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ABB Robotics today said that a pilot project with Junglekeepers, a U.S. non-profit organization, is demonstrating how robotics and cloud computing can make reforestation efforts faster, more efficient, and scalable. “ABB’s collaboration with Junglekeepers demonstrates how robotics and Cloud technology can play a central role in fighting deforestation as one of the major contributors to climate change,” said Sami Atiya,…
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Pitney Bowes Lockport, Il Square Footage: About 360,000 square feet Throughput: The facility sorts up to 24,000 parcels per hour for the USPS Shifts: 2 shifts per day, 5 days per week plus one shift on Saturday Read the full lenth article on the upgraded Pitney Bowes distribution center Pitney Bowes’ newest facility in Lockport, Ill., is an example of…
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Increased demand for fruit and vegetables across retail and foodservice channels is driving supply chains to invest in automation and other tools that make the transfer of product more efficient while reducing waste, according to Stöcklin Logistics. The company today said it is launching Stöcklin CasePicker to address the specific logistics challenges and opportunities now facing produce shippers. “Until recently,…
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Innovation Works announced last week that Kevin Dowling will serve as interim leader of the Robotics Factory. Dowling, a tech leader who was involved with three IW companies and a founding member and board chair of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, or PRN, brings with him an impressive repertoire of experience and leadership to helm the Robotics Factory program, the organization…
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Automation and simulation promise to help manufacturers build facilities and manage their production lines. Hexagon AB today announced that it is working with NVIDIA Corp. to enable multi-user workflows through a unified view for factory planning and design, as well as optimization of process quality and operations. “Our Hexagon innovation team has been working with NVIDIA to develop opportunities that…
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RobotLAB Inc. today announced that it will sell and integrate Bear Robotics Inc.'s Servi and Servi Plus robots for the restaurant and hospitality industries. RobotLAB recently launched what it claimed was the first robotics integration franchise program. “Our expertise in integrating robots into commercial environments and Bear Robotics' state-of-the-art products make this partnership a perfect match that will enhance the…
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Lift trucks are still the work horses of materials handling. For all the attention on autonomous mobile robots and other forms of robotics, nearly every DC uses manually operated lift trucks to receive goods, crossdock, build pallets for retail store replenishment, or for truck loading, with other duties in between. Lift trucks also happen to be heavy pieces of equipment,…
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The objective sounds relatively simple. On a designated day in a single DC, pick, pack and ship a particular set of SKUs in a range of desired quantities to 24 retail stores. Or 50. Or 100. That’s what a DC does. Right? Yes and no. But there’s a problem: All those new robots. Fulfilling orders is not all that simple…
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Fleets of robots are growing in capacity and functionality, and so is the need to manage them, whether through software or robotics-as-a-service, or RaaS, models. Organizations are searching for best practices and tools to operate, manage, and maintain their robot fleets. These considerations apply to almost any system promising greater efficiency, from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots…
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As hospitals grapple with a shortage of skilled workers, robots could lend a hand. Relay Robotics Inc. today introduced its RelayRx autonomous service robot at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Summer Meetings & Exhibition in Baltimore. More than 100,000 registered nurses have left the workforce in the past two years, according to the American Hospital Association. Moreover, PBS NewsHour…
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The MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard allows autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, from different manufacturers to share their capabilities along with basic information, such as their locations and what they're doing. The objective of the standard is to enable different mobile robots to work together effectively in the same warehouse or factory floor. However, as the interoperability standard is used only…
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Users increasingly need robotic grippers that can function similarly to human hands. That’s particularly true in manufacturing and order-fulfillment facilities, where robots may grasp everything from fragile fruits to delicate decorations. Researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Austria’s Johannes Kepler University and the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United States recently made a fully biodegradable…
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Amazon's purchase of Kiva Systems in 2012 has had a ripple effect on the entire robotics industry. In the wake of the purchase, numerous robotics companies emerged, and interest and investment in warehouse robotics began to grow. Quiet Logistics, which had been a customer of Kiva's, decided to start making its own autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and would go on…
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After announcing their partnership just last week, Hy-Tek Intralogistics and Hai Robotics are already taking the wraps of their first joint project. This companies have developed an automated storage and retrieval system, or ASRS, for a manufacturing and engineering company in Ohio for a GTP buffer system application. The facility had previously used a carousel to manage much of the…
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ResGreen Group International Inc. yesterday said it has signed a new contract with a top automotive supplier to manufacture, integrate, and install its BigBuddy automated guided vehicles, or AGVs, and BotWay traffic management software. BigBuddy will deliver full pods on a customized load-handling frame from an assembly-line station to the staging area. The AGV will then return an empty pod…
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