Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.19
…KNAPP AG's Pick-it-Easy station for automated pocket induction of apparel. It also deployed Chuck AMRs from 6 River Systems Inc. at a multilevel distribution center in the U.K., reducing new employee training time by 80%. “We're continuing to deploy technology—especially modular technology—to handle peak,” Shelton said. “This includes goods-to-person automation, AMRs, and cobots, which work with our talent.” “One of the more exciting areas for deploying technology are pocket sorters,” Shelton added. “We can bring down the high cost of returns substantially by using vision technology and deploying machine learning so that the process of grading is increasingly thorough.” How…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.81
…products and grow the state's robotics, digital health, and apparel sectors. “I am glad that Harvard will be receiving an Innovation Institute’s Collaborative Research Matching Grant this year,” said Sumbul Siddiqui, mayor of the city of Cambridge, Mass. “The groundbreaking research done at Harvard and our other universities is what helps to give Cambridge the reputation as a hub of innovation and creativity, and I am happy to see them supported by MassTech.” In addition, the project will work with Bunker Hill Community College to help train and grow the Massachusetts workforce in these fields, said the MassTech Collaborative. Activities…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.35
…warehouse in southern China. The robotics supplier and the apparel company said it is their third collaboration to date. As an official sponsor of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Paralympics, Anta said it has experienced surging sales, putting warehouse logistics under mounting pressure. The company, which claimed to be one of the top three sportswear brands in the world, held its logistics partnership conference last week at its Jinjiang headquarters in China's Fujian Province. Anta named HAI Robotics “best strategic supplier” at the conference. “Anta sees HAI Robotics as an important long-term partner, as we have shared ambitions…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.54
…and scalable order fulfillment in industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, and pharmaceuticals, said the company. The company also offers fleet management software for human supervision, reporting dashboards, and application programming interfaces (APIs). RightHand cited integration partners including Element Logic, an AutoStore partner and a leading European intralogistics company, and Okamura, which provides products and services for offices, education, commercial facilities, and distribution centers. Last year, the company opened its RightPick Center Europe in Nurenburg, Germany, and integrated its RightPick 3 system with SVT Robotics Inc.'s SOFTBOT platform. With its collaborators, RightHand serves customers such as PALTAC Corp., Japan’s largest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.41
…driver of e-commerce growth, particularly in categories such as apparel, footwear, electronics, and luxury items. They're also considered a differentiator in the customer experience. However, the average cost of an e-commerce return, regardless of the item value, ranges from $20.75 to $45.25, when factoring in the costs of transportation, processing, and markdowns/liquidation to resell. To reduce the impact of these costs, retailers need to focus efforts on increasing the resale of previously purchased goods. All of this cuts into the retailers’ profitability. Automation including machine vision, robots, and human workers can help retailers address return headaches. Source: Berkshire Grey Automation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.06
…is a leading online retailer of sports gear and apparel. It invested in AMRs to help meet 2020 holiday peak challenges. Before the technology investment, employees picked about 35 units per hour (UPH). After adding robots from Locus Robotics, that number increased to 90 UPH on average and enabled productivity to increase by 40% during peak season. This allowed evo to use fewer staffers and enabled workers to remain socially distant before the COVID-19 vaccine was widely available. In this case, evo wanted to scale quickly without reconfiguring its warehouse, so AMRs were the best solution (see video below). In…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.57
…with Körber Supply Chain to automate operations at Ariat Apparel and Bolloré Logistics. In addition, the company is working with e-commerce delivery platform Paack Logistics Iberia S.L., which this week raised $225 million in Series D funding toward European expansion. Geek+ customizes AMRs for Decathlon in Europe Decathlon and Geek+ spent the past six months upgrading the warehouses in Castelnau, France; Łódź, Poland; and Campania, Italy. They said Geek+'s goods-to-person systems will help optimize Decathlon's business-to-consumer (B2C) logistics. The companies added that Geek+'s AMRs will enable Decathlon to increase its storage capacity, streamline processes, and better serve its expanding online…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.15
Ariat International Inc., a leading footwear and apparel brand for equestrian sports, outdoor activities, and industrial work, wanted to increase throughput and maximize capacity in its central warehouse. It chose Körber Business Area Supply Chain to implement software and robots from Geekplus Technology Co. As a result, Ariat said it can shift staffers from strenuous tasks to work requiring more skill. Founded in 1993, Ariat said it has “reimagined” the boot for modern riders, ranchers, and workers. The Union City, Calif.-based retailer takes its name from famous racehorse Secretariat, and it claimed that it is now one of the top…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.30
…have been a driver for e-commerce growth, particularly in apparel, footwear, electronics, and luxury items, said Berkshire Grey. However, the average cost of such a return, regardless of item, ranges from $20.75 to $45.25 when factoring in the costs of transportation, processing, and markdowns or liquidation to resell, the company said. “We were alerted to this when customers talked about problems for e-commerce,” said Kishore Boyalakuntla, vice president of product at Berkshire Grey. “Twenty to 30% of all things people order are returned in late December or early January.” “From a retailer standpoint, they spend a lot on advertising, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.18
…a full team there to support the logistics upgrades facilitated by robotics and AI in the retail, e-commerce, and apparel sectors.” Geek+ said its Seoul office is led by Stephen Kim and includes a full team of commercial, project, and service engineers. The company said the new office will strenghten its service capabilities in the APAC region.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
…The company said it has been running more than 300 projects globally in segments including e-commerce, third-party logistics (3PL), apparel, electronics, energy, manufacturing, and medicine. To provide localized service overseas, HAI Robotics has partnered with dozens of global logistics and supply chain leaders, including LG CNS, MHS, Mujin, BPS, Savoye, Invar, and SSI Schaefer.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
…storage scenarios in which small and midsized cases are used, said HAI Robotics. These include raw materials, small electronics, apparel, medicine, retail, and third-party logistics (3PL) operations that have large number of SKUs and demand high order-fulfillment efficiency in peak hours because of surging e-commerce demands.