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Bob Trebilcock Title: Outgoing executive editor, Modern Materials Handling Location: Chicago Experience: Covered materials handling, technology, logistics, and supply chain topics for nearly 40 years. Modern: The vendors and the systems you write about have changed a lot these past 25 years. Is it just vendor names, or is there a fundamentally different technology stack out there today? Trebilcock: On…
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Neura Robotics, a global pioneer in cognitive robotics, and Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies, a global leader in industrial robotics and automation, have announced their strategic partnership. This alliance aims to revolutionize the manufacturing industry by introducing cognitive robots into factory automation, leveraging advanced AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and safety, the partners said. Unlike traditional industrial robots, cognitive…
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OSARO, a machine-learning-enabled robotics for e-commerce company, is teaming with IHI Logistics & Machinery Corporation (IHI), a Tokyo-based integrator of factory automation equipment and industrial machinery, to increase adoption of robotics systems in warehouses across Japan. As part of the agreement, IHI will license multiple OSARO Robotic Depalletizing Systems, which use OSARO SightWorks Perception for picking, mixed-case depalletizing, induction, kitting…
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Japanese autonomous mobile robot (AMR) conveyance systems provider LexxPluss recently announced it is investing heavily in the U.S. to provide its conveyance systems to U.S. customers. LexxPluss announced a new U.S. demo space in June 2023 to showcase the capabilities of its flexible robotic fleets. “We are excited to launch our new demo space and see this as part of…
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AI software company Micropsi Industries recently announced MIRAI 2, the latest generation of its AI-vision software for robotic automation. MIRAI 2 builds upon the success of its previous releases and comes with five new features that, according to Micropsi, enhance manufacturers’ ability to reliably solve automation tasks with variance in position, shape, color, lighting or background. The software is available…
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Robot manufacturer Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) recently announced the launch of its MiR1200 pallet jack autonomous mobile robot (AMR). With AI pallet detection powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the MiR1200 pallet jack uses 3D machine vision to identify, pick up, and deliver pallets. “We believe that the built-in AI detection system is a significant improvement over older detection technologies,”…
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Teradyne Robotics recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring new AI capabilities to automation applications. Teradyne is the parent company of collaborative robot arm provider Universal Robots (UR) and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). Last week, UR demonstrated an autonomous inspection system powered by NVIDIA Isaac cuMotion path planning at the GTC global AI conference…
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Robot Era, a Beijing-based humanoid robot startup, announced that it will open-source its reinforcement learning (RL) framework Humanoid-Gym on GitHub. The move is intended to lower the threshold of developing RL algorithms for humanoid roboticists worldwide, providing them with a practical platform to build on to avoid “reinventing the wheels.” Reinforcement learning options on Robot Era robots Robot Era, according…
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Digitalization is already delivering significant advances in productivity, speed and visibility to supply chain operations. Orchestration promises to build on and amplify those benefits. Advancing Digitalization Supply chain digitalization has advanced rapidly in the last four years. Within DHL Supply Chain, over 7,200 digitalization projects have been completed. These projects touch virtually every aspect of the supply chain and cover…
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute recently announced that three consortium member projects were selected from over 100 proposals submitted to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge held earlier in 2024. The ARM Institute is a DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institute and a member of the Manufacturing USA Network.…
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LexxPluss, a Japanese automation solutions provider offering autonomous mobile robots (AMR) technology, has established a U.S. office in Indiana, at a facility that also accomodates its new U.S. demo space, the company has annnounced. The 30x30 ft. demo space is located in the Indiana IoT Lab, in Fishers, Indiana. LexxPluss also has established a U.S. subsidiary, opened a new U.S.…
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Siemens, Universal Robots (UR), and Zivid have joined forces to create a smart, 3D-vision enabled robotic picking solution that taps the capabilities of each company. According to the partners, the solution is capable of a picking a wide variety of SKU items to help solve order picking challenges. The partners explained the solution is composed of these key technologies: Siemens'…
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Franka Robotics recently announced the release of its Franka MATLAB Toolbox, an interface designed to integrate theory and application in robotics research. This toolbox provides researchers with all necessary control options and signals from the Franka Research 3 robot, and offers a comprehensive set of features, including MATLAB scripts, Simulink blocks and advanced demos. Direct integration, connections Researchers can use…
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Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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