Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.44
July 02, 2024
…serve a diverse array of industries, from small-scale logistics operations to large-scale manufacturing processes, spanning 3PL, ecommerce, retail, healthcare, grocery, home furnishing, automotive, advanced manufacturing and more.
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 29.06
June 19, 2024
…can help businesses with staffing shortages for retail and restaurant industries. Its fully-autonomous Ottobots can deliver food and beverages, groceries, and packages for indoor and outdoor applications including curbside delivery, first mile, last mile, airports, malls, casions, and intralogistics across large industrial manufacturing campuses. Ottonomy robots are available on a robotics as a service (RaaS) model. The company said its business customers get access to a quicker, safer, and more economical delivery option as compared to traditional third party delivery services. Above all, Ottonomy said its robots are set to reduce carbon emissions and improve quality of life.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.49
March 15, 2024
…One’s new depalletization feature can address customer needs in grocery fulfillment, including the demand for increased SKU entitlement for shrink-wrapped cartons and trays. The new capabilities help overcome a longstanding technical challenge faced when automating the depalletization process: accurately distinguishing between groups of densely packed, shrink-wrapped food and beverage items. To tackle this issue, Plus One Robotics has developed new vision capabilities and AI to accurately identify different product configurations, streamlining the depalletization process and optimizing picking accuracy. This feature is robot-agnostic and designed to work with any of Plus One’s system integrator partners’ depalletization systems, offering an immediate solution…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.18
March 08, 2024
…since the wearable technology debuted in 2020. SafeLift exosuits have been deployed in a wide range of industries, including grocery, package distribution, third party logistics (3PL), retail, supply chain distribution, and manufacturing. Want to learn more about data management in robots? This article was featured in the September 2024 Robotics 24/7 Special Focus Issue titled “Robots as mobile data platforms.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.51
February 21, 2024
…same pallet, you may have a box from someone's grocery store that used to hold gallons of milk and now it holds the product with tape and an RMA number written on the side of it. And in the same pallet, you may have a product that has absolutely no packing.” A Universal Robots cobot handling boxes. The lack of return uniformity adds another wrinkle to the return logistics process. Should the cobots depalletize these boxes and restack them? Should the cobots put the inventory on a conveyor belt for further sortation? Where does the human-robot interaction occur and how…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.89
February 16, 2024
…scalable, and sustainable,” said Adam Gurga, national manager of grocery and retail partnerships for Cimcorp. The MODEX 2024 trade show will be held March 11-14 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Modular systems support supply-chain sustainability Cimcorp, which provides fresh food and tire handling robots, said it will showcase systems designed to optimize fresh and perishable food distribution for grocery retailers, bakeries, and dairies. The company said its systems modernize order fulfillment, support supply chain sustainability, and minimize lead times to maximize freshness for perishable foods. Offering modular systems that can be retrofitted into existing distribution centers,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.97
February 06, 2024
…unique warehouse fulfilment technology in a sector outside of grocery retail for the first time, and provide the AI-powered software applications necessary to operate that technology long term. McKesson Canada is a leading diversified healthcare provider in Canada and is the largest pharmaceutical distributor in the country. OIA on display at Manifest At Manifest 2024 in Las Vegas, the organization had its Ocado Storage and Retrieval (OSRS) system and battery swap robot arm on display. The technology will be utilized at McKesson to help pick healthcare related items in a similar fashion to Ocado’s long-standing grocery retrieval operation. “Today represents…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.57
January 31, 2024
…Cimcorp’s end-to-end intralogistics systems incorporate modular gantry pickers, AGVs, and palletizers, according to its website. The company said its grocery retail distribution systems provide fast and efficient deliveries of fresh produce without picking errors or delays, even in times of increasing labor challenges. Cimcorp said its order picking system will take care of repetitive lifting of heavy objects, leading to a safer work environment for REWE’s employees.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.44
January 30, 2024
…receiving for Brightpick Autopicker robots in ecommerce, pharmaceuticals, and e-grocery,” said Jan Zizka, CEO and co-founder of Brightpick. “The recent wins with The Feed and Dr. Max demonstrate the trust that major companies in the US and EU have for our robots and our company.” The Feed hopes Autopicker will expedite orders The Feed, based near Denver, Colorado, is an ecommerce store for athletes. The company offers a wide array of sports nutrition and supplements, as well as gear, to its customers. It is currently installing 48 Brightpick Autopickers in its warehouse for picking, kitting (creating ready-to-ship orders) and buffering…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
October 29, 2023
…Who hasn't walked to the front of their local grocery or big-box store recently and been confronted with the option to do self-checkout? Retail has experienced some major forms of automation over the past several years, but that doesn't necessarily mean all workers will be shown the door. Make no mistake, the future of retail careers will be vastly different than what we see today. What's happening with retail automation? The retail industry, among others, has experienced many labor-related challenges over the past several years. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that frontline retail workers are expected…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.91
September 22, 2023
…DHL Express Estonia parcel deliveries. More recently, Clevon has delivered parcels with with PostNet in Texas, as well as groceries with Colruyt Group in Belgium and IKI stores in Lithuania. The company said its partners such as grocery retailers, food businesses, and logistics providers are seeking safe, reliable, customizable, and sustainable services.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.32
September 21, 2023
…and CEO of Brightpick, in a release. “E-commerce and e-grocery companies seem to quickly understand the operational enhancements that a fleet of Brightpick Autopicker robots can provide,” he said. “Our strongest traction is in grocery and pharmaceuticals, probably because our robots excel at picking those items and can pick from ambient and chilled zones.” Brightpick automates fulfillment processes Erlanger, Ky.-based Brightpick offers robots using artificial intelligence to automate fulfillment processes including order picking, consolidation, dispatch, and stock replenishment. It claimed that its systems take weeks to deploy and enable warehouses to reallocate staffers dedicated to picking by 95% and to…
