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Integrated Supply Network Inc., or ISN, is a leading independent wholesaler and private-brand owner of tools, equipment, and supplies in the automotive industry. The company has been expanding its distribution centers, dealing with staffing challenges, and responding to an increase in small package shipments from 50% of its volume to 80% during the COVID-19 pandemic. With 35 years of experience…
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OTTO Motors and Siemens Canada yesterday announced that they have partnered for Industry 4.0 technologies, including controls for collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and physical asset tracking using Siemens' Real Time Tracking Location Systems (RTLS). “Siemens’ global presence and breadth of product portfolio has been clear to us for as long as we’ve been in business,” said Ryan Gariepy, chief…
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Sensor maker Ouster Inc. yesterday said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sense Photonics, which has developed a digital solid-state lidar for automotive production. Upon closing the strategic all-stock acquisition, Ouster plans to establish Ouster Automotive, a new division focused on driving mass-market adoption of digital lidar in consumer and commercial vehicles. “Ouster and Sense are an ideal…
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Widespread labor shortages and the rapid growth of online retail have put enormous pressure on warehouse, logistics, and manufacturing facilities to do more with less. ROEQ yesterday announced that it has added payload capacity and lifting flexibility in two top modules for mobile robots. The Vissenbjerg, Denmark-based company said its new products will help end users achieve productivity goals and…
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Next week, the Association for Advancing Automation, or A3, will host the AMR & Logistics Conference in Memphis, Tenn. Among the sessions at the event will be a roundtable on interoperability for autonomous mobile robots. Many autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) entering warehouses and other environments are managed by vendor-provided software and connect with other enterprise systems. However, concerns about interoperability…
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Last week, FedEx Express, in collaboration with Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FCMI) Air, announced completion of its first scheduled last-mile aerial drone delivery in Ireland. The delivery marked the launch of a trial service delivering goods from FMCI based at Shannon Airport in County Clare, to Foynes Port in County Limerick, Ireland’s second-largest port operator and largest bulk port company.…
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Deploying an autonomous robot to a new environment can be a tough proposition. How can you gain confidence that the robot’s perception capabilities are robust enough so it performs safely and as planned? Trimble faced this challenge when it started building plans to deploy the Spot robot in a variety of indoor settings and construction environments. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble needed…
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Körber Supply Chain said it plans to share the latest developments to help businesses overcome supply chain complexity at Elevate Asia-Pacific (APAC) from Oct. 5 to 8, 2021. The Minneapolis-based company will also show its automation portfolio and integration services for supply chain and manufacturing operations at the first-ever global Automate! conference on Oct. 6. As supply chains grow more…
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Mobile Industrial Robots ApS today announced a partnership with CSi palletising, a Netherlands-based integrator that provides full end-of-line palletizing systems to some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies. The first offering from this collaboration includes CSi palletising’s high-level infeed layer palletizer integrated with the new MiR1350 autonomous mobile robots to help fully…
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Taking time to stay informed on motive power is generally a good thing in terms of managers’ time, but when lift truck operators are regularly in a state of worry about running out of power, that is another matter, says Steven LaFevers, explaining his thinking on determining if a motive power switch is in order. LaFevers is vice president of…
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About six years ago, the CEO of Toyota Research Institute published a seminal paper about whether a Cambrian explosion was coming for robotics. The term “Cambrian explosion” refers to an important event approximately half a billion years ago in which there was a rapid expansion of different forms of life on earth. There are parallels with the field of robotics…
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American mobile robot providers are on the move. Locus Robotics Corp. today announced the opening of its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The Wilmington, Mass.-based company said its new facility will support existing EU and U.K. customers and develop new opportunities within the fast-growing European warehouse fulfillment and distribution markets. “Our decision to expand our presence in the European market was…
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The drive for industries to automate is chaning how people and machines work together. The number of robots installed in factories more than doubled in 10 years, reaching about 3 million units worldwide in 2020, according to the International Federation of Robotics. The IFR last week said it has researched how robotics training can shape workforce education and enhance skills…
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Kodiak Robotics Inc. last week announced its fourth-generation autonomous truck. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said the self-driving vehicles will include modular sensor suites and will be more robust. Kodiak plans to begin putting more trucks on roads in the fourth quarter of 2021. “Complex and bulky systems that require an engineer to hand-build and hand-tune are expensive, unreliable, and…
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As e-commerce volume has exploded, businesses are looking for the best automation to help them fulfill orders and meet customer demand. They need reliable technology to process digital orders with speed and accuracy, as well as to coordinate the growing number of robots in dynamic warehouses and distribution centers. Although many retail purchases have moved back to brick-and-mortar stores as…
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