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Healthcare personnel have been under great stress, but robots can help with some tasks. Diligent Robotics today announced that it has closed over $30 million in Series B funding, bringing the total investment raised to date to nearly $50 million. “We are proud to have the full support of our past investors and welcome our new partners who joined during…
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Supply chain automation is a global affair, with innovations and use cases around the world. Geekplus Technology Co. today announced that it has won an award at the SITL (Semaine de l'Innovation du Transport & de la Logistique) conference in Paris. The Beijing-based company won the award in the Intralogistics, Robotics and Automation category for its RoboShuttle 8 system. “As…
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Teledyne FLIR Defense last week announced that it has teamed up with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE C360 multi-gas detector on commercial aerial drones and Boston Dynamics Inc.’s Spot robot. The systems will enable remote monitoring of chemical threats in industrial and public safety applications, said the companies. “By deploying a chemical detector on drones and ground…
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As markets for automation continue to expand around the world, some key robotics clusters have emerged as hubs of innovation. In the U.S., innovation is happening all over the country, but a few hotbed areas include Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley, and Boston. Denmark, Germany, and Sweden are among the most automated countries in the world, according to the International Federation of…
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While most autonomous truck trials have been in the southern and western U.S., they are beginning to expand. Kodiak Robotics Inc. today said it has partnered with U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. to launch autonomous freight service between Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. U.S. Xpress' trucks will use Kodiak's autonomy technology. Founded in 2018, Kodiak Robotics said it has designed its technology…
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This week at the Smart Factory & Factory Automation Exhibition, or SFAW 2022, in Seoul, South Korea, VisionNav Robotics showed off its new system for loading and unloading trucks. The company said the event marked the beginning of its global tour for the product. As the beginning and end of intralogistics, truck operations at loading docks can be the most…
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The simplest way to describe the overall findings from this year’s “Annual Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Equipment Survey” is that it’s “go-time” for investment in warehouse automation. The budget findings in our annual survey jumped up, with elevated interest and use levels for numerous types of materials handling automation, including mobile robots and other forms of warehouse robotics. However,…
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With the rapid growth of e-commerce, warehouses and logistics chains are increasingly turning to automation. An increasing number of warehouses are choosing to buy mobile robots to replace traditional fixed automation, according to IDTechEx. Traditional automation solutions, such as retrieval AS/RS, automated storage shuttles, automated sorting, robotic palletizing, and conveyor systems, are mostly complex and fixed systems. But recently, AGVs,…
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I’ve never seen so much interest, if not desperation, to improve fulfillment,” says 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…
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Last week's MODEX 2022 trade show featured numerous demonstrations of materials handling technology, a return to face-to-face events with more than 37,000 attendees, and a growing number of robotics exhibitors. While global supply chain challenges, labor shortages, and pandemic-accelerated e-commerce have all increased adoption of supply chain automation, what can suppliers, integrators, and, most importantly, operators expect? What should end…
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After a few years of mostly virtual or smaller events because of COVID-19, both exhibitors and attendees were relieved to reunite in person for MODEX 2022 in Atlanta last week. Robotics also had a strong presence at the biennial materials handling trade show, growing from about 10% five or six years ago to nearly 60% this year, according to several…
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Construction automation company Built Robotics announced the close of a $64 million Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $112 million. Built Robotics' motto is to “build the robots that build the world.” Its ExoSystem product is retrofitted onto excavators to make them autonomous. The company said the system is deployed across the $1 trillion earthmoving…
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WeatherFlow-Tempest this week announced a collaboration with MarkSetBot to integrate data from their fleet of robotic sailing buoys into the company's SailFlow App. WeatherFlow-Tempest, Inc. is a technology company claiming to be reshaping the private sector weather industry. It said its mission is to help mitigate and control the enormous cost of weather on business and daily life. Formed in…
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Industry 4.0 – Driving India to a $5 Trillion Economy
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Unlock Efficiency, Flexibility and Cost Savings with AGVs Driven by Natural Feature Navigation
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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