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GreyOrange Inc. has continued its expansion in Latin America, offering robots for fulfillment and inventory optimization software. The Roswell, Ga.-based company today announced an agreement with Dafiti, a leading fashion e-commerce platform in the region, to enhance warehouse productivity for Dafiti’s operations in Chile with its GreyMatter software. “We chose GreyOrange to support our fulfillment operations because we want to…
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Warehouses and distribution centers will soon be in the rush of the holiday season, working long hours to fulfill orders. While e-commerce sales aren’t at the all-time highs they were at last year and throughout 2020, the market still demands strong, flexible, and resilient operations to meet peak demand. Robots can help answer the call in response to labor shortages…
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OSARO, a global provider of AI-driven robotics for e-commerce, has launched a partner program that aims to streamline the deployment of robotic solutions for e-commerce and logistics businesses. The OSARO Partners Alliance program provides a range of collaboration and comarketing opportunities for vendors, integrators, distributors, resellers, third-party logistics companies (3PLs), and consultants, to deliver unified solutions, the company stated. The…
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In April, MHS Global, a materials handling automation provider and systems integrator, and Fortna Inc., a warehouse distribution software provider, announced their intention to merge. The combined entity today said it will be known henceforth as FORTNA. The former MHS and Fortna said they combine decades of experience in the design, development, and delivery of omnichannel and parcel distribution solutions.…
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OSARO today has launched a partner program that aims to streamline the deployment of robotic solutions for e-commerce and logistics businesses. The OSARO Partners Alliance program provides a range of collaboration and co-marketing opportunities for vendors, integrators, distributors, resellers, third-party logistics companies (3PLs), and consultants, to deliver unified solutions, according to the San Francisco-based company. The program is designed to…
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Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, is excited to announce Bastian Solutions SmartPick™, the result of decade-long research and development. This latest advancement in robotic order fulfillment provides a comprehensive solution that meets operational demands; offering customers faster, more accurate orders while answering companies’ requests for a more reliable solution that can grow alongside their operations. Bastian Solutions SmartPick™…
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In late August, Gap Inc. opened its newest Customer Experience Center in Longview, Texas. The 850,000-sq.-ft. distribution center is dedicated to e-fulfillment for Old Navy in the Southwest and is part of Gap’s continued focus on enhancing the quality of its customer service. Earlier this summer, the San Francisco-based retailer expanded operations at its facility in Fishkill, N.Y. It added…
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In the early 2000s, e-commerce continued to grow into just about every type of vertical and market, shining a light on the value of speed, accuracy, and order customization. Excelling at those factors drives success. In the past decade, order fulfillment lead times have become increasingly aggressive, with suppliers promising as quick as one-hour delivery or in-store pickup of goods.…
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…retention. The 'great resignation' and micro-fulfillment Not only is there a shortage of drivers in the trucking industry, but there's also a shortage of logistics workers. Again, automation can perform certain tasks to augment existing staffs, noted Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. In a Northeastern news article, she cited three examples. Micro-fulfillment centers,…
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The next packaging solution that comes into your DC may look less like a traditional automated pack out line and more like a robotic work cell in manufacturing. Not that packaging with robots is an entirely new frontier—they are often used to package goods coming off manufacturing lines. The difference today is that robots are edging further into e-commerce pack-out,…
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OSARO will team up with automation integrator Elm Electrical to demonstrate how cobots can piece-pick close at hand to humans during PACK EXPO International Oct. 23-26 in Chicago. The CRX-10iA/L FANUC cobot will be handing out mints and business cards to visitors in a bin-picking exercise as part of the demo at the trade show hosted by the Packaging Machinery…
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At ROSCon 2022, NVIDIA announced the newest Isaac ROS software release, Developer Preview (DP) 2. This release includes new cloud– and edge-to-robot task management and monitoring software for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets as well as additional features for ROS 2 developers. NVIDIA Isaac ROS consists of individual packages (GEMs) and complete pipelines (NITROS) for hardware-accelerated performance. In addition to…
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Picking robots are keeping pace with growing supply chain demand. Plus One Robotics Inc. yesterday announced that its robotic parcel-handling platform has performed more than 1 million picks per day in production and reached over half a billion parcel picks globally. “Our north star will always be to increase our customers’ total picks per day,” stated Erik Nieves, founder and…
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The market for autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, and automatic guided vehicles, or AGVs, is expected to reach $13.2 billion by 2026, according to Research and Markets. Fulfillment operations are adding more elevated work platforms and mezzanines to increase capacity. When AGVs and AMRs are to be used on upper levels, the right flooring is critical to ensure they function…
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It’s no secret that the pandemic caused and accelerated significant challenges and changes across global supply chains. Simultaneously, consumers embraced e-commerce with a vigor that surprised even its most optimistic proponents. Next-day delivery, made omnipresent by leaders such as Amazon, grew to include same-day delivery in many markets. Consumers also showed an eagerness to capitalize on the convenience e-commerce offers…
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Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
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