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…transforming standard forklifts into driverless robots, today announced that it will be attending ProMat 2023. Robotics experts will be at the company's exhibit in Booth N8710 to discuss its full line of autonomous systems. BALYO said it will reveal the simple path to automation for high-bay storage. “Smart companies are scaling up, not out,” said Mark Stevenson, chief sales officer…
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Clevon and ZF Group are joining forces to accelerate the deployment of efficient and integrated next-generation last-mile delivery services using driverless carriers in urban and on-yard environments. Clevon and ZF teams will work together to carry out a full-scale integration of the SCALAR SaaS platform and CLEVON 1 vehicles over the upcoming months and deploy it to manage CLEVON 1…
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…the door for autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, to take on more tasks in manufacturing and supply chain operations. The changes don't stop there, however. Today, adopters of AMRs have begun to shift into high gear, transitioning from pilot projects involving small numbers of robots to “fleet-size” implementations. For example, Zebra Technologies' roller-top AMRs are making inroads into factories, warehouses,…
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…more than 1,150 systems in operation worldwide, is now available as a pay-per-pick service. The new offering will enable a lower entry price point to help retailers meet the growing need for more efficient warehouse operations and faster customer delivery, the Nedre Vats, Norway-based company said. AutoStore, founded in 1996, said it is a technology company that develops automated storage…
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…Inc. today announced that BMW Group has named it an official supplier. The company said the designation means that BMW can use its RapidPlan motion-planning and control software to improve the speed and efficiency of industrial robot programming and deployment. “Manual motion planning in multi-robot systems is prohibitively expensive for all but the largest lot sizes and longest-lived products,” stated…
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…from autonomous trucks and mobile robots to automated storage and software. With post-COVID-19 e-commerce shifts, ongoing labor shortages, and recessionary fears as a given, most of the speakers, exhibitors, and attendees at this year's Manifest were still bullish on automation. They acknowledged the challenges of identifying the best robots for a particular job, as well as the growing needs for…
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…today announced Brightpick Autopicker, a robot combining a mobile base and a picking arm for e-commerce and grocery order fulfillment. The Erlanger, Ky.-based company claimed that its system is the only commercially available robot capable of both picking and consolidating orders in warehouse aisles. Like humans with carts, the autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can move around a facility, retrieve storage…
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…technologies like shuttles; autonomous mobile robots for robots-to-goods picking; and now technologies for autonomous lift trucks and robotic trailer unloading. Then you have piece-picking robots, which hold the promise of automating the most labor-intensive processes in any facility—those that involve a person picking items to and from a tote. Take an inside look into the systems in place in the…
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…For more businesses to adopt robots, people need to be comfortable working with them. To that end, InOrbit Inc. today announced the grand opening of the InOrbit Robot Space in Mountain View, Calif. The community space, product showroom, and concept store is intended to show visitors the latest autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in action and InOrbit's cloud-based robot operations (RobOps)…
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…program. To help improve its operations, New Balance’s Manufacturing Innovation Team recently started building out a dedicated group focused on robotics and automation. “There have been robotics projects that have existed in other iterations within New Balance, but this initiative is completely new,” Sarah Mendelowitz, a senior manufacturing innovation engineer at New Balance, said Thursday afternoon at MassRobotics' headquarters. She…
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…role technology plays in their operations. While Ally was just having initial discussions about bringing in automation at the time, the pandemic accelerated the company’s timeline, Davis said. It needed to start offering temperature screening, masks, and other tools to help ensure that people stayed far enough apart. Security robots answer the call The team decided to enlist Cobalt Robotics,…
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…part of Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced today that it has become the first company to achieve commercial application of Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot developed for carton unloading of trucks. The successful deployment of the robot at a DHL Supply Chain site comes just one year after DHL Supply Chain announced its $15 million investment in robotics solutions from Boston…
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…between software providers and mobile robots suppliers. Boomi yesterday announced that Geekplus Co. has selected the Boomi AtomSphere Platform to automate its smart logistics platform. “We are aiming to co-create a new logistics standard by utilizing next-generation robotics technology to solve the increasingly serious labor shortage in Japan and the gap between the growth of e-commerce demand and the growth…
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…2022 that it had acquired Robots.com and the RobotWorx name. “This acquisition comes at a critical time, as the market for robotics is experiencing 25% and higher growth per year in certain industries,” stated Tony Wisniewski, CEO of T.I.E., at the time. “Our company is uniquely positioned to take advantage of that growth with a proven, repeatable solution to help…
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DHL has opened a robot picking system at its facility in Staufenberg, Germany to help satisfy the demands of its customers. The company enlisted the help of systems integrator Element Logic to install an AutoStore automated storage retrieval system, or ASRS, that now covers 6,000 square meters at the facility. The system is made up of 160 robots, which are…
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