Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.53
May 17, 2018
…customer’s viewpoint.” In March of this year, we featured DHL Supply Chain’s initiative to bring new technologies into its e-commerce fulfillment operations. Along with robots from Locus Robotics and 6 River Systems, DHL was also using smart glasses and augmented reality from Vuzix for a pick-to-cart application. According to Lance Anderson, the vice president of sales and marketing at Vuzix and a veteran of traditional solution providers, one of the challenges to smart glass technology is that it is an evolving technology. “The materials handling industry can be antiquated—once you get a solution work, you don’t want to touch it,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.34
April 17, 2018
…this week by global express and logistics services provider DHL and technology powerhouse IBM takes an in-depth look into the impact of AI within logistics. The report, entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Logistics: A collaborative report by DHL and IBM on implications and use cases for the logistics industry,” examines different ways in which AI can be used for augmenting logistics operations, especially now at a time when leveraging AI is more accessible and affordable than it has been in the past. “Everything can be enhanced through modern technology, and I think AI is at the beginning of really big usefulness,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
April 09, 2018
…tipping point. The piece focused on how 3PLs like DHL, GEODIS and Quiet Logistics are deploying mobile collaborative robots in their e-commerce fulfillment operations. One of the things that struck me is that while the implementations we’re seeing are small, it feels as if the market for mobile collaborative robotics is at a tipping point in materials handling, and it feels as if the adoption rate, poised to become in the next three to five years just another tool in the tool kit. In the words of Stephen Stills, there’s something happening here. Last week, as I was getting ready…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.50
March 12, 2018
…In the March issue of Modern, we are featuring DHL Supply Chain’s strategy for mobile robots in order fulfillment purposes, including its use of Locus. In fairness, you could argue that it’s probably been ten years since Kiva first exhibited at one of our trade events. How is this different? I think it’s different in two important ways. The first is the over-night emergence of one start-up after another, thanks to funding that is pouring in from an investment community that previously ignored our space. The second is a convergence of factors outside of the four walls of the DC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
March 01, 2018
…Autonomous mobile robots on the warehouse floor Wärtsilä and DHL have completed a successful pilot where the companies tested Fetch Robotics to investigate possibilities to utilize the latest technology innovations in the daily operations of the warehouse. The robots are designed to work alongside employees, and to relieve them from physically strenuous tasks. At Rochester Drug, a mobile piece-picking robot named Adam roams aisles of inventory, selecting items directly from shelves without human intervention. Finally, at Whirlpool, 54 robotic tuggers, each with a stereo camera-based navigation system from Seegrid, deliver washing machine parts to 24 locations on assembly and sub-assembly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
January 25, 2018
…robots in its warehouses. Earlier this year in Tennessee, DHL began testing robots to assist its pickers in order fulfillment. Rather than pushing a bin or cart, the robots work alongside workers, helping them pick out medical devices that need to be shipped quickly. Third-party logistics provider Quiet Logistics Inc., which fulfills online orders for retailers like Bonobos and Zara, uses the same type of mobile robots in one of its warehouses to support its employees. Robot + Human Collaboration = Cobot Unlike the doomsday narrative of robots taking over the workplace, savvy companies are creating synergistic scenarios where robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.11
December 21, 2017
…several autonomous delivery vehicles in 2018, including our own DHL StreetScooter – thanks to our cooperation with AI computing company NVIDIA and ZF, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers. And while most are still talking about Tesla’s splashy announcement, we’re taking action. Our DHL Supply division has just placed an order for ten Tesla Electric Class 8 Semi Trucks, making it one of the first third-party logistics (3PL) companies to do so. We’ll begin testing them in the U.S. once available in 2019. A Much-Needed Co-Pilot Both companies and drivers will benefit from the technology. For starters, we think…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.19
October 11, 2017
…The alliance includes warehouse facilities operated by 3PL partners DHL, Kenco and NFI, backed by JDA software technology, and outfitted with Tompkins Robotics automation. “The Tompkins Robotics systems are designed specifically to do each picking, unit and parcel sortation of apparel and footwear at a return on investment that’s twice as high as traditional shipping sorters,” Tompkins explains. The robots act similarly to a tilt tray sorter, yet navigate independently to any divert or induction station along the shortest path in a minimal amount of floor space. Because of the overarching software, inventory from multiple clients with a broad range…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.95
September 18, 2017
…Adrian Kumar, a vice president of solutions design for DHL, and one of his colleagues on DHL’s work with NextGen Supply Chain technologies, including mobile robots and Google Glass. They seem disparate, but there’s a common thread between the three. If you haven’t heard Harry speak at a conference, he is an apostle for American manufacturing in the best possible way. Founded about 6 years ago, the Reshoring Initiative says that it “is the leading voice in making the case to companies that it is often in their interest to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States or keep…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
April 10, 2017
…pie, rather than enlarging it as much as possible and then redistributing, is the right way forward.” Related Article: DHL Supply Chain to Use Collaborative Robots for Innovative Order Fulfillment Trial Download the Paper America’s Advanced Industries: What They Are, Where They Are, and Why They Matter
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.51
April 06, 2017
DHL Supply Chain, an Americas' leader in contract logistics and part of Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced that it will begin a pilot test using a collaborative, autonomous robotics solution within the life sciences sector at a facility in Tennessee in the next two months. The robots, called LocusBots from Locus Robotics, are being tested as a picker companion for piece picking order fulfillment in the warehouse. LocusBots work collaboratively and safely alongside warehouse staff, helping to quickly locate and transport pick items, so pickers don't have to push carts or carry bins. “We believe it's critical to identify and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
October 04, 2016
…delivery services broadly to others like UPS, FedEx, and DHL, it does believe Amazon will look to do more and more in-house each year, as its density grows. Depending on Amazon’s next steps that may eventually turn out to be an understatement. According to the WSJ report, a senior Amazon official was quoted as saying the company “is building a full-service logistics and transportation network effectively from the ground up.” And it added that Amazon could save $1.1 billion annually were it to stop using FedEx and UPS, based on an analysis from Citigroup Inc., coupled with keeping packages under…
