Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.06
…said it has developed systems for industries including e-commerce, apparel, retail, logistics, third-party logistics (3PL), pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. It added that it has 300 global customers and has deployed more than 10,000 robots worldwide. R&D at HKSTP Geek+ said its Global R&D Center will create a variety of systems for affordable, efficient, and safe logistics processes. The company, which raised more than $200 million in Series C funding last year, said the new center will help it strengthen its role as an AMR leader and “help customers across industries transform in the intelligent era.” “We are excited to have another…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.71
…algorithms. HAI Robotics serves industries including third-party logistics (3PL), apparel, e-commerce, electronics, energy, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. HAI Robotics obtained $15 million in Series B+ funding in March. The company's HAIPICK ACR series has obtained the CE Mark, meeting European safety standards. In addition, HAI Robotics said it has been expanding rapidly outside China, establishing offices in Tokyo and Fremont, Calif., and making local partners to deliver automation faster and provide full services. With over 200 ongoing projects worldwide in various industries, the company offers its business and services across five continents. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hong Kong, BPS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.04
…5,000 employees worldwide. KNAPP said it supports healthcare, retail, apparel, food, manufacturing, and e-commerce sectors. KNAPP today also announced a $52 million partnership with supply chain operator GEODIS to introduce a highly automated order-fulfillment system that will move about 850,000 units per day for a leading specialty retailer. “The solution developed in collaboration with GEODIS and KNAPP engineers is specifically designed to address key strategic and growth factors resulting from the rapid growth in e-commerce demand,” said Jusuf Buzimkic, chief sales officer at KNAPP. “The technology platform will reduce the challenge of hard-to-find labor, while simultaneously delivering a solution that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.21
…groceries once or twice a week in comparison with apparel or home electronics, which are bought less frequently. The other big differences is that in grocery, the typical number of units per customer order ranges between 28 to 38 items, and many consumers want same-day curbside or home delivery for groceries, Roche said. Most non-grocery retail outlets don’t have the order characteristics found at big supermarkets, making MFC automation within retail shops a tougher proposition to justify, said Roche. “The sheer quantities in terms of number of lines per typical order, is vastly higher in grocery than with your typical…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.51
…distribution centers to meet increasing consumer demand at Hy-Tek’s apparel customers. “In this rapidly growing e-commerce fulfillment environment, Hy-Tek turned to Kindred and its SORT robotic system to solve challenges that our customers were facing,” said Donnie Johnson, president of Hy-Tek Integrated Systems. “Kindred offered an affordable yet flexible solution to efficiently and effectively improve their e-commerce fulfillment operations. We are very excited to be able to add this as a solution to our service offerings.” Hy-Tek integrates material handling equipment Columbus, Ohio-based Hy-Tek Integrated Systems integrates materials handling automation for clients in diverse markets, including automotive manufacturing, food, construction,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.58
…reliability to order fulfillment in industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, and pharmaceuticals. RightPick 3, the latest generation of RightHand's suite, can rapidly pick and place thousands of SKUs of varying-sized products. The company claimed that it is “the world’s first autonomous piece-picking solution designed to be integrator-friendly.” “The SOFTBOT Platform connector, which leverages our standard API [application programming interface], RightPick-MCP, further streamlines the process for rapid implementation of item-handling robots and will accelerate market adoption,” Jentoft said. The companies said the combination of RightHand's flexible autonomous system combined with the pre-built standard integrations of SVT's SOFTBOT Platform “creates a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.97
…Logistics, which is a 3PL [third-party logistics provider] for apparel and other goods in New Jersey, is using two types of robots with its picking station.” “Another customer is Cela Logistics in Israel, which works with global players like Nike,” she said. “It has already deployed its first projects and is expanding to several more.” “Caja Robotics is in pre-deployment design for two grocery chains, which have their own challenges with temperature and handling food,” added Yanovsky. “With this project, we believe we'll then have something different to offer for global customers in grocery.” The company raised $12 million in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.24
…Now, consumers have become accustomed to ordering everything from apparel and groceries to prepared meals, with the expectation of rapid and accurate fulfillment enabled by optimized systems. When a fulfillment center opens While brick-and-mortar stores have struggled, economic development authorities are always excited at the prospect of a new fulfillment center. For instance, Amazon is building another fulfillment center on 119 acres—about half the total floor space of the Pentagon— in Richmond, Va. The 650,000-sq.-ft. facility will be near the Richmond Raceway in Henrico County and will add 1,000 jobs to the company's existing workforce of more than 27,000 full-time…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.44
…customers include department store Nordstrom and other retailers across apparel, food and beverage, and home goods. Edmonton, Alberta-based AltaML said it applies its AI expertise with partners' domain knowledge to develop systems that deliver data for predictive value and enhanced productivity. The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is one of Canada’s three centers of AI excellence conducting machine learning (ML) research. The non-profit institute also provides educational offerings and business advice with the goal of building in-house AI capabilities. Attabotics responds to e-commerce shifts The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that the traditional supply chain is not sufficiently responsive to consumer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.62
…its proprietary systems serve market segments such as footwear, apparel, and grocery. AHS, Caja to optimize retailer's operations AHS will complete the installation and deployment of approximately 100 robots in the new facility. Caja's dual-robot system will support roughly 108,000 square feet. The partners said they will be able to optimize the distribution center's operations to support an outbound unit volume of more than 26,000 units per day. “When AHS was looking to expand our technology offerings, we partnered with organizations that we felt not only provided something innovative, but [also] technology that could be deployed to solve real challenges…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.82
…year, HAIPICK has been applied in third-party logistics (3PL), apparel, e-commerce, electronics, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and other industries. HAI Robotics recently partnered with Material Handling Systems (MHS) to provide its systems to distribution centers and fulfillment facilities. “We have deployed over 90 projects and gained the trust of many of our customers who continue working with us in new projects,” said Richie Chen. “HAIPICK ACR solution offers several advantages in storage capacity, delivery efficiency, flexibility, and stability, and it is a comprehensively cost-effective solution for customers.” “HAI Robotics focuses on ACR technologies and has a unique ability to innovate continuously.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.71
…five years. They serve the postal, supermarket, shoes and apparel, medicine, catering, cold storage, jewelry, education, manufacturing, and publishing industries. Libiao to power K.Move AutoSort Mobile Körber said that Libiao's autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for sortation will help it expand its offerings to cover the entire supply chain. The system, which will be branded as “K.Move AutoSort Mobile – Powered by Libiao,” will offer businesses the flexibility and scalability to not only meet today's consumer expectations, but also to adjust to seasonality or other peaks, said Körber. The tabletop robots require only a small physical area, according to the company.…