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The combination of high-density automated storage systems with goods-to-person picking has brought new efficiencies to distribution, especially e-commerce fulfillment. Quite simply, order selectors who can stand in one place to pick can fill more orders than those who have to walk through a facility to do their work. In Mindelheim, Germany, Grob-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, a family-owned manufacturer of…
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HAI Robotics, which makes autonomous case-handling robots, or ACRs, for logistics and industrial automation, this month announced a Series B+ funding round of nearly $15 million (U.S.) led by 5Y Capital, with participation from existing investors Source Code Capital and Walden International. According to the company, the capital will fuel its research and development, operational capabilities, and business expansion. Warehouse…
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MHS, a single-source provider of material handling automation and software solutions, announced today a partnership with HAI ROBOTICS to provide autonomous case-handling robotic systems for distribution and fulfillment facilities and courier, express and parcel distribution centers. The relationship leverages innovative HAIPICK technology from HAI ROBOTICS and systems engineering, integration and support from MHS to address labor and storage capacity challenges…
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Keeping consumers supplied with fresh baked goods has been part of convenience store chain Kwik Trip’s recipe for success. At its stores, consumers can buy many types of fresh goods, including bakery items that are labor intensive to produce and distribute without significant automation. With future growth in mind, Kwik Trip took an automated approach, including a new facility with…
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Warehouses and distribution centers have been a hotbed for new technologies over the last few years, with everything from packing stations to picking equipment to materials handling equipment feeling the impact of these innovations. Not to be left out of the conversation, the loading dock was also ripe for improvement and, as such, is getting more intelligent and safer thanks…
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From the start of the project, we declared that we wanted to build the best warehouse in the world.” So says Anders Eriksson, the supply chain director for Varner AS, one of Scandinavia’s largest retailers. Eriksson oversaw the design and implementation of a new 500,000-square-foot, omni-channel distribution center in Vänersborg, Sweden. “Of course, it’s impossible to know or measure if…
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Don’t miss our Annual Materials Handling Virtual Summit. Listen live on Thursday July 30th or stream anytime after that. As if double-digit e-commerce growth, mounting order fulfillment complications and a shrinking labor pool weren’t pressure enough, add Covid-19 to the list of challenges confronting warehouse and distribution center (DC) managers as they transform their operations. As the market recovers, and…
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Conveyco Technologies, one of the premier order fulfillment and distribution center systems integrators in North America, announces their strategic partnership with Geek+, a global provider of smart logistics solutions that utilizes advanced robotics and artificial intelligence technologies, to help support organizations across North America. “We are pleased to be partnering with Conveyco to accelerate access to AMR (autonomous mobile robot)…
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Editor’s note: The following column by Stefan Nusser, chief product officer for Fetch Robotics, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column, a series featuring ideas, opinions and insights from end-users, analysts, systems integrators and OEMs. Click here to learn about submitting a column for consideration. COVID-19 has affected businesses in wildly divergent ways. While the pandemic’s effects have brought service…
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Robotics are being applied at a rapid pace inside our warehouse, distribution center and fulfillment operations around the U.S.—and according to recent reports, there’s a good chance they’re coming to your facility. In fact, the latest forecast shows that shipments of logistics and warehousing robots will grow from 194,000 units in 2018 to 938,000 units annually by 2022. The labor…
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“You’re not buying automation, you’re buying confidence in throughput.” Yaro Tenzer, co-founder, RightHand Robotics A few Modex’s ago, I wrote a column titled “It’s All About The Software,” a theme I repeated following Promat 2015. It could be that I’m just not that imaginative a guy, or, the proverbial dog stuck on a bone. But at Modex 2020, I was…
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“You’re not buying automation, you’re buying confidence in throughput.” Yaro Tenzer, co-founder, RightHand Robotics A few Modex’s ago, I wrote a column titled It’s All About The Software, a theme I repeated following Promat 2015. It could be that I’m just not that imaginative a guy, or, the proverbial dog stuck on a bone. But at Modex 2020, I was…
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At a press conference at Modex 2020, Knapp (Booth 5406) discussed its strong business growth over the last year, gave an overview of its latest products, and showed how a partnership with Covariant is helping it create AI-enabled robots for the fulfillment environment. Knapp’s executives gave the audience an update on the OSR Shuttle Evo, of which the company has…
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RightHand Robotics (Booth 9826) is exhibiting its RightPick2 autonomous robotic piece-picking platform, which handles the picking and placing of individual items as part of a range of warehouse workflows and processes. RightPick2 combines new skills based on RightPick.AI, the AI-enabled vision and motion control software with deep learning. The system can pick and place thousands of SKUs, fulfilling orders at…
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Fetch Robotics, a leader in cloud robotics and on-demand automation, today announced the immediate availability of Workflow Builder, the company’s new drag-and-drop development toolkit that allows shippers to implement flexible automation in existing manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment facilities without the time, expense, and inflexibility of fixed automation or traditional autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Based on Blockly, the language used to…
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
