Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.20
January 13, 2023
…workforce, affecting about 240 people. Some other robotics players that have announced layoffs in the past six months include Amazon Robotics, Pudu Robotics, Shopify (parent of 6 River Systems), Nuro Inc., and Starship Technologies.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.19
September 03, 2024
…raised to date. It also hired CTO Andrew Hoffman, who was a founding engineer at Kiva Systems - now Amazon Robotics - and CANVAS Technology. The company was recognized in the CB Insights AI 100, received multiple awards with supply chain trade outlets, and spoke at Manifest, Shoptalk, GS1 Connect, and other industry conferences.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.10
July 20, 2023
…the technical, cost, and time challenges associated with the development of advanced robotic applications. Many organizations, including NASA, Google, Amazon, and Samsung, have partnered with PickNik, said the company. Boulder, Colo.-based PickNik also supports and collaborates with the worldwide open-source robotics movement and is the lead developer of MoveIt and MoveIt Studio.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.06
June 19, 2019
…run on university-owned clusters or on clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. MATLAB Parallel Server offers access to cluster resources through the familiar MATLAB environment, provides the ability to run on multiple machines without algorithm changes, and helps to access cloud clusters or local high-performance computing (HPC) resources. Expanded access also offers flexibility in working with academic researchers, students, and faculty from other institutions by offering them access to MATLAB and Simulink. Now these academicians can access MATLAB on authorized campus machines and university HPC clusters for their non-commercial work. This helps to support collaborative research projects…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.00
February 19, 2020
…Finazzo, FANUC America Corporation; ● Secretary - Jon Battles, Amazon.com; and ● RIA President - Jeff Burnstein “I’m honored to accept this role with a talented team of industry professionals as we continue to guide and support the robotics industry in this time of rapid growth,” said Wicks. “Robotics are playing an ever-increasing role in our global economy and adoption rates are climbing steadily. The RIA is a leader in driving robotic innovation, growth and safety throughout our industry.” The remaining board members for 2020 include Carl Doeksen, 3M; Steve Kruzel, Yaskawa America, Inc.; Mark Lewandowski, Procter & Gamble; Bob…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.81
February 08, 2017
…the Americas for Intelligrated, Dematic and Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics) and has extensive experience in logistics software consulting and sales. He has developed innovative hardware and software systems, sold complex supply chain solutions, cultivated long-term client relationships and managed multi-national strategic sales teams. “This new position underscores our laser focus on rapidly growing our automated storage and retrieval system business,” said Brian Urban, SencopWhite CEO. I am confident Chis will leverage his experience in logistics software consulting and sales to drive exceptional growth for White Systems.” Initially, Lingamfelter will focus on growing White Systems’ industrial storage and retrieval hardware…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.76
January 11, 2022
…2014, Verity said its team includes Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics) founders and ETH Zürich engineers, systems specialists, and data scientists. It also includes professionals representing more than 20 nationalities, a variety of advanced degrees, and experience at some of today’s most innovative companies. The company said they have designed, built, and deployed “the world’s first fully automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying drones.” Verity promises to boost warehouse sustainability Verity said its system uses self-flying drone technology to automates inventory checks in large warehouses and distribution centers. “By enabling zero-error warehouses, the system helps reduce CO2 emissions—especially for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.66
February 06, 2023
…including big names such as Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, OpenCart, Amazon and eBay. It added that it provides “a hybrid picking solution that allows humans and machines to co-deliver a world-class efficiency manual picking operation.” These are the robots being used in the new facility. Source: Geek+ Geek+ robots are picking 3.6 million units per month at facility Geek+ develops robotic systems designed for warehouse use. The autonomous mobile robot maker is based out of Beijing. Geek+ said two of its systems are being used at the facility and are processing 3.6 million orders per month. The facility is using the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.59
May 11, 2020
…hyperscale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM; cloud-based collaboration and application providers; telecom operators providing cloud services; cloud connectivity partners; and colocation data centers. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several examples of processes that can be digitized and virtualized,” Bicknell continues. “Google has told job seekers it will conduct all interviews virtually via Google Hangouts for the foreseeable future. Corporate video conferencing is enabling both legal and medical case discussions, while telemedicine is being used to provide COVID-19 remote diagnosis and treatment. “The necessary wider move to cloud will now pose questions…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.59
January 31, 2023
…logistics trade show this week, including representatives from Walmart, Amazon, IKEA, and Target. Some 250 industry experts will also share their insights during panel discussions and talks. Tomorrow at 10:20 a.m. PT, Addverb Americas CEO Mark Messina will speak as part of “The Automated Micro Fulfillment & Autonomous Routing” panel. Other experts on the panel will include executives from Davinci Micro, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and Wise Systems. The session will “discuss trends in autonomous micro-fulfillment and autonomous routing,” Addverb said. Addverb invests in U.S. market Addverb has spent the past year expanding its presence in the U.S. after Reliance Retail…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
May 01, 2016
…it has been off the market since 2012, when Amazon acquired the company. Although Amazon is still supporting existing installations like the one at Quiet Logistics, that support will end at some point in the future. For that reason, if you travel a mile down the road, you can see necessity—and invention—on display at a 200,000-square-foot facility operated by Quiet. There, in an area reserved for one customer, a handful of small, mobile robots carry totes representing one single- or multi-line order from a packing station to picking locations. Once there, lights on the base of the robots blink to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.52
February 04, 2020
…orders faster than ever has an end game—compete with Amazon. “It is now in consumer’s minds that two-hour order delivery is not out of the ordinary, thanks to Amazon,” says Marc Wulfraat, founder and president of MWPVL International. “If you try to fight their strategy, you will lose,” he warns. Micro-fulfillment, filling e-orders in the back of existing retail space, is expected to be a $1 billion segment of the materials handling industry less than 24 months from now. Once again, Target is an example of a retailer having success here. In its latest quarter reporting, e-commerce sales increased more…
