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Plus this week announced that SF Express has chosen it for what it described as China's first commercial freight pilot with supervised autonomous trucks. As part of the ongoing pilot, Plus is running its autonomous trucks on two long-haul routes—900 miles round trip between Wuhan and Wuxi and 1,000 miles round trip between Changshu and Wuhan. Cupertino, Calif.-based Plus, formerly…
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COVID-19 has disrupted global manufacturing, supply chains, and conferences, but commercial robotics applications have continued to mature. This week's Automate Forward virtual event demonstrated the growing interest in automation for the manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain industries. “Q4 of 2020 was the second-highest ever for robotics sales,” said Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). “People are…
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Automate Forward, the virtual version of the biennial Automate conference and trade show, was held this week. The in-person event had been co-located with Promat at McCormick Place in Chicago for several years and would been held in Detroit for the first time. Automate Forward provided an opportunity for integrators and users to learn about robots and automation for a…
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Blue Ocean Robotics ApS today announced that Gallup-McKinley County Schools in New Mexico will use 37 of its UVD Robots in 34 schools, two administrative buildings, and one warehouse to help fight against the novel coronavirus. The Odense, Denmark-based company claimed it is the largest deployment of disinfection robots to a school district in the U.S. so far. ”COVID has…
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Warehouse execution system software (WES) grew out of the need for automated distribution centers to throttle the release of order fulfillment through automation in a way that met customer delivery windows while keeping utilization high and steady. The first WES suppliers got a foothold in Distribution Centers (DCs) that were installing high-end, fixed automation like sortation systems. These operations needed…
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Increasing demand in e-commerce and order volumes in general are challenging warehouses to improve efficienciy and quality, even as they face capacity and space constraints. Körber Supply Chain and Libiao Robotics yesterday announced that they have teamed up to deliver flexible supply chain automation to customers in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and Latin America. Hangzhou, China-based Libiao Robotics integrates logistics…
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The market for autonomous mobile robots performing material handling tasks has expanded greatly in the past few years, with global revenues of $223 million (U.S.) in 2016 expanding to $800 million in 2020, said ABI Research. The market advisory firm yesterday said it has identified and profiled 10 of the most promising vendors of autonomous handling robots. They include Teradyne,…
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inVia Robotics Inc., which provides warehouse automation for e-commerce, yesterday announced that Cargo Cove Fulfillment has chosen inVia's optimization software to accelerate digital transformation in its facility in Jacksonville, Fla. Cargo Cove will take a phased approach to automation. First, it will first deploy inVia PickMate to direct workers along the most efficient routes through the warehouse to take products…
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Canada’s largest exporter of containers needed to maximize storage and performance to answer growing volumes. To do so, their equipment had to lift to great heights – and keep at it throughout an intense workload. Ray-Mont Logistics provides seamless integrated logistics solutions to facilitate the international trade of containerized cargo. Its terminals handle and containerize agricultural products, plastic resins as…
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Robotics 24/7 is a new resource from Peerless Media serving developers, systems integrators, and operations managers across the robotics ecosystem. Its primary focus is on applications in the supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing sectors, with the goal of representing end users as much as technologists. “The more voices we have out there, the better,” said Aaron Prather, senior technical advisor…
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ACEINNA Inc., which develops inertial based guidance and navigation systems for autonomous vehicles and devices, today announced the commercial availability of OpenARC. The company said its new positioning hardware and software offers easy systems integration. Andover, Mass.-based ACEINNA said its MEMS-based, open-source, inertial sensing systems enable centimeter-accurate navigation systems. The company said its isolated current sensor product family is based…
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Collaborative Mobile Robotics Transform Fulfillment Operations
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Create Technologies Ltd., or Createc, which develops and applies technologies for nuclear decommissioning around the world, has won a contract to develop systems for underwater operations. The Cockermouth, U.K.-based company provides imaging, sensors, and robotics systems to sectors including defense, security, rail, and nuclear industries. Createc employs 29 people, including technical experts and developers in fields such as computer vision,…
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Vaarst launched today and said its goal is to revolutionize the offshore robotics sector by using intelligent data flows for smart asset management and to create an energy-efficient and more sustainable future. The company is a technology spin-off of subsea robotic and hydrographic survey provider Rovco, which was founded in 2015 and has invested heavily in real-time artificial intelligence-based 3D…
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One of the biggest challenges facing U.S. manufacturers is the shortage of skilled talent to work with robots and automation. The East Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, or eKAMI, has been retraining workers to be robotics technicians. This week, Kentucky officials announced the funding of economic development projects, including $3 million for eKAMI's Advanced Robotic Instruction Project. “These projects are creating…
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