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As demand grows for robots in warehouses worldwide, some vendors are actively pursuing new markets. Geekplus Technology Co. last week announced that it has established formal agreements with more than 50 integrators to accelerate its international expansion. “Our network of integrators is an extremely valuable part of our success,” stated Lit Fung, vice president and managing director of international business…
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With many robotics and software vendors offering competing products, how can prospective users determine which ones to follow? inVia Robotics Inc. last week announced that Gartner Inc. has included it in the 2022 list of “Cool Vendors in Supply Chain Technology.” “This recognition from Gartner amplifies our continued commitment to solving the random access to inventory issue facing e-commerce warehouses,”…
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Realtime Robotics Inc. today announced that it has integrated its RapidPlan motion planning and control software for industrial robots with Siemens Process Simulate. The companies said this will enable Siemens customers to use RapidPlan without leaving Process Simulate as part of their regular workflows. “Robot programming and task planning has been a time-consuming—and frankly, difficult—process for far too long,” said…
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In late August, Gap Inc., a company I’ve covered over the years in Modern Materials Handling, opened its newest Customer Experience Center in Longview, Texas. The 850,000 square foot distribution center is dedicated to e-fulfillment for Old Navy in the Southwest and is part of Gap Inc.’s continued focus on enhancing the quality of its customer service; earlier this summer,…
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The 2020s have ushered in a series of headaches for warehousing and supply chain managers. Two of them are supply shortages and a tight labor market with growing wages. Though automation can't solve material shortages, the industry's latest generation of robotic goods-to-person systems and advances in mobile robots can significantly reduce distribution centers' dependency on manual labor. Warehouses are increasingly…
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Picnic Works has added Domino’s Pizza Enterprises LTD to its growing customer base. The Seattle-based company announced earlier this week that a Domino’s store in Berlin is trialing the company’s pizza making machine. The goal of the pilot in Berlin is to understand how automated pizza assembly can assist Domino’s employees in producing fresh, consistent pizza as efficiently as possible,…
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While numerous robot models are now available, roughly 70% of North American warehouses aren't automated. Why is that? Challenges include the need to get user feedback during the development process and for operator training upon commercialization. Addverb Technologies Pvt. this week opened a new Center of Excellence for Advanced Robotics Research and Development in Fremont, Calif. Addverb's center of excellence…
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Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities Stanford University - September 9th and 12th, 2022 It is clear that our world is at an inflection point. Awareness of the interconnection between overarching factors such as climate change, technological transformation, global security and social justice is increasing - as is the understanding that addressing these issues will require an informed, multifaceted and visionary…
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Pisa, Italy-based Medical Microinstruments, or MMI, has launched a set of instruments it said were designed to better address the challenges of microsurgery. The products are part of the company’s Supermicro NanoWrist line and are designed to be used with the Symani Surgical System, the company’s two-armed robotic surgical machine. The tips of the new instruments are half the width…
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Pan Pacific Pet, one of the largest pet retail distributors across Canada, yesterday announced that it plans to use technology from Attabotics in its newest warehouse. The company plans to introduce automated storage and retrieval system, or ASRS, to its 120,000-sq.-ft. facility north of Calgary in Rocky View County, Alberta. “Ingenuity and resourcefulness is something the Pan Pacific Pet team…
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Uber Technologies Inc. and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle company, today announced a multi-year partnership to use Nuro's autonomous, electric vehicles for food deliveries in the U.S. Uber Eats consumers will be able to order meals and goods delivered by Nuro's zero-occupant autonomous delivery vehicles, which run on public roads and are built specifically to carry food and other goods. The…
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute is calling on manufacturers that use robotics, AI, and machine learning to participate in a survey this fall. The institute developed the survey with its Data for Artificial Intelligence Working Group, or DAWG, to understand how it can help operators better take advantage of the technologies. Michael Skocik, senior programs manager at…
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Recycling robot provider EverestLabs has opened its first cloud-based robot operation center to give its customers 24 hours of support. The center will be based out of the company’s headquarters in Fremont, Calif., and in Chennai, India, where it has a team of workers. EverestLabs’ team of engineers and technologists will help its materials recovery facilities customers, or MRFs, monitor…
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For robots to be useful in a widening range of applications, motion planning needs to be as straightforward as possible. Realtime Robotics Inc. today said it has secured $14.4 million in additional funding. The company recently launched its RapidPlan software, which is designed to help manufacturers design and deploy industrial automation faster and more efficiently. “We have seen a tremendous…
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Smart Robotics today announced three new versions of its Smart Palletizer collaborative robot system. The Eindhoven, Netherlands-based company said its newly engineered offerings will offer warehouses more options to automate and optimize warehouses in response to growing labor shortages. “Since the Smart Palletizer can take over physically demanding, repetitive tasks, we’re pleased to introduce our new product line to the…
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