Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.03
April 12, 2021
As ProMat DX begins this week, Vecna Robotics is among the vendors that will be presenting at the virtual event for materials handling. The Waltham, Mass.-based company will be demonstrating its latest mobile robots and orchestration software, which it claims can improve productivity across busy warehouses and factories for both humans and robots. “When you pair humans and technology, you have superhuman warehouse workers,” said Daniel Theobald, founder and CEO of Vecna Robotics. “Where you have dynamic environments, such as medical device manufacturers or big distributors, our systems can unambiguously beat our AGV [automated guided vehicle] competitors.” “Our overall goal…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.13
March 31, 2021
…its new Bolt autonomous mobile robot will debut at ProMat DX on April 12, 2021. The new robot is designed to improve productivity and efficiency in warehouse and manufacturing environments, said the Pittsburgh-based company. Founded in 2012, IAM Robotics has more than 50 employees and said its robotics engineers and supply chain veterans work closely with partners to model, simulate, and configure optimal solutions to support customers worldwide. ABI Research recently named the company as one of the top 10 providers of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Bolt desgined to go faster, longer, and farther IAM Robotics claimed that Bolt's new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.03
March 29, 2021
…operations. The company will be presenting at the virtual ProMat DX 2021 from April 12 to 16, and those who register for free can visit its showcase page. Pittsburgh-based IAM Robotics was founded in 2012, and its team of more than 60 robotics engineers and supply chain veterans builds and supports mobile robots for materials handling applications worldwide. The company will also be presenting at ProMat DX, and registered attendees can visit its showcase page. “We are excited to partner with Tompkins to provide a fully automated sortation/order-fulfillment exit process,” said Tom Galluzzo, founder and CEO of IAM Robotics. “The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.29
March 26, 2021
…this week. The in-person event had been co-located with Promat at McCormick Place in Chicago for several years and would been held in Detroit for the first time. Automate Forward provided an opportunity for integrators and users to learn about robots and automation for a variety of applications. Despite the virtual environment, the show still drew more than 270 exhibitors, including the top robotics suppliers serving the supply chain, logistics and manufacturing industries, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). More than 40 keynote and panel sessions are available for viewing live or on demand. Since floor space wasn’t…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.26
November 23, 2020
…those problems. In this instance, a team went to ProMat, where they met with AMR solution providers, including 6 River Systems. The list was shortly narrowed to one. As Shafer notes, “we had a good engagement with 6 River and went to see sites where they were live. We wanted to interact and work with their AMRs at another site so we could experience how the interface works. Once we did that, we realized there was a fit.” The next step was to generate a business case, and then validate it on site with a pilot using one AMR. Shafer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.01
November 16, 2020
…In 2019, Greenberg met with the Numina Group at ProMat. Together, they toured the show, looked at the available technologies and began the process of designing a new facility. See a detailed inside look at the moving parts of the NorthShore Care distribution center. A new design Design got underway following that meeting at ProMat. Greenberg knew he wanted a solution that could scale to meet the company’s anticipated growth over the next 7 to 10 years—currently, about 40,000 square feet is available to sublet. He also wanted a solution that would allow him to manage current order volumes on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.01
September 11, 2020
…In 2019, Greenberg met with the Numina Group at ProMat. Together, they toured the show, looked at the available technologies and began the process of designing a new facility. A new design Design got underway following that meeting at ProMat. Greenberg knew he wanted a solution that could scale to meet the company’s anticipated growth over the next 7 to 10 years—currently, about 40,000 square feet is available to sublet. He also wanted a solution that would allow him to manage current order volumes on one shift; that would allow adding a second shift at a later date without expanding…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.18
May 22, 2020
…first time for another eight months at the 2015 Promat. Early stage may have been an understatement. While the company had been founded in 2012 by Galluzzo and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center, in the summer of 2014, it was largely a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop in the summer of 2014. I’m not sure if they’d gone live with a website at that point. But, with support from Rochester Drug Cooperative, Galluzzo and his team had built an autonomous mobile piece-picking robot that could go up and down a warehouse aisle and pick items from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.39
March 22, 2020
…All About The Software, a theme I repeated following Promat 2015. It could be that I’m just not that imaginative a guy, or, the proverbial dog stuck on a bone. But at Modex 2020, I was struck once again by just how software is driving our industry today. It was especially true talking to robotics solutions providers. On the first day of the show, for instance, I stopped by 6 River Systems’ booth to learn about their wall to wall solution. Essentially, the autonomous mobile robotic solution had evolved over the last few years from the comparatively simple task of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.51
March 12, 2020
…Softeon’s chief marketing officer. Softeon demonstrated its capabilities at ProMat last April and Vargo’s WES manages execution of robotic putwalls in several retail e-commerce facilities. “The goal is to integrate AMRs and robotic putwalls into the workflow because they’re performing with people,” notes Art Eldred, a client executive with Vargo Solutions. That tug of war may be won by the emergence of edge technology, where analysis and decision-making takes place on the floor where work is being executed. This is also referred to as edge computing. Here’s a look at how the software systems controlling robotics in the warehouse and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.67
January 08, 2020
…MIT and ASU serve up an online Master’s in supply chain management RFID companies innovate to harness growth opportunities ProMat 2019: Nearly 50,000 attendees set 34-year record Pack Expo Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging Expo 2019 break multiple records MHI announces formation of new robotics industry group
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.04
January 01, 2020
…It’s All About The Software following a Modex or Promat show. What I’d noticed is that solution providers were no longer talking about the features and functionality of their hardware at the booths; rather, it was about how their software was transforming the solutions they were bringing to market. That story continues, but, I think the next chapter focuses on how algorithms are transforming our space. The catch, which was pointed out to me by Melonee Wise, the CEO of Fetch Robotics, is that when you develop an algorithm you’re never sure how it’s going to perform over time as…
