Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.16
June 24, 2022
At Amazon.com Inc.'s re:MARS event this week, MassRobotics announced that the second Amazon Web Services Robotics Startup Accelerator is open for applications for its second cohort. MassRobotics and AWS said they are working to help robotics startups experiment and innovate while connecting with AWS customers. “At AWS, we are dedicated to investing in the future of robotics and providing world-class services to help companies build, deploy, and manage robots,” stated Michael MacKenzie, general manager for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and robotics at Amazon Web Services. “We're thrilled to have had such a global and diverse cohort for our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.72
May 13, 2019
…priority as drone technology is further deployed and developed. Amazon has for some time been working on drone package delivery via its Amazon Prime Air division, for which it has development centers in the US, UK, Austria, France, and Israel. And George Mason University this year said it would let students have some food and drinks be delivered via drones on the ground. Still, there is a long way to go before consumer delivery via drone is a widespread reality in the United States. As the Wall Street Journal notes, it probably won’t be until 2020 or 2021 that the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.71
November 13, 2018
…strategy.” While not a CapRock customer, Pharris noted that Amazon has a small fulfillment center in Orange County, where his office is located. “I’m in Newport Beach, surrounded by 7-to-15 story office buildings, and in the midst of that, there’s this small building where Amazon stores the top 500 SKUs bought in Orange County,” Pharris said. “I’m shocked that more Fortune 500 and big box retailers aren’t doing that strategy.” The buildings don’t just take up a smaller footprint. Instead of 30+-foot ceilings, some of the buildings Pharris is working on are just 12 feet high, without conventional pallet racking.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.61
January 09, 2022
…vendors, and integrators to create and offer best-in-class products. Amazon works to develop new robots Amazon Robotics last year said it has developed “Bert,” a robotic arm for delivering containers to staffers, and “Ernie,” an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) for carrying items. They're intended to reduce the physical strain of workers bending down to move objects and speed up e-commerce order fulfillment. Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services recently launched AWS IoT RoboRunner. It is a new service for building workflow and fleet management software that will help integrate robots from various manufacturers so they can function together. RoboRunner provides…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.42
February 13, 2022
…service in retail. Online and offline retailers adopt AMRs Amazon.com Inc.'s Kiva robots have helped it speed the e-commerce order-fulfillment process from distribution centers to drop-off locations. Mobile robots also enable the company to fulfill orders with a remarkable degree of accuracy. Amazon Robotics is also working on other forms of automation. Amazon's purchase of Kiva Systems in 2012 helped create the AMR category because Kiva's robots were no longer available to other retailers and logistics providers. Other retailers, such as Walmart, Best Buy, and Shopify, have gained greater flexibility and visibility into their logistics operations with advanced software and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.38
October 07, 2022
…Innovation said it will continue to operate under the Alert Innovation brand based in the Boston area. Walmart rival Amazon.com Inc. acquired Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics) for $775 million in 2012, encouraging the growth of mobile robot providers to serve the rest of the industry. Since Alert Innovation a leading provider of automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) for the grocery industry, it remains to be seen how its acquisition will affect the micro-fulfillment market. The global market for micro-fulfillment centers could be worth about $36 billion by 2030, according to Research and Markets.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.37
November 03, 2017
…have slowed their ability to move forward. Companies including Amazon and Alphabet’s Project Wing have at times had to test their drone-delivery systems in other countries. Key dates after publication of Federal Register Notice (FRN) UAS Integration Pilot Program Resources Presidential Memo Presidential direction to establish a pilot program to enable public/private partnerships to test and evaluate the integration of civil and public UAS operations into the National Airspace System. Federal Register Notice The official public announcement of the program. Screening Information Request Step-by-step instructions on how to submit an application, including what kind of information you need to provide…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.22
July 28, 2022
Market leaders like Amazon are continuously evaluating throughput. The company’s fulfillment centers are extreme — workers are pressed to “make rate,” or meet productivity quotas, or they can lose their jobs if they don’t move fast enough. Amazon’s system tracks each operator’s productivity rate and automatically generates warnings without input from supervisors. Speed has become a critical component of success to every business, and it is imperative to shave time out of the production process to meet customers’ ballooning demand. Today, consumers use shipping speed as a major decision factor in their purchases. Such behaviors, fueled by companies like Amazon,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.20
June 30, 2021
…spaces around us, such as our homes and workplaces. Amazon Alexa is a great example of this—an on-demand AI assistant that exists in the cloud but that we can access with our voices to control the lighting in our homes, run our sprinklers, and lock our doors. This is the embodiment of our physical environment evolving due to enhancements provided by digital technologies. The natural language processing, machine learning models, speech synthesis, and all of the other complexity is performed in a digital system that sits beyond the walls of your home but is able to connect to that door…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.14
April 25, 2017
…“Working in the Automation Age,” featuring speakers from A3, Amazon, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, RAMTEC Ohio, and FANUC. In conjunction, A3 released a white paper exploring how companies like General Motors and Amazon continue to grow their workforce even as they add automation technologies. Automate 2017 also garnered increased international participation. For the first time, 13 Chinese automation companies exhibited, reflecting China’s dramatic growth in robotics implementation and development. A first-ever joint US-China Robotics Forum brought together leaders from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) and its counterpart, the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA). A3 also announced Apellix as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.09
December 06, 2018
…As reported by The Verge, Wing’s biggest drone-delivery rival Amazon has been testing “Prime Air” drone deliveries in the UK since 2016. Read: From Click to Customer Delivery in 13 minutes, Amazon’s Prime Air Drone Trial Begins However, neither Amazon nor Wing has yet conducted any large-scale tests in the US, due in part to the country’s stricter aviation rules. An attempt by Wing to deliver Starbucks in the US was wound down after a couple of months, while Amazon has been quiet since its delivery of sunscreen to a robotics conference in 2017. For drone delivery services to be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.07
February 06, 2017
…to initiate a FedEx shipment by talking to your Amazon Echo or Google Home virtual assistant device. “FedEx is considering vehicles that could drive around neighborhoods and make deliveries without human drivers”Rob Carter, FedEx’s chief information officer Carter says that FedEx has created an AI-enabled Alexa app that would eventually understand commands like “Alexa, prepare a shipment.” “You [will be able to] just talk your way through and [Alexa will] ask the right questions to make sure you’ve completed the work and then you can expect a truck to roll up to the front door of your office, pick up…
