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More mobile robots are coming to the hospitality industry. Savioke Inc. this week announced that Seaview Investors LLC has added a Relay service robot to each of its hotels in the Western U.S. The companies said the service robots will perform deliveries, allowing staffers to focus on high-value tasks and improving the guest experience. “The robots contribute to the forward-thinking…
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The way Dexai Robotics co-founder and CEO David Johnson sees it, restaurant-industry automation is heating up. “There’s a great ecosystem that is building around this idea that food production is like a warehouse or a factory in that you are making a product for a customer,” he said. “But it’s different because you are making it just in time for…
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To cope with the ongoing e-commerce boom and nationwide labor crunch, the use of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) is growing exponentially. AMRs serve as a force multiplier of constrained labor resources by safely and swiftly automating the movement of goods, components, and parts throughout a facility. In this webcast you will learn: 4 proven workflows to improve operations How to…
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Robotic-assisted surgery platform maker Virtual Incision Corp. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an Investigational Device Exemption supplement to complete the final stage of its clinical study analyzing the MIRA platform in bowel-resection procedures. The approval was supported by a favorable interim clinical study report on the safety profile of MIRA, said the company. MIRA platform…
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Consolidation is continuing among supply chain automation providers, with MHS Global announcing yesterday that it is merging with Fortna Inc. to form a multi-billion-dollar multinational providing parcel, warehousing and distribution, and lifecycle services. The companies said the combination of MHS's automation and Fortna's operational optimization software will serve the end-to-end needs of logistics operations. “MHS has built its reputation over…
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At MODEX 2022 last month in Atlanta, one of the more promising robots was Stretch, a truck-unloading system developed by Boston Dynamics Inc. The Waltham, Mass.-based company, best known for videos of its legged robots, is now working to address the needs of warehouses and distribution centers. Stretch joined the Atlas humanoid robot and the Spot quadruped for industrial inspections.…
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The headline in the weekend Wall Street Journal caught my eye. “More Online Shoppers Are Taking It Offline.” The gist of the article was that pretty much everyone, including the materials handling industry, assumed that in-person shopping was dead in the water. Instead, the Journal reported, “stores are mounting a comeback. … By the fourth quarter of 2021….consumer buying habits…
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Myomo Inc. is one step closer to manufacturing and selling its robotic rehabilitation devices in China. Earlier this month, the Boston-based company announced that it had received a portion of the technology license fee payment from the joint venture it is establishing with Beijing-based medical device company Beijing Ryzur Exiom Medical Investment Co. Myomo received $1 million of the $2.7…
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East Stone Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, last week announced it is entering a business agreement with ICONIQ Holding Ltd., a maker of autonomous electric vehicle technologies that does business as NWTN. NWTN said it is a green mobility technology company focused on what it called SPVs for “smart passenger vehicles.” Alan Wu is the…
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Last year, mergers between robotics startups and special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, were all the rage. Occasionally, however, some deals don't work out. Integrity Implants Inc., which does business as Accelus, last week said that it and CHP Merger Corp. have mutually agreed to terminate a business combination agreement “as a result of market conditions.” “In light of market conditions,…
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The demand for picking robots has reached an inflection point. “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. They and many others have recently turned to piece-picking automation to solve their…
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week said they have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient during a critical window of time that could save…
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Surgical robots are starting to play a key role in the medical space and are helping increase positive outcomes for both doctors and patients. The promise is that these robots will work alongside surgeons to move from manual laparoscopy to more efficient approaches—expanding the number of patients who can have minimally invasive surgery. Robotic systems are now being used for…
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Vibration is an important but easily overlooked topic in robotics design. Developers and engineers should focus as much on whether a reducer causes vibration as on its other characteristics. As businesses plan to use automation to augment or replace increasingly expensive human labor, they focus on two decisive factors: the return on investment and the expected service life of a…
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Federal government technology partner Noblis Inc. this week announced that it has received a U.S. patent for technology to collectively optimize cooperative actions among autonomous connected machines. Specifically, the Reston, Va. based nonprofit was awarded U.S. Patent 11,283,874. A unified plan This system allows ad hoc collections of nearby machines to independently plan motion paths and earn trust from other…
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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