Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.97
According to World Economic Forum, over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom, propelling a rapid move to online learning. A similar change is also happening among the professional adult learners, The pandemic is changing how engineers learn the tools of the trade, according to two leading CAD training and education providers. The shift from in-person classes to remote learning was incremental before the Coronavirus, but the shutdown and travel restrictions are accelerating it. “We started transitioning a few of our courses to online instructor-led delivery, but [the pandemic] brought it to the forefront,” said Kevin Kuker, VP of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.03
Renowned as the company behind the leading direct-to-consumer brand for premium adult incontinence supplies, NorthShore Care Supply has evolved from a catalog Internet retailer to a direct-to-consumer brand of high-absorbency adult diapers and incontinence supplies in the United States. In doing so, NorthShore’s brand has undergone significant expansion, as the company has grown by more than 30% annually during the last three years. With this extensive growth in mind, the timing was right to make proper investments, which would allow for scale down the road. One such investment was a move into a new 173,000-square-foot facility. However, just as the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.05
Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced that it has passed the quarter-billion (250,000,000) units picked volume level heading into the 2020 holiday peak season. Locus robots now pick more than ten-thousand units every 15 minutes, a 263% increase in units picked vs. the same period last year. Locus’s 250 million pick milestone reflects the rapidly growing volumes at customer sites throughout this pandemic-impacted year, with some customers’ daily orders often reaching Black Friday levels. Across the installed base, Locus is now regularly exceeding volume levels of 1 million picks per day. “Our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.94
I live in a state whose motto is “Live Free or Die.” If the third-party logistics (3PL) industry had a motto these days, it might be “Innovate or Die.” “At NFI, we have followed the guidance ‘if you’re not growing, you’re dying,’” says Sid Brown, CEO. “Throughout each generation since our founding in 1932, we have been strategic and creative in how we grew. Today, innovation is essential in how we grow and enhance the value we bring to customers.” That is especially true of the e-fulfillment side of the industry, where shippers are counting on 3PLs to compete with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.12
Non-profit food rescue organizations City Harvest and The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) have joined forces with industrial automation pioneer Berkshire Grey to bring much-needed food to thousands of families this Thanksgiving. The partnership will help feed thousands of New York and New England families through special packages of Thanksgiving foods such as potatoes, beans and stuffing that are in high demand. As part of this effort, Berkshire Grey is donating 40,000 pounds of food. In addition, Berkshire Grey’s robotic picking, packing, and sortation technology will efficiently select and rapidly package the shelf-stable food into ready-for-distribution boxes. Since its creation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.90
In early 2000, Dr. Karthik Ramani experimented with a shape-based search system that allows engineers to use visual references to identify and search for mechanical objects, but it soon became clear to him the computing power was insufficient. Twenty years later, with far more computing power at his disposal, he revived the project, applying machine learning (ML) to crawl through a database of gearboxes, bearings, brakes, clutches, motors, nuts, bolts, and washers. The outcome is an open-source annotated database of more than 58,000 3D mechanical parts. Using machine learning to sort mechanical parts Ramani, a Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.80
Penguin Computing, a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., has announced TrueHPC, an end-to-end, enterprise-supported high-performance computing solution powered by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking to deliver a workload-optimized HPC infrastructure, that scales to meet any workload and accelerates time to innovation across HPC initiatives. Penguin Computing TrueHPC delivers a complete software, hardware and management platform built on compute-optimized hardware and Scyld Clusterware orchestration software, the company explains. TrueHPC leverages technologies from AMD, NVIDIA and others to enable a complete technology ecosystem in support of each workload. TrueHPC provides cluster management tools that allow…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.23
Few would argue that robots, especially autonomous mobile robots (AMR), are moving from an emerging technology to another tool in the materials handling tool kit. That is especially true in the third-party logistics (3PL) industry, where Modern has featured AMR implementations at industry leaders like DHL, GEODIS, Rakuten Super Logistics and, in the July issue, UPS. Those articles highlighted some of the leading AMR solution providers that are now becoming household names, including Locus Robotics, inVia Robotics and 6 River Systems. While each of those providers brings different strengths and strategies to the table, what they share in common is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.80
COVID-19 is demonstrating the vital role that logistics plays in modern societies. Increasing customer demands and expectations are calling for flexible, 24-hour distribution solutions from all supply chains. However, labor market challenges and slow adoption of digital technologies are preventing companies from achieving the speed and agility they need to be competitive in this market. As a direct touchpoint in the customer experience, logistics operations need to accelerate innovation and build agility to emerge from the present crisis more resilient and future-ready—and they’re turning to automation as part of the solution. With the number of direct-to-consumer orders increasing, scaling automation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.90
Kindred today announced a partnership agreement with VARGO to incorporate its artificial intelligence (AI) pick and place robotic solutions with VARGO’s warehouse execution system (WES) to enhance both parties’ solutions for retail and e-commerce fulfillment. Kindred has been working with Hilliard, Ohio-based VARGO since 2017 and partnered on e-commerce fulfillment system design and integration for Gap Inc. Gap has deployed more than 100 Kindred SORT robotic systems in combination with VARGO’s WES. “This partnership between VARGO and Kindred further demonstrates the commitment of both of our companies to bring strategic and innovative distribution solutions to the industry that solve real…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.28
At the virtual GTC conference this week NVIDIA gave attendees a first look at the new NVIDIA RTX A6000 and NVIDIA A40 GPUs. The GPUs are built on the Ampere architecture and feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores and CUDA cores that can accelerate graphics, rendering, compute and AI significantly faster than previous generations. “The ability to double or triple the resolution and vastly accelerate our real-time visualization of massive, complex building models in cityscapes with the NVIDIA RTX A6000 is super impressive,” said Paul Renner, visualization manager at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, one of the world’s largest architecture firms.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.33
Seegrid Corp., a provider of self-driving industrial vehicles for material handling, today announced that it acquired Box Robotics, a mobile robotics startup bringing high-definition maps, three-dimensional lidar, and deep learning to the warehouse and manufacturing automation space. According to Seegrid, the acquisition will help accelerate next-generation perception and more human-like, situational awareness technology to Seegrid’s vision-guided vehicles (VGVs), making manufacturing, distribution, and e-commerce fulfillment facilities even more productive as the demand for automation increases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial terms are not being disclosed. The Philadelphia-based Box Robotics, led by the former Love Park Robotics principals Tom Panzarella and John…