Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.06
November 20, 2024
…unloaded over 10 million pounds of merchandise from import containers and domestic floor-loaded trailers for customers that distribute footwear, apparel, power tools, toys, kitchenware, packaging materials, small appliances and other general merchandise. Going forward, the product roadmap is expanding to service parcel-type freight.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.80
September 18, 2024
…providing a picking option for various industries such as apparel, retail, e-commerce, pharmaceutical, agricultural and spare parts. “Pickommerce is disrupting the logistics industry by delivering advanced solutions that streamline automation operations, significantly enhancing their overall efficiency,” said Yoni Heilbronn, managing partner at IL Ventures. “In an industry where manual picking still overwhelmingly dominates the process, this solution is poised to redefine standards and drive a new era that's more agile, responsive and cost-effective. Booming demand for Pickommerce’s technology shows that the company’s solutions cater to an urgent and essential market need.” PickoBot utilizes an advanced computer vision system powered by…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.81
August 12, 2024
…Henderson Sewing Machine Company Inc. Project Team: HanesBrands Inc., Apparel Robotics, Southwest Research Institute, Interface Technologies, and MassRobotics Description: The apparel industry is a manufacturing sector that is ripe for automation and a keen strategic focus for ARM. The Institute has funded several robotics projects centered on apparel manufacturing with each building on prior outputs and lessons learned. This project will design, develop, and test a robotic system that automates six operations involved in T-shirt manufacturing to demonstrate sewn garment automation feasibility in a manufacturing environment. Demonstration of rapid TPC welding at scale Principal investigator: RTX Technology Research Center Project…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.97
June 27, 2024
…in late 2023 at GXO’s warehouse for global women’s apparel retail brand SPANX outside Atlanta, Ga. “We’re building on the success of last year’s groundbreaking pilot with Agility by deploying fully operational Digit humanoids into a live warehouse environment,” said Adrian Stoch, GXO Chief Automation Officer. “Our R&D approach is to partner with developers all over the world to help them build and validate practical use cases that improve the working environment for our employees while optimizing operations for our customers. Agility shares this philosophy, and Digit is the perfect addition to work alongside our people in our fulfillment center.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.16
May 29, 2024
S&S Activewear (S&S), a wholesale apparel company, announced the expansion of its partnership with Körber Business Area Supply Chain and deployment of Geekplus robotics offerings at three warehouse sites across the Americas. The collaboration enables S&S to optimize on-site staff, order quality and delivery efficiencies to meet the surging demands of a rapidly evolving market, according to the companies. Integration has improved S&S performance “Innovation is a core tenet of S&S’s decades-long history in the wholesale apparel industry,” said Brian Beale, CTO for S&S. “Advancing our warehouse operations with Körber and Geekplus’s robotics and automation expertise has been a natural…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.75
April 29, 2024
…across the two different levels with 50,000 product locations. Apparel and accessories are housed on the mezzanine; footwear on the ground floor. Conveyor transports received cartons to designated induction stations on each level which direct putaway into empty shelf positions. As directed by the facility’s warehouse management software (WMS), a fleet of 142 AMRs continuously delivers mobile shelves to associates at workstations equipped with light directed picking modules on both floors. Conveyors also transport completed picks from the mezzanine down to the ground floor for order consolidation as needed. Chaplin: “The retailer gained three main benefits from this project. First,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.04
March 15, 2024
…the ideal opportunity to showcase the real-world success leading apparel company Cutter & Buck has had in North America with FulFillX,” Hayes added. The speed and density of the AutoStore robotic cube offering and the FulfillX focused ‘pick to pack’ product was ideal for Cutter & Buck’s existing fulfillment center near Seattle. “We are delighted to work in partnership with Kardex on its innovative FulfillX warehouse execution system,” said Matt Savoie, partner sales manager at AutoStore. “AutoStore solutions are built for the future and Kardex has successfully pushed the boundaries of what cube storage can achieve to deliver the fastest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
February 14, 2024
…on the systems. One of our customers is in apparel, so the returns that they see are typically unpackaged goods. You open up the mailer in which the item comes, and then you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. This particular retailer had many jeans, so typical automation systems that do both sortation and picking couldn't handle the unbagged jeans, whereas our robotic picking systems could. That was because of the nature of presentation of the goods in the returns through a reverse logistics process. In the case of those jeans, we can both fulfill them and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.97
February 12, 2024
…academics. The inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator cohort included ten startups: Apparel Robotics, brd BOT, Gopher Motion, Hominid X, Mapless AI, Oligo, Robotics 88, rStream, SIMPL Automation, and Yard Robotics. During the course of the program, startups will be provided a curriculum of business topics spanning customer discovery, value proposition discovery, manufacturing, fundraising tactics, and team management. “Technical founders can often jump to product-building mode before intimately understanding their end user and customer,” said Marita McGinn, director of the MassRobotics Accelerator. “During this program, our startups will each complete at least 25 customer discovery interviews in an effort to hone in on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.85
January 30, 2024
…the Autopicker Brightpick Autopicker can also reliably pick ambient and chilled groceries, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, medical devices, polybagged apparel and more. The Brightpick solution takes weeks to deploy and enables companies to reduce their picking labor and picking costs significantly, according to the company.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.98
November 27, 2023
…Movu eligo allows customers, particularly those involved in pharmaceuticals, apparel, e-commerce, manufacturing and kitting, to realize the benefits of reliable robotic piece-picking without worrying about end-to-end integration. “Movu eligo is a data-driven, intelligent piece picking platform … that automates conventional manual operations and results in a lower cost per pick,” said Stefan Pieters, CEO of Movu Robotics. “Integrated seamlessly as a work station for the Movu escala bin storage system, eligo offers a flexible and scalable automation solution for predictable and accurate order fulfilment, adding value for warehouses pursuing improvements in efficiency, productivity, and customer service levels.” Watch this video…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.24
October 24, 2023
…technology officer for fulfillment and logistics at Boozt, an apparel retailer and prominent AutoStore customer. “We are excited about the R5 Pro, the latest addition to the AutoStore R5 series, which will bring tangible benefits to customers with large AutoStore systems that require speed,” he said. “Being able to reduce charging time during multi-shift operations offers great potential for improved productivity.” “The projected higher productivity per robot means we would need significantly fewer robots and chargers to achieve our required throughput – and also enable us to fit more SKUs within our existing Grid,” Sjölin said. “But in the end,…
