Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.11
…in 2018, Rakuten is the largest e-commerce company in Japan and the third-largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide. It is a global e-business powerhouse providing “a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports.” Rakuten currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe and the Americas. Rakuten began order fulfillment and delivery services to Rakuten Ichiba merchants in August 2012, followed by the acquisition of the French 3PL Alpha Direct Services in November 2012. The next year, 2013, Rakuten acquired the Webgistix Corp., a then 12-year-old company…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.55
…Nuro just got a $940 million in financing from Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund and has partnered with Kroger to deliver the groceries and with Domino’s to deliver the pizzas. KiwiBot is providing similar services for the university campus. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest colleges to welcome the food delivery robots, KiwiBot. Drones as enablers for the future of logistics Companies such as DHL and Amazon are testing drones for last mile delivery. DHL has already tested Parcelcopter, a Microdrones md4-1000 UAV to deliver a package. Boeing has…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.22
…sales offices or production facilities in South America, Russia, Japan, and Hong Kong, to name a few. The European DC serves many of HARTING’s European customers and replenishes other warehouses. Prior to building the new facility, HARTING operated from a 30-year-old facility that was no longer able to keep pace with the company’s growth or customer requirements. “We were out of space and couldn’t get the throughput we needed,” said Meyer. “Our aging automated systems required more maintenance, and our 20-year-old warehouse management system [WMS] was no longer stable.” Just as important, the 30-year-old systems were not designed for item-handling,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.96
…and other Asian key markets such as Korea and Japan, which came relatively well through the pandemic due to stringent lockdowns from the very start of 2020, the Asia Pacific region is expected to sustain a relatively more stable economic growth than other regions and to keep express growth moving at pace over the forecast period. Europe’s Express market is set to grow faster than pre-pandemic expectations, with a predicted 2020-2024 CAGR of 5.4%. One reason is that Europe, and especially Germany, have undergone a significant push in terms of digitization through the crisis and are expected to maintain this…