Topic: Trends

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Automate 2025 show planner: Discover robots, components, and software in Detroit

April 28, 2025 · A3 is hosting Automate 2025, a trade show for robot developers, components and software providers, integrators, and end users to learn about the latest industry innovations.

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International Federation of Robotics report highlights top 5 global robotics trends of 2025

January 24, 2025 · The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) reported on the top five global robotics trends of 2025, identifying topics including AI, humanoids and sustainability.

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Robot trends 2024: Humanoids, AI pique interest across robotics industries

December 18, 2024 · Robot trends in 2024 focused heavily on humanoids, artificial intelligence (AI), collaborative robots (cobots) and robotic deployments across industries.

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A3 Humanoid Robot Forum to be held in October

July 2, 2024 · A3’s Humanoid Robot Forum, to be held in October in conjunction with its AMR and Logistics Conference, will include speakers from Agility, Apptronic, HaptX, and NEURA Robotics.

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Interact Analysis valued 2023 warehouse software market at $7.2 billion

July 1, 2024 · Recent research by Interact Analysis predicts a 19.5% CAGR between 2023 and 2030 for warehouse automation software including WMS, WCS, and WES, and competition to provide WES.

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ABB Predicts Top U.S. Robotics Trends

May 21, 2023 · ABB's U.S. Robotics’ chief shares the trends he is seeing in the space in 2023.

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IFR Report Finds Automotive Industry Continues to Be Robotics Industry’s Biggest Customer

March 24, 2023 · The International Federation of Robotics shared details of how the automotive industry continues to invest heavily in robotics.

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Top 5 Robotics Trends for 2022, According to the International Federation of Robotics

February 19, 2022 · As the number of industrial robots in operation has increased from 2015, the International Federation of Robotics says it expects certain trends to continue, including greater ease of use.

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Robotics Leaders Look Back at 2021 Challenges and Accomplishments

December 22, 2021 · From market consolidation to interoperability efforts, leading robotics users, associations, and top suppliers weigh in on the top commercial robotics trends of 2021.

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Amazon’s Last-Mile MIT CTL Routing Research Challenge

February 22, 2021 · The primary goal of the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is to encourage participants to develop innovative approaches leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and other non-conventional methods to produce solutions to the route sequencing problem.

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Supply Chain Leaders Learn From Today’s Ecommerce Challenges to Provide Future Innovation and Growth

February 19, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated ecommerce demands to levels that weren't expected until 2025, so how can supply chain leaders get up to speed, and fast?

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Labor Management Systems Solutions Increasingly Important, Even With the Move to More Automation

February 17, 2021 · Labor management system solutions are different today than those a decade ago, they integrate with more systems, have mobile user interfaces, and use advanced analytics, they are increasingly important with the move to more automation.

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How Efficient Dock Scheduling and Forecasting Will Maximize Investments in Demand Sensing

January 5, 2021 · Demand sensing is analytics-based, real-time forecasting, but like all forecasting capabilities, it is only as valuable as the ability to change operations and respond to the issues at hand.

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The Future of Freight: Einride Unveils New Driverless Vehicles for Autonomous Freight Hauling

October 9, 2020 · Einride, the Swedish autonomous trucking startup, unveiled a new vehicle type that the company hopes to have on the road delivering freight starting in 2021.

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Amazon’s Drone Delivery Hits Milestone with Federal Aviation Administration Clearance

August 31, 2020 · Retail behemoth Amazon.com took a big leap toward delivering goods from the sky by becoming one of only a handful of companies certified by the U.S. government to operate as a drone airline.

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The 2020 Top 10 Materials Handling System Suppliers

August 27, 2020 · Although the year promises to paint a different picture, the industry continued to build upon record growth in 2019.

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Warehouse Execution Systems to Encompass Wide-Ranging Distribution Center Solutions

August 21, 2020 · Warehouse Execution Systems providers say the software orchestrates the overall flow of work across all distribution center resources and is increasingly employing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Warehouse Picking During the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Fetch Robotics Cart

August 10, 2020 · These are the emerging technologies that can help workers, customers practice social distancing more successfully intelligent automation, IoT and 5G may have come on the scene at precisely the right time.

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UPS Ecommerce Fulfillment Strategy for Creating the Supply Chain Warehouse of the Future

July 22, 2020 · UPS, one of the world's largest parcel delivery services, is redesigning its fulfillment processes to meet new challenges, inside and outside the warehouse.

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