Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.15
May 30, 2023
…depalletizing packages and sorting goods for the likes of FedEx and other leading shipping and logistics providers. Plus One Robotics' Erik Nieves and ffVC's Oliver Mitchell at Automate 2023. Source: Oliver Mitchell Plus One’s proprietary computer vision cobot platform is not waiting for the next generation of developers to join the ranks; the company is building its own intelligent protocols to increase efficiencies on the front lines of e-commerce fulfillment. The technology in these depalletizing arms helps us move certain shipments that would otherwise take up valuable resources to manually offload,” remarked Brian Marflak, a vice president at FedEx Express.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.35
May 12, 2023
…to handle the variance associated with seasonal shipping schedules.” FedEx is a key Plus One customer The company highlighted that FedEx is using 12 new Yaskawa induction systems that take advantage of Plus One's software at its FedEx Express Hub in Memphis, TN. FedEx had previously installed four other Plus One systems at the facility. Additionally, Plus One successfully introduced its mixed depalletizing systems at the FedEx Reno, NV facility. Plus One said its mixed depalletizing systems allow for easier, more efficient movement of cases from palleted shipments throughout the FedEx facility. “The technology in these depalletizing arms helps us…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.16
March 30, 2023
…former senior advisor for technology research and planning at FedEx. This year’s event will highlight new developments in these applications and more. Robotics vendors are welcome to provide speakers as long as they also bring users. How to speak at the 2023 Robotics Applications Conference For the 2023 Robotics Applications Conference, to be held on Wednesday, Oct. 18, Peerless Media is looking for submissions from users, integrators, industry analysts, and suppliers who can discuss real-world challenges and opportunities. “This event is an opportunity for robotics operators, vendors, and thought leaders to share how they automate tasks and solve problems with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.33
March 07, 2023
…logistics, and general merchandise industries, serving customers that include FedEx, MSC Industrial, and many more, it said. The funding round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with Partner Rory O’Driscoll joining the board of directors. Top Tier Capital Partners, Tyche Partners, ROBO Global Ventures, Translink, McRock Capital, and Pritzker Group Venture Capital also participated in the round alongside existing investors. The labor problem “The labor shortage is hitting the shipping industry hard, and parcel picking is an often overlooked yet essential part of the process,” said Scale Partner Rory O’Driscoll. “By automating the parcel handling piece, Plus One Robotics is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.57
January 25, 2023
…and categories, and reduce labor by about a third. FedEx also uses Berkshire Grey's systems, which can handle the wide variety of conditions that packages come in. For that solution, we're mainly presorting parcels that come in as returns. The system can can the barcode on the item to capture it for sorting. It singulates, scans, and sorts for up to 84 destinations. Click image to enlarge. Source: Berkshire Grey Berkshire Grey systems can sort diverse SKUs What kinds of goods can Berkshire Grey's sortation systems handle? Geyer: We're involved in general merchandise, including electronics and apparel—just about everything. I'm…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.43
January 17, 2023
…“end-to-end” commercial air cargo. It began flight testing with FedEx Express last year. The Chaparral is intended for aerial transport of up to 500 lb. (225 kg) of goods over a 300 nautical mile (555.6 km) range. This is enabled initially by a turbine-based, hybrid-electric powertrain with distributed electrical propulsion, as well as specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods. Applications include safe, efficient, and cost-effective aerial cargo transport for commercial logistics, disaster relief, firefighting, and humanitarian operations without risk to pilots, said Elroy Air. The company wrote that it has secured more than $2 billion in orders for more than…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.88
January 04, 2023
…to fill the gap that companies like Amazon and FedEx were not able to.” The company deployed autonomous delivery robots at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), Rome Fiumicino International Airport (FCO), and Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). In addition, Posten Norge in Oslo, Norway, and Goggo in Madrid, Spain, used Ottobot to automate first-mile and last-mile deliveries. Ottonomy is also working with industry partners in Canada and Saudi Arabia and has scheduled more launches for 2023 in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Ottobot 2.0 rolls out Ottonomy introduced Ottobot 2.0 in the third quarter of 2022. It described the system as “the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.02
December 29, 2022
…and Walmart started services in Arizona, Florida, and Texas. FedEx Express plans to begin drone cargo deliveries with Elroy Air in 2023. How much could the drone delivery market grow? Estimates vary widely. Future Market Insights projected a 33% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from $322 million in 2022 to $5.5 billion in 2032. Research and Markets forecast a CAGR of 49%, from $228 million in 2022 to $5.5 billion by 2030. Allied Market Research predicted a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.3%, from $940 million in 2021 to $32.1 billion in 2031. While the starting and ending totals…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.00
November 05, 2022
…driven by runaway growth in package delivery. According to FedEx, the U.S. domestic package delivery market is likely to hit 110 million packages per day in 2022. Pre-pandemic they did not expect to exceed 100 million daily packages until 2026. A huge amount of this growth is driven by e-commerce; data from Statista shows that U.S. e-commerce retail revenue will grow from $768 billion in 2021 to $1.3 trillion in 2025. Mobile robots are one way for logistics companies to deal with this growth challenge, especially in the face of a seemingly never-ending labor shortage. That’s because the mobile robot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.83
October 21, 2022
In 2019, Aaron Prather, then senior technology advisor at FedEx Express, challenged autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, vendors to work on interoperability at the Association for Advancing Automation’s first AMR Conference in Louisville, Ky. He said that either suppliers cooperate to get their robots “to play well together,” or major users such as FedEx would look elsewhere. Interoperability was once again a key topic of discussion at this year’s AMR and Logistics Week in Boston. In a session on “Standardization Efforts for Mobile Robot Interoperability,” panelists outlined the progress they have made on the MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard, which was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.45
October 19, 2022
…the robot arm ecosystem, despite Amazon, Ocado, Kindred, and FedEx,” he added. “Consolidation will happen, but Plus One is fortunate. We started with the application rather than the technology. The only metric that matters for us is the number of picks around the world.” “We've had a lot of success with mixed depalletizing, which people don't want to do,” said Nieves. “Companies want to reach boxes at the bottom, not the top at induction.” “We say, 'Robots work, people rule,' because people are more flexible. They can begin decanting and then do packout and then do palletizing,” he said. “You…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.84
October 07, 2022
FedEx Corp. is shutting down its robotic same-day delivery service, according to an internal memo obtained by Robotics 24/7. In an e-mail sent to FedEx employees this week, Sriram Krishnasam, chief transformation officer at FedEx, said the company was eliminating Roxo, the FedEx Sameday Bot, as part of an internal organizational program called DRIVE. Amazon.com Inc. also announced this week that it is scaling back its own robot delivery service. “Although robotics and automation are key pillars of our innovation strategy, Roxo did not meet necessary near-term value requirements for DRIVE,” Krishnasam wrote. “Although we are ending the research and…
