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After discovering a 1960s-era Big Joe walkie stacker lift truck still in use at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering, the Big Joe Forklifts team wanted to do something special. To honor the decades-old stacker still serving the university’s engineering department, Big Joe donated a brand new IBH stacker, branded with the University of Wisconsin’s signature red and white,…
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Automation and lift truck provider Big Joe Forklifts recently announced four new products and its new corporate theme at ProMat 2025. The trade show was held March 17-20 in Chicago, Ill. The company said its new corporate theme, “Powering Progress,” reflects the new and innovative electrification products and systems it showcased at the show. Latest ProMat 2025 news: This theme…
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…Engineering to dedicate the Toyota Forklift Learning Studio at Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. At No. 2, KION Group’s 2023 revenue for its Industrial Trucks and Services business reached $9.35 billion, converted from Euros (€8.479 billion), compared to $7.85 billion for 2022. That’s a nearly 20% year over year increase for KION, whose international lift truck…
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…resilient and efficient, according to Big Joe Forklifts. The company is showing its latest Big Joe Pallet Mover at Booth N-10028 at PACK EXPO this week in Las Vegas. “The global pandemic accelerated the need and uptake of autonomous vehicles, paving the way for the material handling industry to become educated on how simple, yet effective solutions could be every…
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…megatrends in today’s commerce. The big surge in e-commerce seen in 2020 and early 2021 slowed its pace as consumers returned to stores, but any form of omni-channel distribution or retail replenishment is going to be highly dependent on efficient pallet moves and accurate case picking, and that means forklifts, orderpickers and “operator-up” models are in need to keep goods…
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…announced that it worked with Big Joe Forklifts to develop the Big Joe Pallet Mover. This summer, Robotics 24/7 visited Thoro.ai's headquarters in Pittsburgh, which is across the railroad tracks from Carnegie Robotics, to check out what the company has been working on. “Our real focus as a company has been on taking some world-class technology and using it to…
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…UR10e cobot arm, but a “big brother” option called miniPAL+ which makes use of UR’s new UR20 cobot, which was available for preorder at Automate. The bigger cobot, which starts shipping this summer, features a 20 kg (44 lb.) payload. Robots and people, in sync Another key trend at Automate 2023 was integration, and how it can drive further value.…
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…UR10e cobot arm, but a “big brother” option called miniPAL+ which makes use of UR’s new UR20 cobot, was available for preorder at Automate. The bigger cobot, which starts shipping this summer, features a 20KG payload. Robots and people, in sync Another key trend at Automate 2023 was integration, and how it can drive further value. For example, autonomous mobile…
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…at ProMat 2023 in Chicago, Big Joe Forklifts, in partnership with Thoro.ai, unveiled its first autonomous offering: The Big Joe Pallet Mover. The Saint Carson, Calif.-based company said the new robot was designed to be set up and in use in less than an hour. The pallet mover can transports payloads up to 4,400 lb. (1,995 kg) and has a…
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…operations across 24 markets,” said Joe Oliaro, vice president of sales and chief real estate officer of Wagner Logistics. “We're heavy in the paper industry, automotive, and each picking for direct-to-consumer fulfillment.” Oliaro has worked with Wagner Logistics for almost 14 years, and he explained to Robotics 24/7 how businesses need to rethink multi-use spaces, robotics, and customer demand to…
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…earlier this year, Vecna and Big Joe partnered to bring out an autonomous pallet jack, the Vecna CPJ. Big Joe offers its own version of the autonomous pallet jack, known as the Big Joe “BUD.” The unit is a collaborative or “cobot” pallet jack, so called because while it can operate in full autonomous mode using Vecna’s technology, it can…
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…pedestrian material handling equipment company Big Joe Handling Systems its latest robot—the Vecna CPJ. The pallet jack is designed to bring human-assisted robotics to warehouses and manufacturing facilities with labor-intensive workflows that have been long ignored by robotics automation, the companies said. Waltham, Mass.-based Vecna and Hayward, Calif.-based Big Joe claimed that their robot has been proven to improve throughout…
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Big Joe Forklifts (Booths B3219 & B3419) is previewing several new products, including the company’s vision for a new breed of semi-autonomous machines known as “co-bots,” or collaborative robots, that keep humans in the loop within materials handling workflows to deliver maximum value. Nicknamed “BUD,” Big Joe’s User Directed Pallet Mover showcases the company’s User Directed Automation concept. It features…
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…place. Following its acquisition by forklift and logistics leader KION Group in late 2016, Dematic is now a supply chain solutions operating unit of KION. The unit includes Dematic as well as Egemin, an automated industrial vehicle specialist that previously placed 18th on this list and was acquired by KION in 2015. Dematic again placed third with $2.7 billion in…
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…we consume lots of stuff. Big stuff, small stuff, frivolous stuff - sometimes even useful stuff. Before we ever click Buy Now, there's an entire multi-billion dollar global industry standing by, making sure that all that stuff gets to us - on time and in good condition. The hundreds of thousands of warehouses throughout the world play a vital role…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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