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…get there though requires an infrastructure build out. The company suggests parking garages and helipads could be repurposed to be used as “vertipods” and “vertistops.” As part of its partnerships with Dubai and Dallas-Fort Worth, Uber will also be working with two real estate holding companies to work on building the infrastructure needed for it. The Dubai Road and Transport…
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…the warehouse using minimal guidance infrastructure. While the ability of intralogistics robots to think may fall short of Sci-Fi visions, a collaborative picking robot knows it needs to stop when touched by a human, and the software guiding a robotic cart will adjust its path if an aisle is blocked. So, it’s a confluence of technologies rather than one type…
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…DHL Supply Chain's existing warehouse infrastructure. “It's especially gratifying to see the extent to which our offering is proving its worth in a wide range of warehouse environments,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “We've designed an easy-to-deploy, highly scalable solution that can improve the operating metrics for mid-size clients, as well as global powerhouses. We're excited to partner…
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…anytime soon. Similar to most infrastructure jobs, truck drivers depend on a wide range of skills to carry out their jobs every day. Just as there are different types of doctors, there are different types of truck drivers – from heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers who focus on long-haul journeys to delivery truck drivers who carry lighter loads and navigate…
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…suspension. The OTTO solution offers infrastructure-free navigation to enable flexible automation, hassle-free implementation, and scalability. About OTTO Motors OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath, provides self-driving vehicles designed exclusively for indoor material transport. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation for industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered to provide customer excellence.…
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OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath, provides self-driving vehicles designed exclusively for indoor material transport. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation for industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered to provide customer excellence.
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…more—some of which require no infrastructure to successfully navigate. As these vehicles become increasingly comfortable in dynamic, unstructured environments, these platforms have quickly migrated from manufacturing applications to warehousing supporting manufacturing to pure warehousing and distribution. “We’re seeing a tremendous amount of interest on both the user and supplier side with lots of new players jumping into this space,” says…
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…trucks that navigate without external infrastructure. Fluke announces acquisition of eMaint Enterprises Provider of electronic test tools and software acquires SaaS CMMS developer. Heico Companies acquires Ancra Systems automatic truck loading and unloading systems. Duravant acquires Arpac Engineered equipment provider expands secondary packaging equipment and integration capabilities in North America. Box On Demand partners with Sealed Air Partnership to create…
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…heavily in research and development infrastructure developments. Rapid growth in automation demands coupled with reduction of duties on refurbished goods has also fueled growth in the industrial robotics market. Similarly, North America and Europe collectively accounted for over one-third of the market share, as these regions have been continually focusing on research and development and have been using industrial robotics…
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…on building an underlying physical infrastructure in the US with investments in Jet.com, Lyft and Groupon. It has encountered difficulties while doing this, including a sale last year of 11 Main, a local marketplace. Alibaba’s real competitive advantage may lie in its anticipated rapid development of the local Chinese logistics infrastructure, which could give it ownership of low origin prices…
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…required some kind of an infrastructure for the guidance system, such as tape on the floor or reflectors. At some point, a member of the Clyde materials team saw a story on a mobile robotic solution with a new kind of guidance system. That set off the light bulb. “What is unique about this technology is that it has cameras…
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…building automation, medical, transportation and infrastructure and other non-industrial sectors. Industrial sectors accounted for over half of the world market in 2014 and 2015, and they are expected to grow much more slowly than non-industrial sectors. Generally transportation and infrastructure, medical, and gaming sectors will grow more quickly than the general market through 2019. Robotics is the fastest growing industrial…
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…changes are required to the infrastructure. Given their relative light weight, the robots could work on a mezzanine. The robots are guided by LocusPoints—the company’s term for a 2D bar code installed on the bottom of the storage units. And while Kiva managed the inventory inside the Kiva system, Quiet’s WMS is in charge of inventory management. When the building…
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…to create a shared asset/shared infrastructure fulfillment platform for piece picking, and they wanted a solution that allowed them to start small and scale up as the business grew.” Quiet matched their desires with Kiva Systems’ mobile e-fulfillment robots, and the game changed—and their business took off. However, Quiet got a wake-up call in March 2012, when Amazon purchased Kiva…
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…operational preferences and/or changing facility infrastructure. It is also easily redeployable between various processes due to increase or decrease in production volume. This solution will be introduced at AUTOMATICA 2016 (Messe München | Munich, Germany | June 21-24, 2016). For more information, please visit Yaskawa’s booth (Hall B6 | booth 502). Additionally, the solution will be introduced in the United…
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