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…Engelberger Robotics Awards at its Automate 2024 trade show. Joe Gemma, Reymond Clavel, and Marc-Olivier Demaurex will be awarded during a dinner held May 8 from 5:15 to 8 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Tickets for the event, which includes a cocktail reception and dinner, may be purchased when registering for the Automate 2024 Show and Conference. A3’s Automate trade show will be held May 6-9 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Attendance is free. A3 said this year’s show is the biggest yet, featuring more than 365,000 square feet of exhibit space, over 800 exhibitors, and…
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…it provides access to solutions without capital outlay, said Joe Couto, executive vice president of robotics and third-party logistics (3PL) at integrator and software provider Körber Business Area Supply Chain. Couto said that Körber saw this appeal with the RaaS success of its partner Locus Robotics. Since not all its robotics partners offered RaaS, Körber launched an RaaS program of its own. “We saw from observing the market and what Locus was doing that the model works well,” he recalled. “We felt why not create our own RaaS program and really open the door to a broader market that couldn’t…
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…and general manager for robotics automation at Zebra Technologies Joe Oliaro, vice president of sales and chief real estate officer at Wagner Logistics Kait Peterson, senior director of product marketing at Locus Robotics John Santagate, vice president of robotics at Körber Supply Chain Suppliers harness data for continuous improvement How have mobile robots evolved in the past year? We've seen a mix of larger models, higher reaches, and more sophisticated software. Kait Peterson, Locus Robotics Peterson: Locus is continually improving our robots' hardware and software capabilities based on customer needs, use cases, and incorporating the latest technologies and innovations. This…
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…deploy to become more 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 day, not just to solve its pain points during a crisis,” said Brendan Brett, the new director of strategic partnerships at Big Joe's Autonomous Division. “I look forward to helping provide growth and development opportunities for…
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…Earlier this year, it 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 apply to indoor industrial equipment that performs manual and repetitive tasks,” Patrick Mondi, CEO of Thoro.ai, told Robotics 24/7. The company's key differentiator is its autonomy stack, the technology that enables mobile robots to have the…
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…makes use of the 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. For example, autonomous mobile robot (AMR) vendors are increasingly focused on integration, including Locus Robotics, whose mobile robots could be found not just at its booth, but also at other exhibitor booths. At the Fanuc booth,…
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…are not within the work zone, they said. A “big brother,” the miniPAL+ featuring a UR20 cobot, will be available for preorders in the booth. Driven by a shared vision of helping manufacturers deploy cobots at scale, Rapid Robotics’ strategic partnership with Universal Robots has supported its expanded offerings to include vital end-of-line applications such as box-building, packing, and palletizing. At the UR booth, Rapid will exhibit a case-packing operation using a UR5e that is integrated with its software stack. Attendees can see the pretrained cobot pick up multiple bottles at once and then pack them neatly into a case,…
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Last month 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 maximum speed of about 2.8 mph. It can operate continuously for 10 hours on a charge, according to a press release announcing the robot. Customers will see ROI quickly, says Big Joe In an interview with Robotics 24/7,…
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…million sq. ft. of 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 gain efficiency. Demand for logistics robots still increasing What are robots handling for your customers? Oliaro: We worked with an arts-and-crafts group in Missouri. It had small items and wanted a way to bring costs down.…
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…resignation,” boomers retiring, and immigration restrictions getting tougher. As Joe Campbell at Universal Robots has noted, even if you took all the people who are unemployed, you still couldn't fill the millions of open positions in manufacturing. Would reshoring of production to the U.S. help or worsen that situation? Martinelli: It's complicated. Supply chains could shorten, which is nice, but there's still a need for manufacturing talent in the U.S. Another challenge is that nobody really wants to stand at an ASRS. They'll start to feel more like consumer products for what Gartner called the “gaming generation.” What are some…
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…the best areas to target your automation dollars, said Joe Campbell, senior manager of strategic marketing and application development at collaborative robot leader Universal Robots. “Palletizing has been low-hanging fruit for years,” he said. “If you have openings for these jobs, you’re probably not filling them.” The reluctance of humans to take on this task has been a boon for robotics. While not a new technology or concept, semi-automated and fully automated palletizing is now enjoying popularity and high adoption. Equipment is also evolving into more sophisticated systems capable of managing end-to-end palletizing and depalletizing operations. “The desire to work…
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…“Google Earth for the oceans.” Founded in 2018 by Joe Wolfel and Judson Kauffman, two former U.S. Navy SEALs, Terradepth last month launched its Absolute Ocean (AO) platform, a cloud-based platform for sharing and analyzing ocean data securely. The Austin, Texas-based company uses “Buddy Drones,” autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), to collect data at depths of 6,000 m (1,685 ft.) that it provides as a service for marine exploration and decision making. “Terradepth’s unique unmanned submersible technology will enable cost-effective, detailed data-capture that, when paired with big data analytics and machine learning, will offer new insights into our oceans,” said the…