. The positive impact in the warehouse Many people still have the mindset of robotics working only for a specific product or industry. In fact, over 2,000 global brands have already transformed their logistics automation with Swisslog solutions. Our portfolio of technologies consists of a wide range of systems to help businesses with different…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
…more efficient and effective? Mozer: There are over 200,000 miles of rail track and hundreds of rail yards in North America that require regular monitoring and inspection to ensure safety. Common track defects include tie skew, tie clearance, and track impediments. Automated drones equipped with machine learning capabilities allow for the scalable implementation of inspections collecting data that is in turn used to help reduce the odds of train derailments and increases the uptime of train systems. How can more frequent drone inspections improve rail safety? Mozer: Autonomous drones can be used to inspect railway lines and other vital aspects…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
…whatsoever,” stated the analyst firm in mid-2021. “However, since last decade, about 15% of the warehouses are being mechanized, while only 5% are using sophisticated automation equipment and solutions. This brings immense market opportunities for the companies in the warehousing automation ecosystem.” M14 went on to say that it expected the market for warehouse automation to grow by a factor of 1.5 by 2025 and that it could reach $37.6 billion by 2030. The report calculated the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2021 and 2030 to be about 10%. “The adoption of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), technology that eliminates…