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Automation promises to transform the food-service industry. Miso Robotics today announced its newest product line, Flippy Wings, which it described as “the only robotic chicken wing frying solution designed from the ground up for high-volume restaurants, including lead innovation partner and multi-brand restaurant company Inspire Brands.” Buffalo Wild Wings, part of the Inspire family of brands, began testing Flippy Wings…
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Festo Corp. and MassRobotics today announced that they have selected the first four companies in the inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program. The catalyst is a new program for the global robotics startup community to advance healthcare developments by providing promising companies with investor and customer introductions, access to subject-matter experts, and a range of technical and marketing support resources.…
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As order volumes increase, labor pools get more competitive, and customer expectations continue to rise, new automation is emerging to help warehouses and distribution centers. Zebra Technologies Corp. today introduced a picking system to improve fulfillment operations. It includes three new mobile robots—FlexShelf, FlexShelf Guide, and RollerTop Guide—as well as a new FetchCore software package for order or batch picking.…
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HAI Robotics today said it has the won the robotics category in the 2021 NextGen Supply Chain Solution Provider Awards, presented by Supply Chain Management Review, a sibling site to Robotics 24/7. The Shenzhen, China-based company provides autonomous case-handling robotics (ACR) for warehouses. Founded in 2016, HAI Robotics has set up five subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, the U.S.,…
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As businesses get back to work after pandemic-induced pauses, more and more are turning to automation for help. In the second quarter, robot orders increased by 67% over the same period last year, said the Association for Advancing Automation yesterday. North American companies ordered 9,853 robots worth a total of $501 million in Q2 2021, up from 5,196 sold during…
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor is providing a grant to retrain people in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area who were unemployed or displaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Connecting Talent to Careers Project” is intended to create a comprehensive national capability for talent identification and attraction for manufacturers nationwide. The…
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MEMPHIS—Last week, the home of the Blues was also host to one of the first major robotics conferences in the U.S. since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic more than a year and a half ago. About 650 people attended the Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference put on by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) and 60 exhibitors and…
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Founded in 1989 to serve Ottawa and eastern Ontario, M CON Products is a provider of precast concrete infrastructure products. As the area that M CON is located in grew, so did the company—ramping up production from 40,000 to 50,000 tons to 70,000 to 80,000 tons of concrete products annually over a five-year period. In addition to the growth in…
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Between aerial drones and ground robots, autonomous data collection is getting easier for a variety of industries. DroneDeploy Inc. today announced new offerings during its sixth annual DroneDeploy Conference. “At DroneDeploy, we see a future where intelligent, autonomous, ground and aerial robotics work alongside us to amplify human potential,” said the San Francisco-based company. “They will automate laborious tasks, keep…
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Mobile robots are spreading in warehouses to help meet e-commerce demand, but they can also be useful in the healthcare and hospitality industries. Techmetics Robotics LLC this week announced two products developed in-house. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm's TRV (for “Techmetics Robotic Vehicle”) series includes three robot bases and 10 systems for service applications. The company's new products were designed…
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How do you design a warehouse to support sales of €1 billion ($1.16 billion U.S.) per year? That warehouse will have to support multiple business channels, including regional business-to-business customers as well as a global distribution network. That was the question put to the logistics team at HARTING Technology Group in 2012. “After 20 years, the software running our existing…
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PickNik Robotics Inc. and Formant Inc. today announced that they are partnering to expand their capabilities to bring cloud-based mobile manipulation to the forefront of robotics. “We're excited to be working with Formant,” stated Dr. Dave Coleman, founder and CEO of PickNik. “We've been watching the maturing robotics industry and see a lot of potential in providing supervised autonomy to…
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MOV.AI today launched its Robotics Engine Platform, the latest version of its software. It said the platform is intended to enable robot manufacturers, systems integrators, and manual logistics vehicle makers to quickly build autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, that can be used in 85% of dynamic environments. “Until now, AMR manufacturers had to choose between long and expensive in-house development…
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Denmark-based Danfoss Power Solutions is a multinational company with more than 71 factories in 20 countries and $7 billion in revenue. Its North American headquarters in Ames, Iowa, has 200,000 sq. ft. of production space, along with office space and 1,000 employees. As a manufacturer of hydraulics for the construction, agriculture, and other off-highway vehicle markets, the company’s primary materials…
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