Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.69
…master the “four O’s” of robot operations: observability, operation, orchestration and optimization. The company claimed that its multi-cloud platform provides secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), incident response, and root-cause analysis. InOrbit's platform for robot operations or RobOps helped solve Kärcher’s monitoring and automation needs, explained Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO of InOrbit. The company added that it worked with Kärcher's services team to define the business models it needed to succeed with automation. InOrbit said its fully managed service handled interventions in real time, allowing Kärcher's robots to take advantage of full autonomy. “The adoption…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.63
…said the company. The proprietary software “provides integration and orchestration features allowing teams to achieve more while collaborating with their robot partners,” it said. Managers can also update operating software and supervise maintenance from any desktop, said Piaggio. The software is designed to be highly visual and intuitive and includes reporting functionality, it added. A purpose-built user app allows individual workers to be authenticated and provides usage insight on robots across the fleet. The PFF pro tools app is designed to let managers access robot fleets from a variety of platforms. Source: Piaggio Fast Forward Piaggio Fast Forward to debut…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.16
…being gathered, to load-balance our operation.” GreyOrange offers multi-agent orchestration While many warehouse are just starting to adopt mobile robots, as more companies use AMRs, interoperability is increasing in importance. Businesses will need systems from multiple vendors to work well together, from large AMRs moving pallets to picking and fulfillment systems, as well as GTP robots. This trend toward heterogenous environments is giving rise to software that can manage mobile robot fleets from a mix of vendors. “At the core of our software is the ability to work with different resources or ‘agents’ that are available, and that includes people,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.55
…company Piviotree Inc. and will pair its robotic fulfillment orchestration platform, GreyMatter, with Pivotree’s warehouse management system, or WMS. GreyMatter is robot agnostic, according to Roswell, Ga.-based GreyOrange, and uses real-time data and machine learning to orchestrate fulfillment operations for the efficient movement of automated systems. Toronto-based Pivotree said its WMS supports multiple brands and warehouses with complex and varied business processes on a single, shared software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. With over 250 major retailers and branded manufacturers as customers, Pivotree said its portfolio of digital products helps business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) companies manage digital and strategic operations and complex…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.12
…Robots (CRN) and software such as its GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform can meet growing and shifting market demand. Labor and automation While e-commerce demand accelerated earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, has it subsided now, or is it still a strong driver for adopting automation? Kohli: It's still a driver. Automation helps hedge against labor shortages, growing demands on the warehouse, and the need for greater safety within the warehouse. For us, the demand has much more to do with labor availability than the effects of COVID. Unemployment rates are back at pre-pandemic levels. The industry is short 1.4 million people.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.12
Industry 4.0 requires the safe orchestration of both robot fleets and human workers. In August, SIXAI announced plans for worldwide deployment of MAESTRO, mobile robot management software using artificial intelligence from its 634AI subsidiary. “I've been doing a lot of work bringing technology to users in consumer and medical products and now robotics,” said Ran Poliakine, founder and CEO of SIXAI and a serial entrepreneur. “The common theme for me was to use technology for what people need,” he told Robotics 24/7. “There's a big gap between what technology can do and how it's consumed by different industries.” Applying AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.54
…it enables, they’ll find new applications.” “Users don’t want interoperability,” InOrbit’s Pestoni said. “It’s just a stepping stone to orchestration of their facilities and greater efficiency.” Editor's note: Open Robotics responded to the discussion about OpenRMF, and its comments have been added to this article.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.33
…BlueYonder, and built-in barcode scanners for payload verification Advanced orchestration with dynamic mission planning and swapping that allows Pivotal to immediately reroute and re-task robots as needed to deliver the right payload to the right location at the right time Vecna Robotics to exhibit at Pack Expo Vecna Robotics offers more information about how Vecna AFL can help warehouse operators maximize throughput at www.vecnarobotics.com/AFL. The company will be exhibiting at Pack Expo in Chicago next week at Booth N-6366 in McCormick Place's North Building. With systems engineered for seamless work between autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and labor, equipment, and facilities,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.48
…to combine Technica's iTLS technology with GreyOrange's GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform. The companies claimed that the combination of Technica's innovative truck loading and unloading system and the GreyMatter robot-agnostic platform will improve dock efficiency and speed. They added that their integrated offering can improve efficiency and safety, as well as enable scarce workers to focus on higher-value tasks. “Due to increasing needs for delivering goods from warehouses to retailers, introducing this new technology with the robot is vital for increasing efficiency, higher profit margins, and lowering carbon footprint by decreasing truck traffic,” stated Tony Haddad, founder and chairman of Technica.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.44
…for “deploying edge computing applications and global management and orchestration services for AMRs in an environment.” The four-year-old company argued that Harmony 1.0 exemplifies the power of edge computing because it offloads computation-intensive tasks from the robot to the edge at low latency. “Our Harmony product is critical for scalable growth and increased ROI for the logistics centers of the future, as it provides holistic optimization from a fully integrated solution while eliminating paperwork and human errors, said Walter Buga, Arendai CEO, in a statement. “Intel EI for AMR and Smart Edge enables Harmony to accelerate deployment of customer applications,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.32
…to say InOrbit supports the 'three Cs' of robot orchestration: coexistence, coordination, and collaboration,” noted Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO of InOrbit. “When robot developers participate in InOrbit Connect through one of our interoperability options, they can focus on delivering their unique value. End users can then pick the best robots for their operations.” Source: InOrbit Developer Edition builds on existing offerings InOrbit said its platform enables efficient autonomous mobile robot (AMR) operations. It provides observability through secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis. The newly launched InOrbit Developer Edition builds on the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.28
…had acquired. The company started by adding intelligent labor orchestration to improve the productivity of its warehouse workers. However, once ShipHero saw the efficiencies it was able to obtain with the software alone, it said it quickly decided to add task-automation services with inVia Picker autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). “Over the last two years, we’ve seen demand for 3PL services grow dramatically, which has led to a greater need for technology that can help keep products moving quickly through the order process,” said Lior Elazary, co-founder and CEO of inVia Robotics. “The native integration between our WES and ShipHero’s WMS…