Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
November 24, 2021
…the pandemic, there's more demand for remote work, such as teleoperating forklifts. We'll also start to see warehouses for groceries.” “A lot of people want to create the warehouse of the future or the lights-out warehouse,” said Moore. “But we still have a capacity crunch on warehouse space, location, and utilization that we'll be watching.” “Our midsize and enterprise customers are trying to move as quickly as possible,” Elazary said. “With peak season, we'll see a lot more automation for fulfillment and more customers demanding robots that are easy, safe, and fun to work with.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.42
November 23, 2021
While your groceries probably won't come by drone for this Thanksgiving, delivery operations are expanding. DroneUp LLC and Walmart Inc. today announced today their first multi-site commercial drone delivery operations. The three locations, which will be located at Walmart stores in Northwest Arkansas, will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days per week, to deliver items to eligible Walmart customers by air in as little as 30 minutes. “When we invested in DroneUp earlier this year, we envisioned a drone delivery operation that could be quickly executed and replicated across multiple stores,” said Tom Ward, senior vice president…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.95
November 19, 2021
…state. The company began operating in September 2020, delivering groceries, household items, and restaurant orders to select customers in Fayetteville, N.C. Since then, it has expanded drone deliveries to the town of Raeford, N.C. Since February 2021, Flytrex said the volume of its orders across its North Carolina operations has increased more than tenfold, with thousands of deliveries to date. It claimed that it can deliver orders within five minutes in a two-and-a-half mile radius. Most recently, the startup launched its third drone-delivery station in North Carolina. It has been delivering food orders from restaurants and chains at the Holly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.18
November 17, 2021
…to manufacture compostable packaging for anything from food and groceries to cosmetics and consumer goods. Containers are molded from plant material by Zume’s molded-fiber cells (MFCs) integrated with two ABB IRB 6700 robots. Each cell can process up to 2 tons of agriculture material every day, creating 80,000 pieces of sustainable packaging. ABB Robotics plans to integrate and install more than 1,000 MFCs, including up to 2,000 robots, at Zume customer sites worldwide over the next five years. With more than 130 years of experience, ABB said it will use its program management capabilities and the automation experts in its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.84
November 15, 2021
…automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that can help grocery chains, retailers, and distribution centers fulfill orders on demand. The Boston-based company said its system includes rapid robotic retrieval of online orders. Mitsubishi offers support to partners like Urbx Urbx said it partnered with Mitsubishi Electric Automation because of its robotics system architecture. Vernon Hills, Mich.-based Mitsubishi Electric is a U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Its portfolio includes robots, programmable automation controllers (PAC), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and human machine interfaces (HMI). The company also provides variable frequency drives (VFD), servo amplifiers and motors, control software, computerized numerical…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
November 03, 2021
…sortation and deliver competitive advantages for enterprises serving today's connected consumers. Multiple industries use its systems, including e-commerce, same-day grocery, package handling, and retail. With Intelligent Enterprise Robotics (IER), customers can support order fulfillment across their entire supply chains, said Berkshire Grey. The company's services include installation, testing, and commissioning, as well as continued support using cloud-based AI for predictive maintenance, operations management, analytics, and integration. Berkshire Grey added that its automated systems are modular, flexible, and available via a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) implementation model.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.97
November 03, 2021
…launched its partnership with Nuro in 2018 to explore grocery delivery through autonomous vehicles,” said Yael Cosset, senior vice president and chief information officer at Kroger. “Since then, Kroger and Nuro completed thousands of deliveries to our customers—driving innovation that supports our expanding seamless ecosystem by creating consistent and rewarding customer experiences with scalable, sustainable, and profitable solutions.” Nuro has also signed a five-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud to support the scale and capacity required to run self-driving simulation workloads, machine learning to improve model accuracy, and storage to manage important data from the vehicles. The partners said they…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.15
November 02, 2021
…a moment's notice to meet the needs of nearby grocery stores that, for instance, experience a spike in demand for specific seasonal or even out-of-season produce. The company said the mobile robot makes the massive scale of its hydroponic facilities possible. Designed to be hygienic, durable, and sleek, Grover uses a differential drive system, multiple lidar sensors, and upward- and forward-facing cameras, said Iron Ox. It is equipped with a lift system to autonomously move 1,000-lb., 6-by-6-foot modules of hydroponically fed plants throughout the greenhouse. Modules are regularly transported by Grover to a scanning booth for inspection and based on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.00
October 26, 2021
…billion. The New York-based company runs micro-fulfillment operations for grocery and general merchandise retailers in New York, Washington D.C., and Tel Aviv. “It has never been so complex and challenging for retailers to fulfill and deliver online orders,” stated Fabric. “With these funds, Fabric has emerged as a new kind of unicorn — a 'robocorn' uniquely positioned to solve these challenges in the retail space.” Founded in 2015, the company said that its proprietary micro-fulfillment technology stack including robots and software is designed from the ground up to make on-demand fulfillment profitable and scalable for all retailers. Fabric has offices…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.85
October 26, 2021
…Springs is the third location in North Carolina in which Flytrex operates. Since September 2020, Flytrex has been delivering groceries, household items, and restaurant orders to select customers in Fayetteville. It has since expanded that service to the neighboring town of Raeford. In March, Flytrex received $9.3 million in venture funding. In April 2021, the FAA approved the expansion of the Fayetteville service, making it among the largest-scale backyard drone deliveries of goods on record. Since February 2021, the volume of Flytrex orders across its North Carolina operations has increased more than tenfold, with thousands of deliveries to date, said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.65
October 25, 2021
…Starship Technologies has developed mobile robots to deliver food, groceries, and packages locally in minutes. They have traveled millions of miles and recently completed over 2 million autonomous deliveries around the world, said the San Francisco-based company. The robots drive autonomously but are monitored by humans who can take control at any time. Starship's zero-emission robots use a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sensors to travel on sidewalks and navigate around obstacles. Computer vision-based navigation helps the robots to map their environment to the nearest inch. Starship said its robots can cross streets, climb curbs, travel day and…
Found in Robotics White Papers & Archives, with a score of 19.15
October 22, 2021
…companies of various sizes. In addition, we examine the difference between mico-fulfillment and hyperlocal fulfillment, two buzzworthy phrases in groceries and e-commerce, but not limited to those sectors. Here are just some of the topics in this free download: Mobile Robot Adoption by Warehouses Will Surge to the Half-Million Mark How to Get to Hyperlocal Fulfillment, Fast 3 Ways in Which Robots Are Helping the Supply Chain Industry Robots Deliver in the Last Mile, Giving Retailers and Patrons More Options How Can Robots Improve Picking Operations in Warehouses? Think of Robots as a Supply Chain Asset Warehouses Not Yet Taking…
