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Robot picking operations depend on perception, grasping, and integrated systems. Soft Robotics Inc. is displaying its mGripAI system in multiple booths at the PACK EXPO International Exposition in Chicago this week. mGripAI is designed to enable the automation of production processes in the food and consumer packaged goods industries. “We're excited to show the flexibility of mGripAI to handle products…
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Food and automated storage systems are coming together. AutoStore AS today said that it has chosen StrongPoint ASA to install its first system designed for food management. It includes three temperature zones: ambient, chilled, and now frozen. StrongPoint is AutoStore’s first and only grocery-focused distribution partner. “This is a great day for grocery retailers and food management companies looking at…
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A major challenge facing developing economies such as India is overdependence on employment in primary sector economic activities like agriculture. With the advent of Industry 4.0, agricultural robots can drastically improve productivity as people continue moving to cities for higher value-added activities. Here’s a comparison of employment and its contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) between India and the U.S.:…
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The next packaging solution that comes into your DC may look less like a traditional automated pack out line and more like a robotic work cell in manufacturing. Not that packaging with robots is an entirely new frontier—they are often used to package goods coming off manufacturing lines. The difference today is that robots are edging further into e-commerce pack-out,…
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Celera Motion yesterday announced what it claimed is “the world's smallest and fastest servo drive.” The Everest S, the latest addition to the Everest series, is about 30% smaller than its predecessor. The drive's EtherCAT and CANopen versions also deliver bus latency reduced to a single cycle, claimed Celera. “We’re excited to introduce the Everest S to meet the growing…
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OSARO will team up with automation integrator Elm Electrical to demonstrate how cobots can piece-pick close at hand to humans during PACK EXPO International Oct. 23-26 in Chicago. The CRX-10iA/L FANUC cobot will be handing out mints and business cards to visitors in a bin-picking exercise as part of the demo at the trade show hosted by the Packaging Machinery…
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ABB Robotics earlier this week announced it has teamed up with biotechnology company Vyripharm Enterprises Inc. to develop an automated laboratory testing platform. The companies said the platform will be used for quality control of raw material to novel pharmaceutical compounds. This fully automated robotic platform will be the first of its kind and will support the capture of data…
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In 2019, Aaron Prather, then senior technology advisor at FedEx Express, challenged autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, vendors to work on interoperability at the Association for Advancing Automation’s first AMR Conference in Louisville, Ky. He said that either suppliers cooperate to get their robots “to play well together,” or major users such as FedEx would look elsewhere. Interoperability was once…
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According to a recent Peerless study, 63% of companies plan to either buy or lease lift trucks in the next 1-2 years. But how do you know if leasing is the right path for your operation? Get answers to some of your most pressing questions, including: How do I know if leasing is right for me? What hidden fees and…
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At ROSCon 2022, NVIDIA announced the newest Isaac ROS software release, Developer Preview (DP) 2. This release includes new cloud– and edge-to-robot task management and monitoring software for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets as well as additional features for ROS 2 developers. NVIDIA Isaac ROS consists of individual packages (GEMs) and complete pipelines (NITROS) for hardware-accelerated performance. In addition to…
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Sam's Club, a division of Walmart Inc., today announced the completion of a national, chain-wide roll out of 'Inventory Scan' towers that have been added to their existing fleet of robotic scrubbers. Sam’s Club partnered with San Diego, Calif-based Brain Corp for the rollout. The new scanning accessory has been fitted to the almost 600 autonomous floor scrubbers already deployed…
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As warehouses add automation, they need more capable and integrated automation. Vecna Robotics today announced a major software release and hardware upgrades to its AFL-class autonomous forklift. The warehouse automation market will double over the next five years, estimated LogisticsIQ. A survey conducted by Modern Materials Handling (a sibling site to Robotics 24/7) found that 15% to 20% of warehouses…
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AMP Robotics Corp. is working to address the needs of materials recovery facilities, or MRFs, by using artificial intelligence, machine vision, and robotics. The Denver-based company today announced that it is developing an automated system that will help MRFs identify and separate film and flexible packaging. The name of the new system is Vortex, and it was developed as part…
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Carhartt needed a way to scale and close their capacity gap to improve distribution and speed. DHL Supply Chain recommended Locus Robotics’ multi-bot solution to reduce cycles and lessen the amount of walking for associates. With Locus, “we saw an immediate impact to productivity and throughput on day one as well as a big boost in employee morale,” said Tim…
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Picking robots are keeping pace with growing supply chain demand. Plus One Robotics Inc. yesterday announced that its robotic parcel-handling platform has performed more than 1 million picks per day in production and reached over half a billion parcel picks globally. “Our north star will always be to increase our customers’ total picks per day,” stated Erik Nieves, founder and…
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