Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.06
July 19, 2023
…concurrently replaces the void that it created with more inventory. Bearing the burden of warehouse workers Picking robots, as well as collaborative robots, not only help make fulfillment centers more efficient, but they also take the load off warehouse workers so they may attend to more important tasks and overarching objectives. Workers are less burdened with mundane tasks that can now be performed by fetch robots. Employees can keep tabs on the AMRs and event vector their movement. When orders come in, the AMRs travel the distance and greatly expedite the flow of the order from requisition to shipment. AMRs…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.03
July 17, 2023
…surveillance. Several startups are working to apply drones to inventory management. Verity AG last week announced that it has raised an additional $11 million in its Series B funding round. The company said in a release that it plans to use the capital “to scale the delivery of zero-error warehouses and predictable value across a supply chain industry that is increasingly turning to technology to improve crucial operational impediments—labor shortages, lost productivity, inventory errors, and waste.” Verity's founders include Raffaello D’Andrea, who co-founded warehouse automation company Kiva Systems, which was acquired by Amazon in 2012. The Zurich, Switzerland-based company said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.10
July 16, 2023
…can help connect robots with business systems, such as inventory databases, so a robot knows where an item is located. Simulation of cobots, or robots working with humans, promises to reduce injuries and make jobs easier, enabling more efficient delivery of all kinds of products. And with packages arriving incredibly fast in homes everywhere, what’s not to like? You can learn more on NVIDIA's site about Isaac Sim, Jetson Orin, Omniverse Enterprise, and Metropolis, as well as from this Deep Learning Institute course: “Introduction to Robotic Simulations in Isaac Sim.” About the author Gerard Andrews is a senior product marketing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.96
July 13, 2023
…accurate data, visibility into operations, and real-time insights into inventory, the company said. Tally is “the world's first fully autonomous in-store product auditing solution,” according to Simbe. It traverses aisles to generate exact product location data and identify out-of-stock, misplaced, or mispriced products at more than 99% accuracy, it said. Thanks to its sensor suite, the mobile robot can operate safely alongside shoppers and employees and doesn't require infrastructure changes to stores, said Simbe. It added that Tally is designed to be easy to use and to fit into retail environments. Tally can scan entire stores up to three times…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.33
July 13, 2023
…shelves. How interoperable are your systems with other robots, inventory software, and warehouse management systems (WMS)? Guan: With sensor fusion, not only can our AMRs sense other robots or humans, but the neural network can also understand doors. If an AMR sees a lift truck, it knows when to stop. Our robot-agnostic fleet manager integrates with WMS and TMS [transportation management systems] if customers have one, and they help us to dispatch orders of higher or lower priority. Our fleet manager collaborates with human pickers and works like Uber—it tells pickers where to go next through PDAs [personal digital assistants].…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.48
June 28, 2023
…Less need for floor space OSARO said it provides piece-picking robots for e-commerce, where key challenges include high SKU inventories, complex packaging, and fragile items. The San Francisco-based company said its SightWorks machine learning technology provides the foundation for all its products. “In the rapidly evolving world of logistics technology, OSARO offers smarter automation, low-risk business plans, and its signature Hypercare support from concept exploration to onsite installation,” said the company. It added that its intelligent systems enable goods-to-robot (G2R) use cases, which promise significant increases in warehouse productivity.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.70
June 26, 2023
…how do they get the work done? Good old-fashioned inventory management is both part of the challenge and central to the solution to integration of those robots. “You want there to be enough SKUs distributed across various buffers,” said Grant Beringer, vice president of integrated systems at Swisslog. “And you don’t want to have too many items of each SKU or too few, limiting flexibility.” None of this is a hypothetical or a one-off. Beringer and others said they have been asked more than once lately to get different types of robots to be interoperable. As it turns out, this…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.37
June 22, 2023
…Mitchell noted that automation has evolved from workflows and inventory to trying to augment an operation's most skilled workers. Although ChatGPT is getting a lot of hype, generative AI could be used to design more efficient hardware, Liu added. Improving connections between the office and the field for quality control is another worthy goal, said Leung. “After 20 years, we're still looking for computers that can read 2D floor plans,” she said. “We're still looking for robots that can serve big pain points, and we want to see more startups partner with industry and groups like MassRobotics. Get feedback on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.89
June 16, 2023
…in France. This year's SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards attracted more than 1,400 nominations from over 15 countries. The categories included inventory management, supply chain visibility, transportation management, materials handling, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and more. Part of the Tech Breakthrough organization, SupplyTech Breakthrough is an independent market intelligence organization. It evaluates and recognizes innovative and leading technology companies, products, and services in the supply chain and logistics industry around the world. SupplyTech Breakthrough also named OTTO Motors' OTTO Lifter autonomous fork truck as the “Material Handling Solution of the Year” and ISEE as “Autonomous Truck of the Year.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.84
June 08, 2023
…through its international fulfillment network and ability to track inventory and operational processes. The Istanbul-based company claimed that it is Turkey's “fastest growing tech-enabled fulfillment company,” with warehouses in Ankara, Istanbul, Gebze, and Dilovasi in Turkey, as well as near London and Chicago. OPLOG said it has served global brands including Sony, Herbalife, and Tupperware. With the latest €11 milion ($11.85 million U.S.) investment from ESAS Private Equity, the company added that it employs over 350 staffers, including 100 engineers and developers. OPLOG offers fulfillment technology OPLOG said it “is on a mission to becoming the preferred partner for growing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.85
June 07, 2023
…line sells more, how I scale production and manage inventory?” Scenario planning is currently done with old software and little automated hardware, but supply chain leaders want to do more of this. They need actionable data to make their supply chains more resilient. Another thing we've heard in the Link ecosystem is that data is siloed—how can we connect it? Nobody has the appetite to build a data-dumping project, and data fragmentation is a big problem. It can only be solved with a clear use case, visibility into inventory, and then a layer above that to be able to do…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.45
June 02, 2023
…facilities, every step in fulfilling customer orders, from receiving inventory to shipping products, must be executed flawlessly and at high speed to meet customer expectations. Denver-based Prime Robotics claimed that it is a global provider of “intelligent, end-to-end automation” and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) the warehouse, distribution, e-commerce, and materials handling markets. The company said its suite of robotics hardware and software is designed and proven “to optimize the fulfillment ecosystem—providing greater efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and cost savings.” By automating tasks such as sorting, picking, packing, and shipping, facilities can significantly reduce the time and labor required to fulfill orders…
