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Raven Industries Inc. debuted its Driverless Tillage Solution and Driver Assist Harvest Solution at CNH Industrial N.V.'s Tech Day last week in Phoenix. The systems are designed to support multiple stages of the cash-crop production cycle and make autonomy more accessible to farmers across seasons. “As our customers continue to face rising costs, labor constraints, decreasing land availability, and short…
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Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts. Sure, it takes a great robot to create a materials handling solution. But, as more robots are deployed in warehouses and distribution centers, operators are coming to realize that the software is as important – maybe even more important – than the hardware to get the most value from robotics. On…
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Picking, consolidating, and packing e-commerce orders have traditionally required workers and dedicated material handling at each step. RENATUS ROBOTICS Inc. yesterday launched an autonomous warehouse system that enables a single worker to perform those fulfillment operations in one stop. “This system revolutionizes inventory management and order fulfillment in all segments of logistics including e-commerce,” said the company. RENATUS ROBOTICS, which…
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You need to take into consideration two views on lift truck maintenance. One is macro and the other is micro. At the macro level, it’s all about managing the life expectancy of your lift trucks as a fleet. Yes, the entire fleet. Even across five or 10 locations for a single company. This is a big, broad concept used at…
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Ouster Inc. a provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure industries, announced it will attend CES next month in Las Vegas. Ouster will showcase its latest technology and solutions, including its OS and Digital Flash (DF) series sensors and a new product release, along with select customer and partner applications in the Las…
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The proverbial fork in the road comes fast when an operation starts looking at all the power choices available for lift truck fleets. The options include lead-acid batteries, which remain the bulk of the market for electric trucks used indoors; newer advanced twists on lead-acid such as thin-plate pure lead (TPPL) designed for opportunity charging; and lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in…
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Collaborative robot arms are typically smaller and slower than their industrial cousins. ABB today said it has launched the SWIFTI CRB 1300 “industrial collaborative robot” to bridge the gap between cobots and industrial robots. The SWIFTI CRB 1300 is suitable for a wide variety of production and product-handling applications, ranging from machine tending and palletizing to pick-and-place operations, it said.…
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The most essential part of lift truck safety is a rigorous safety check process by operators at the start of shift, while technologies such as telematics, fleet software and sensor-based operator assist alerts offer other ways of making fleets safer. But what about the risks tied to the facility—more specifically—activity at docks? Docks can be a dangerous area for lift…
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By next September, all drone operators must meet the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's requirements for unmanned aircraft to transmit identification and location information. Hidden Level claimed that its Airspace Monitoring Service technology can track, monitor, and validate drones, regardless of whether they comply with the new FAA rules. The regulations are in response to the explosive growth of unmanned aircraft…
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Inuitive, a vision-on-chip processor company, announced yesterday the launch of its latest sensor modules: the M4.5S and the M4.3WN. Designed to easily integrate into robots and drones systems, both sensor modules are built around the NU4000 Vision-on-Chip (VoC) processor and integrate depth sensing and image processing with AI and VSLAM capabilities in order to provide robotic devices with human-like visual…
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The Hawesko Group claimed that it is Germany's largest trading house for high-quality wines and champagnes. It needed to respond to significant e-commerce growth and customer expectations for a seamless digital and physical shopping experience. The company and its Internationale Wein-Logistik GmbH, or IWL, logistics subsidiary are investing in the optimization of their intralogistics processes. In the next eight months,…
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The supply chain for electronics and electrical components is under more strain and demand than ever before, but robotics and automation can give manufacturers the boost they need. The use of robots in electronics manufacturing can result in reduced waste, greater efficiency, and a safer working environment. Annual installations of industrial automation for the electrical and electronics industry have grown…
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Based on its recent analysis of the North American goods-to-person robotics industry, ;Frost & Sullivan this week recognized inVia Robotics with the 2022 Technology Innovation Leadership Award for creating an autonomous picking system. inVia offers it through a robotics-as-a-service, or RaaS, model and claimed that it can boost warehouse management performance while reducing production costs. “inVia Robotics offers automation solutions…
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Baseball players are always looking for ways to improve their batting performance. A lot of their gains come from practices between games. Toronto-based Trajekt Sports has developed a robotic pitching system designed to make those training sessions even more valuable. Using trajectory data collected from major league pitchers, machine learning, high-precision motors, image processing, and ball-tracking technology, the team at…
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Near Earth Autonomy Inc. this week said that the Pittsburgh Technology Council, or PTC, has chosen it as the 2022 artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics innovator of the year. “We are grateful for the Tech Council’s recognition of our work in building the future of autonomous flight,” stated Sanjiv Singh, co-founder and CEO. “My sincere gratitude goes to our…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
