Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.99
…the AMRs,” said Mike Larson, chief operating officer and co-owner of Waytek. “They are able to multi-task while saving us floor space.” Waytek’s AMR fleet was fully installed and operational in three days. It consists of three Fetch CartConnect100 AMRs. The robots can position themselves under rolling mobile carts with shelves called FetchCarts to transport totes or materials. The system currently includes 32 carts. Waytek uses a handful of them to automate the transport of dunnage and recycling, though most are used to transport order totes to the put wall or to automatically move goods from receiving to drop off…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
…organizations integrate mobile robot fleets with additional systems to gain efficiencies. Most assistive-pick robots need to communicate with a WMS to obtain order data. Meanwhile other sites implement AMRs with automated conveyors, pack-out lines, or voice systems, especially for picking cases to larger AMRs. According to Fitzgerald, 6 River Systems’ partner program supports integration with systems such as automatic box builders, autobaggers, and vertical lift modules. In some cases, AMR solutions might integrate with a manufacturing execution system (MES) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The need to simplify integration of multiple robots with WMSes has given rise to new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.48
…help give girls in high school the opportunity to gain hands-on technical skills and learn about the robotics industry. This is the third time MassRobotics is putting on the program. Jumpstart focuses on many technical areas, from programming to design and simulation, to hands-on building, prototyping and testing, according to MassRobotics. A key part of the Jumpstart program is making sure these young women feel confident and empowered to enter the STEM field, it said. MassRobotics partners and other MA robotics companies will take part in program The curriculum includes participation from MassRobotics' partners and other companies in the Massachusetts…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.42
…runs the lab at Johns Hopkins,” said Dave Saunders, co-founder and chief technology officer of Galen Robotics. “Doctors asked for robots for complex, soft-tissue procedures, which gave rise to a Ph.D. project and our first prototype in 2016.” “When you look at the history of surgical robots, there are two veins of early research into stable navigation,” Saunders told Robotics 24/7. “The first is a very stable platform, where the features of the body are static for the length of the procedure, such as Lasik eye surgery,” he explained. “They could also see large bones or mount tacking devices on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.03
…conducted by the Robotics Society in Finland, independent advisors Gain & Co., and online marketplace HowToRobot.com. “The integrators in Finland are automating things that no one else is willing to do,” Latokartano said. “They are crazy enough to do it – and succeed.” Robots laser-clean fighter jets Examples of the niche applications that robotic companies in Finland are taking on include laser cleaning of body parts for the F-35 combat aircraft, arc welding of cruise ships, and robotic waste sorting using machine learning (see below). Automating such complicated tasks requires special knowledge to be a profitable investment, according to Søren…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.44
…reported that manufacturing in the U.S. added a net gain of 67,000 workers over pre-pandemic levels for the first time since the 1970s. The Times suggested that this uptick is in large measure in response to supply chain issues with China and localizing inventories with new “grey-collar” jobs managing robots. I think Erik Nieves, CEO of Plus One Robotics, said it best at the summit: “Well, it was clear that there was not going to be enough labor to manage all of the deliveries and the packaging as we continue to move our commerce online.” “But COVID acted as an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.78
…comprehensive warehouse solution in the market,” said Samay Kohli, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange. “We enable smart robotic intralogistics for every process step in the warehouse, offering supply chain leaders a fully integrated solution for significant productivity, speed and efficiency gains in a matter of weeks.” Founded in 2012, GreyOrange said its GreyMatter hardware-agnostic platform responds to customer orders in real time as well as proprietary and certified third-party hardware. The Atlanta-based company said its systems offer a competitive advantage by increasing productivity, empowering growth and scale, mitigating labor challenges, and reducing risk and time to market. GreyOrange also said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.00
…growth in the coming years,” she added. HowToRobot and Gain & Co. conducted the research for the market report, covering 131 robotics and automation suppliers operating in Norway. The companies behind the report will be present at NFEA’s Smart Produksjon 2022 industry conference on Nov. 30 in Gjøvik, Norway. SMEs pick up on robots Robot adoption will increase especially among small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), according to the report. SMEs account for the vast majority of Norway’s approximately 17,000 manufacturers. “Robot technologies are becoming more broadly available and easier to use for SMEs,” said Søren Peters, CEO of HowToRobot and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.32
…their robot fleets. “This partnership now allows enterprises to gain more valuable information in real time through a unique integration between Formant and alwaysAI,” said Marty Beard, co-founder and CEO of alwaysAI. “We are excited to be able to partner with a cutting-edge company like Formant to bring the power of computer vision to robots.” San Diego-based alwaysAI provides developers and enterprises a platform for building, training, deploying, and managing computer vision applications on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and autonomous vehicles. “We make computer vision come alive on the edge—where work and life happen,” said the company. alwaysAI and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.63
…health of their machines,” said Bill Bither, CEO and co-founder of MachineMetrics, “By connecting UR cobots to MachineMetrics, users can now gain real-time insights into cobot productivity, alert teams when issues arise, and remotely troubleshoot and diagnose issues to get the cobot back up and running.” More on MachineMetrics The Northhampton, Mass.-based company said it makes “the single platform to capture, manage, and analyze manufacturing equipment data.” Last year, it raised $20 million in its Series B funding round. “Today, hundreds of manufacturers across global factories are using MachineMetrics as the foundation of their digital factories, leveraging plug-and-play machine data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.54
…work at manufacturing jobs will not happen unless perceptions change. About the author Søren Peters is the CEO at Gain & Co and HowToRobot.com. This post was republished from Howtorobot.com with permission.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.14
…capabilities on their edge robots,” said Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, co-founder and CEO of Cogniteam. “We were pleased to see that the development of this new module integrates seamlessly with the Nimbus Operating System, enabling deployed robots to handle greater AI computational abilities.” Cogniteam has been developing artificial intelligence technologies for more than 10 years. The Petach Tikva, Israel-based company said it has worked with companies such as Amazon, Mitsubishi, and Siemens on mapping, navigation, and autonomous decision making. Cogniteam now packages its mission-management system as the cloud-based Nimbus. Cogniteam aims to ease robot development NVIDIA Corp. made its Jetson AGX…