Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.34
…this Thanksgiving, delivery operations are expanding. DroneUp LLC and Walmart Inc. today announced today their first multi-site commercial drone delivery operations. The three locations, which will be located at Walmart stores in Northwest Arkansas, will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days per week, to deliver items to eligible Walmart customers by air in as little as 30 minutes. “When we invested in DroneUp earlier this year, we envisioned a drone delivery operation that could be quickly executed and replicated across multiple stores,” said Tom Ward, senior vice president of last mile at Walmart U.S. “Opening our first…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.68
Walmart Inc. and Gatik announced this week that Gatik has been operating autonomous trucks without a safety driver behind the wheel in a delivery route for Walmart in Bentonville, Ark. The driverless deliveries are moving customer orders between a Walmart “dark store” and a Neighborhood Market with a fleet of multi-temperature autonomous box trucks. “Through our work with Gatik, we’ve identified that autonomous box trucks offer an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution for transporting goods on repeatable routes between our stores,” said Tom Ward, senior vice president of last mile at Walmart U.S. “We’re thrilled to be working with Gatik…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
…focus on scaling.” Fabric recently announced major partnerships with Walmart, Instacart, and FreshDirect, and it works with local last-mile delivery providers. Fabric investors and expansion plans Existing investor Temasek led Fabric's Series C round. Koch Disruptive Technologies, Union Tech Ventures, Harel Insurance & Finance, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), KSH Capital, Princeville Capital, Wharton Equity Ventures, and others also participated. Past investors include Corner Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Aleph, Playground Ventures, and Evolv (Kraft Heinz). Fabric has raised $336 million to date. “We believe the movement to local fulfillment presents…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.71
…Ontario. Its customers include Fortune 500 retailers such as Walmart and Loblaw. Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies, with over 120 years’ experience. It employs about 72,000 people and manufactures products in 55 facilities in 23 countries around the world. The company has innovation centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxemburg. Goodyear's collaboration with Gatik expands service levels and capacity for both organizations across the U.S. Goodyear pumps up Gatik smart trucks The tire maker's venture capital fund, Goodyear Ventures, participated in Gatik’s recently announced $85 million in Series B funding. The companies said they plan to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.44
Ford Motor Co., Argo AI, and Walmart Inc. yesterday said they are working together to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Walmart said it will be its first multi-city autonomous delivery collaboration in the U.S. The last-mile service will use Ford self-driving test vehicles equipped with the Argo AI Self-Driving System. “We're excited to expand our autonomous delivery efforts in three new markets alongside Argo and Ford,” stated Tom Ward, senior vice president of last-mile delivery at Walmart U.S. “This collaboration will further our mission to get products to the homes of our…
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…the logistics and transportation industry in the U.S. Ossia's customers include Toyota subsidiaries, Foxconn, building infrastructure firm Saint-Gobain, and Walmart. The company said wireless power devices based on its EU and U.K. certifications will be available through its commercial partners.
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…2020, the company has launched new electric trucks with Walmart and partnered with Isuzu to implement OEM-grade redundancies for medium-duty trucks critical for fully autonomous operations. Gatik expands operations Gatik noted that its expansion to Texas is the fourth market in which it has deployed its fleet for retail customers, following the success of its operations with Walmart in Arkansas and Louisiana and with Loblaw Cos. in Ontario, Canada. The company has opened a new facility in Fort Worth that will serve as a hub for its operations in Texas. Gatik said it will enable new and existing customers to…
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…think that there are a select few, probably including Walmart that will go down the capex path. They have all of their own software and capabilities in-house,” said an Attabotics staffer. “But, there's a lot that goes into e-grocery. Even the large companies need a turnkey solution if they want to get to market quickly with a profitable e-grocery business with the right SKU assortment, delivery time, the right mix of fresh and local produce. It's just impractical to do it all by yourself from scratch.” “There are a lot of different pieces to the software and robotics stack,” said…
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…company was founded in 2009, and its customers include Walmart, Kroger, and the Mall of America. Denver Public Schools, one of the largest school districts in the U.S., plans to use Tennant Co. floor scrubbers with BrainOS, starting with 14 buildings. Brain recently hired Jon Thomason as its new chief technology officer. He is former vice president of autonomous solutions at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), and he has also held senior roles at Amazon and Qualcomm. Robotics 24/7 spoke with Thomason about his experience, his views on autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and his plans for Brain Corp. You've been…
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Walmart Inc. and Symbotic LLC today announced that they have partnered to “reimagine” the retailer's regional distribution network. Symbotic first implemented its supply chain automation in Walmart's Brooksville, Fla., distribution center in 2017. Since then, the companies have worked together to optimize the system. Today, Symbotic will begin outfitting 25 additional regional distribution centers with its hardware and software. “There is no greater validation of our efforts to use technology to reimagine the warehouse and supply chain than our work with Walmart,” stated Rick Cohen, CEO of Symbotic. “We set out more than 15 years ago to dramatically improve America’s…
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…or so it seems. Major supermarket chains including Kroger, Walmart, and H-E-B have started micro-fulfillment center projects, tapping automation companies that offer robotic, high-density storage and picking systems, which can be placed inside a store or a so-called “dark store” that fulfills online orders for a compact geographic area. But for all the attention on the micro-fulfillment center (MFC) trend to date, it’s mainly taking hold in grocery. It does, however, overlap with the concept of hyperlocal fulfillment, which almost every retailer or e-commerce brand is trying to achieve in some form. The “hyper-local” concept overlaps with other fulfillment network…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.56
…world's best-known brands such as Decathlon, Nike, Circle K, Walmart, and ASDA. The company claimed that it has the largest share of the global autonomous mobile robot (AMR) market with operations in 30 countries. Geek+ plans to continue to strengthen its regional capabilities by teaming up with local as well as global integrators. Building upon its goods-to-person picking robot, Geek+ now offers a wide range of hardware systems. It said its product line includes the award-winning, bin-to-person RoboShuttle, as well as sorting, materials handling, and lifting robots. “We are not just an AMR provider, but [also] a long-term automation partner…