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Yale Lift Truck Technologies announced the availability of its Reliant forklift operator assist offering on an additional 16 Yale models at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta. The new entrants to the Yale Reliant lineup are predominantly warehouse lift trucks. This expansion brings Reliant’s availability to 59 Yale models covering a wide range of applications, including those common in retail and e-commerce fulfillment, wholesale distribution and third-party logistics operations. Reliant expansion, ADS technology highlighted at MODEX The Reliant expansion includes several models that weren’t previously available for standard order with the technology, along with additional capacities or configurations of models for which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.06
Yale Lift Truck Technologies announced standalone availability of its advanced dynamic stability (ADS), one of the underlying technologies in the company’s Reliant forklift operator assist offering. ADS is engineered to help maintain overall stability and minimize the potential for forklift tip overs. Yale demonstrated the ADS at MODEX 2024. Stability on forklifts Previously available in packages with one or more of the other Yale Reliant technologies, such as object detection, proximity detection and real-time location sensing, warehouse lift trucks can now be equipped with ADS as an independent option. ADS continuously monitors forklift and load status and automatically applies interventions…
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…Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Yale Information Society Project. She is also an affiliate at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. The AI Institute said Darling’s team will explore immediate as well as long-term questions on the implementation and use of robots, their impact on the workplace, infrastructure, and other topics. It will perform studies and experiments to generate data needed for informed ethics and policy decisions. The team will also develop a series of talks and workshops at the intersection of ethics, law, economics, and robotics to offer a platform for broad discussion. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.43
…with easier-to-use systems and close collaboration with prospective customers. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. provides manual and automated lift trucks plus accessories through its subsidiaries, Hyster Co. and Yale Lift Truck Technologies. Yale said at ProMat 2023 that it expects autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to be as much as 50% of its business in the next few years. To get to that point, Hyster and Yale are explaining how AMRs and semi-autonomous lift trucks can provide real returns on investment (ROI). Robotics 24/7 asked the companies about their perspectives, and Kyle Smart, sales manager for robotics at Yale Lift Truck Technologies,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.88
…distributors,” noted Mark Koffarnus, director of major accounts at Yale Lift Truck Technologies. To combat these strains on operations and profits, the industry is turning to technology. Advances in industrial automation, automated forklifts, and robotics that once seemed out of reach for small to midsized enterprises (SMEs) are quickly becoming an everyday reality. Solutions that were reserved for the industry’s biggest players are now being implemented in warehouses across the country as companies struggle to attract the skilled labor needed to efficiently run their operations. “Demand is not down,” Koffarnus said. “The [COVID-19] pandemic, if anything, increased demand to a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.28
…Georgetown University Hospital, University of California, San Diego, and Yale NewHaven Health Lawrence + Memorial. Relay Robotics said hospitals use its robots to make deliveries from every department to every corner of their facilities, quickly and efficiently. “RelayRx is effectively another 'transport system' for these hospitals,” it claimed. “Before our Relay robot, we had to stop and make hard decisions,” said Jamie Schmidt, lab supervisor at Hutchinson Health in Hutchinson, Minn. “Do I transport these specimens now to the lab myself, or do I help this patient?” “I have three patients in line, but there are three stat samples. Which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.26
…To accelerate the materials handling market conversion to autonomy, BALYO said it has entered into two global partnerships with Hyster-Yale Group and KION, the parent company of Fenwick-Linde. The company has been listed on EURONEXT since 2017, and its sales revenue reached €21.8 million ($23.1 million U.S.) in 2021. Editor's note: Visit our special coverage page for all the robotics news around ProMat.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.67
…handling market conversion to autonomy, BALYO has entered into two global partnerships with KION (parent company of Fenwick-Linde) and Hyster-Yale Group. The Arcueil, France-based company has subisidiaries in Woburn, Mass., and Singapore and serves clients in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. BALYO claimed in August 2022 that its VNA robots at Singapore Storage and Warehouse Pte. Ltd. were the world's tallest. The company has been listed on EURONEXT since 2017, and its sales revenue reached €21.8 million ($23.12 million U.S.) in 2021.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.26
…chains continues to grow, as does demand for automation. Yale Materials Handling works closely with customers to maximize the value of its automated lift trucks. The global market for autonomous lift trucks could experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) 9.5% and expansion from $2 billion in 2021 to $4.65 billion by 2030, estimated Next Move Strategy Consulting. Similarly, Markets and Markets forecast a CAGR of 12.7% from $3.1 billion in 2021 to $6.4 billion in 2027. Fortune Business Insights predicted an automated forklift CAGR of 8.3%, from $416.7 million in 2018 to $786.9 million by 2026. Yale is part…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.58
…to autonomy, BALYO has entered into global partnerships with Hyster-Yale Group and KION, the parent company of Fenwick-Linde. With the new VNA robots, warehouse and supply chain managers around the globe can now consider autonomous VNA at heights that were earlier not possible. “We are very happy to be partnering with BALYO and Linde for this automation project,” commented Ong Swee Keong, CEO of SSW. “The productivity gains have been impressive, and I am glad that the dedication and hard work put in by everyone in SSW, Linde, BALYO, and our partners for this project have paid off.” “This capability…
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…DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT. The team said it was intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to solve real-world problems. The company is based in Somerville, Mass. RightHand said the Gartner report shares significant findings and recommendations for customers looking to buy autonomous systems. The firm observed a strong and growing interest in robots for use in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing environments. What is Intralogistics Smart Robotics? Gartner describes intralogistics smart robotics (ISRs) as a special class of flexible, intelligent, and often mobile…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.68
…A DARPA challenge-winning from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT founded RightHand Robotics in 2015 to apply computer vision and machine learning to real-world grasping problems. The company said its data-driven, intelligent picking platform provides flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. RightHand said RightPick 3, its latest robotic piece-picking system, “enables retailers to rise up to the new realities of online commerce.” RightPick 3 has a modular, industrialized hardware design and well-defined software application programming interfaces (APIs), said the company. It is designed to be integrator-friendly and complies with international standards, RightHand said. The…