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…U.S. Germany, and the United Arab Emirates. Addverb counted among its more than 100 current customers Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, DHL, Amazon, Colgate Palmolive, Reliance, Unilever, Flipkart, Johnson & Johnson, and PAR Pharmaceutical.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
…Veo Robotics has raised $66 million to date. The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Safar Partners, and Yamaha Motor Ventures Inc. participated in Veo Robotics' latest round. They expressed confidence in the company's approach to advancing automation. “As investors, we were drawn to Veo Robotics' focus on safety in the workplace,” said Matt Peterson, director at Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund. “Their technology is both collaborative and effective, prioritizing employee wellbeing. We are excited to support Veo Robotics and their vision to design innovative and human-centric robotics.” As a local investor with ties to MIT, Safar Partners was already familiar with Veo…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.49
…expert human supervision,” he added. Groundlight emerges from stealth Amazon AI veteran Dirac and Microsoft Hardware alumnus Avi Geiger co-founded Groundlight in 2019. The company emerged from stealth with $10 million in new funding led by Madrona, with participation from Greycroft Partners, Founders Co-op, Flying Fish, AscendVC, and EssenceVC. Groundlight asserted that its “platform empowers any developer, even those without data science experience, to quickly build robust vision solutions.” Previously, developers would have to gather and label a dataset, train a model, and then figure out a machine learning operations (MLOps) system to maintain it. This process could easily take…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.28
…technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. One initiative is Amazon.com Inc.'s Mechatronics and Robotics Apprenticeship program, which offers paid training to prepare its employees for electromechanical technician roles. Despite fears that robots and artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs, U.S. unemployment has remained low over the past several years as automation has increased, and researchers have found that it could increase employment opportunities. While 85 million jobs could be replaced, new technologies could create 97 million jobs, according to The World Economic Forum. But first, people need education, which is the focus of National Robotics Week. Not only does the Mechatronics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.84
…Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. In the case of Amazon and Kohl's, it's not on the sales side but the returns side. Why would Kohl's allow Amazon users to return items to its stores? Returns helped its foot traffic for buying. How have this evolution and micro-fulfillment affected warehouse processes? Kohli: Robotics and automation can make half their problems go away. As human beings, we think of different brands, but the challenges for warehouse managers are how to manage resources and getting personnel trained on picking and packing. The analogy here is that robots are like the cloud era. You…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.98
…that, despite the doldrums in commercial real estate and Amazon taking a pause from building out its network, the market for warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing space remains strong. All those buildings are going to need lift trucks, racking, conveyors, sortation systems, and robots. ProMat 2023 reports record growth That brings us to ProMat 2023. Like last year’s MODEX in Atlanta and lift truck sales, this year’s show set records for attendance, exhibitors and exhibition space. MHI reported an overall registration count of 50,924 attendees from 178 countries – a 12% increase over ProMat 2019. It also said it had 1,051…
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…America. Attendees included leading global companies including Ahold Delhaize, Amazon, Cargill, Carrier, Fuji, Garmin, General Mills, HomeGoods, Johnson & Johnson, the Mayo Clinic, and Starbucks. In addition, Aaron Prather, director of the Robotics & Autonomous Systems Program at ASTM International, delivered the keynote address on optimizing warehouse operations with robots and AI. He was previously former senior advisor for technology research and planning at FedEx. This year’s event will highlight new developments in these applications and more. Robotics vendors are welcome to provide speakers as long as they also bring users. How to speak at the 2023 Robotics Applications Conference…
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…her time as the former COO and president of Amazon Robotics. “I am very excited to join the team,” said Villeneuve. “RGo’s technology creates disruptive change in the industry. It reduces cost and adds capabilities to mobile robots in logistics and enables completely new applications in emerging markets including last-mile delivery and service robotics.” LogiMAT 2023 & Robotics Summit & Expo RGo will exhibit its technology at LogiMAT 2023, Europe's biggest annual intralogistics tradeshow, from April 25-27, in Stuttgart, Germany at Booth 6F59. The company will also sponsor and host the panel session “Unlocking New Applications for Mobile Robots” at…
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…all about the application, product, and market. Does the “Amazon effect” still apply? Amazon helped create the mobile robot category with its purchase of Kiva Systems in 2012, and its picking challenges advanced the state of the art for that task. Nieves: In addition to supporting their own operations, Amazon's advances serve to describe to the broader industry the art of the possible. For example, with its Cardinal project, Amazon showed loading and unloading of roller carts, which are like pallets with three walls. We're seeing a lot of interest in truck unloading at this ProMat, with four or five…
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…variants. Stretar: Even if you're not competing directly with Amazon, we see pressure for speed to market and differentiation. We continue to see interest in some sectors, such as groceries. We have a couple of big retailers that are looking at G2P and AutoStore because trying to find land for new facilities is a long process. One electronics provider in the Columbus, Ohio, area wiped out 60% to 70% of a building for an automated storage and retrieval [ASRS] system, with a ton of success. Another client in Upstate New York, a sporting goods retailer, is looking at Brightpick. ROI…
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…D’Andrea also co-founded Kiva Systems, which was acquired by Amazon in 2012 and rebranded as Amazon Robotics. Founded in 2014, Verity said its drone inventory systems are trustoworthy in “environments where failure is not an option.” Warehouse operators can use the technology to gather valuable insights that enable greater operational efficiencies, said the Zurich-based company. Verity already serves warehouses Supply chain automation has become a top priority for third-party logistics providers (3PLs), retailers, and manufacturers to address business-critical logistics challenges, noted Verity. Inventory management is a prime use case for automation—manual inventory scanning is costly and laborious, and errors frequently…
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…on Omniverse. Public examples of Isaac Sim users include: Amazon Robotics uses NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and Isaac Sim to simulate warehouse design, train robots with synthetic data generation (via Isaac Replicator), and gain operational efficiencies before physically implementing them in warehouses. This helps the e-commerce giant fulfill thousands of orders in a cost- and time-efficient manner [see video below]. Telexistence has deployed beverage restocking robots across 300 convenience stores in Japan. Deutsche Bahn is training AI models to handle very important but unexpected corner cases that happen rarely in the real world — like luggage falling on a train track,…