Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.40
…Big Joe developed its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) with Thoro.ai and is continuing to add features. The Pallet Mover provides floor-to-floor pallet transportation and drop-off, which the company claimed can be set up and running in less than an hour, it said. The Big Joe Pallet Mover can travel to a destination and deliver pallets to preset locations. When the zone-drop feature is used, the AMR will take a load to a predefined area in a facility with multiple delivery locations. It can place a pallet in the first open spot based on sequential order – even if the spots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.94
…as part of an agreement with Nilfisk in 2020, Thoro.ai has spent the past three years forming new relationships and upgrading its services and technology for mobile robots. 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.14
…recently launched Pallet Mover AMR developed in partnership with Thoro.ai. The autonomous unit is easy to deploy with some mapping with the AMR and setting up of zone drops on the unit’s tablet, explained Bill Pedriana, Big Joe’s CMO. The aim, he added, is to make pallet moving automation quick to deploy and completely “user directed” via the AMR’s tablet, to bring robotics efficiency to moves between work cells, or other pallet moves in a facility, with no need to integrate the AMR to a backend system. This also frees up lift truck operators for more complex workflows, or keeps…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.47
…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, Nicholas Malewicki, the general…