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More companies with materials handling operations are turning to autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, to automate processes like raw material container movements in a flexible manner, without the need for fixed infrastructure. AMR vendors typically offer fleet software to manage routes and missions and monitor fleet productivity, making mobile robots relatively easy to deploy. However, to get the most from…
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Pizza robot maker Piestro announced yesterday it is partnering with Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery company spun out of food giant Postmates. When a customer places an order, Piestro’s scheduling system will notify Serve’s fleet and the nearest available robot will pick up the pizza for transport from a Piestro pod. The partnership will roll out in the coming…
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AMR maker Locus Robotics Inc. has won the 2022 IFOY Award for its Autonomous Mobile Robot System in the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV/AMR) category following a three-stage audit held over a 5-day period. “Locus Robotics is honored to be chosen as a 2022 IFOY Award winner,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “The rigorous IFOY testing and evaluation process…
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As more robots, people, and other equipment race around warehouses, traffic control can be a major challenge. inVia Robotics Inc. yesterday announced the launch of Traffic Quality Index, a new algorithm in its inVia Logic software. The company said the latest software update will speed up e-commerce order fulfillment by anticipating and mitigating the congestion of pickers in warehouse aisles.…
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An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, has assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The group's findings, published in Nature Communications, identify key opportunities and key threats that need to be considered while developing, deploying, and governing robotics and autonomous systems. The key opportunities robotics and…
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Numerous vendors have designed and offered mobile robots for warehouse use, but several are starting to offer them to factories. ASPINA Inc. last week announced that it has developed an autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, to save labor transporting materials in manufacturing plants. Founded in 1918, Shinano Kenshi Co. rebranded itself as ASPINA in 2019. The Nagano, Japan-based company develops…
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OPEX Corp. said it plans to showcase its technology at the CeMAT Australia intralogistics and materials handling trade show later this month. OPEX automation experts will discuss the capabilities of Perfect Pick, its robotic goods-to-person picking system, and Sure Sort, its robotic sorting system. In addition, it will share information on the new Infinity automated storage and retrieval system 〈ASRS〉.…
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Peerless Media is pleased to announce that Aaron Prather, senior technical adviser at FedEx Express, will deliver the keynote address at the Robot Applications Conference 2022, or RAC ’22. The virtual event, which is presented by Robotics 24/7, will be on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. It is designed to share end users’ perspectives on how to best apply automation.…
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Advanced software, materials, and 3D printing are enabling a new generation of manufacturing. VulcanForms Inc., which builds and operates digital manufacturing infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $355 million and that it is valued at over $1 billion. The company also revealed its first production facilities for precision metal parts and assemblies in Devens and Newburyport, Mass. “By scaling…
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The market for warehouse automation is exploding because companies with fulfillment operations can’t find enough workers to stick with largely manual processes in the face of rapidly growing e-commerce volumes. At least that's what conventional wisdom posits. That idea has companies looking at autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and other types of warehouse automation, such as robotic, high-density goods-to-person (GTP) systems,…
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Ondas Holdings Inc. today announced that it has signed a term sheet to acquire Airobotics Ltd., adding it to its American Robotics Inc. unit for drone data collection. Ondas said it expects the merger or acquisition to complement American Robotics' systems, as well as expand the applications and markets it can serve. “Airobotics' Optimus System is a sophisticated automated drone…
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Waymo LLC and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. last week announced that their autonomous trucking pilot in Texas will include deliveries of goods for J.B. Hunt customer Wayfair LLC. J.B. Hunt and Waymo will conduct their autonomous truck test for about six weeks in July and August along the I-45 corridor between Houston and Dallas, where they began their original…
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There is no end in sight for the massive shortage of skilled workers, especially when it comes to labor-intensive sectors. By some calculations, the warehousing industry alone needs to fill nearly half a million jobs. People who traditionally worked these positions are retiring or quitting in droves, and younger generations don’t gravitate to work that is often dull, dirty, or…
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To increase collaborative robots, or cobots, capabilities and broaden their application range, robotics companies are leveraging advances in both vision and motion control systems. One of the most important recent developments in vision technology has been 3D vision. “3D vision systems are becoming very easy to integrate into robot applications and provide much better information for a robotic application than…
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“I’ve never seen so much interest, if not desperation, to improve fulfillment,” said James Lawton, vice president and general manager of robotics automation at Zebra Technologies. And that’s true for companies as diverse as FedEx and iHerb. Both companies, and many others in between, have recently turned to piece-picking robotic systems to solve their fulfillment challenges. But we are to…
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