Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.36
October 24, 2022
…firms and strategic investors including ABB Technology Ventures, FANUC, Honeywell Ventures, and Yamaha Motor Co. mGripAI built for ease of integration mGripAI combines 3D perception, soft grasping, and AI to enable high-speed picking, sortation, singulation, and packaging of items from bulk presentations to bins, boxes, totes, or conveyance. Soft Robotics said it is easy to integrate. By allowing systems integrators and OEM machine builders to to automate complex processes, mGripAI helps free end users from their primary challenge—a scarce and expensive labor force, said the company. Soft Robotics partners with other PACK EXPO exhibitors At PACK EXPO from Oct. 23…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.65
October 12, 2022
…loading and unloading include Boston Dynamics, Dextrous Robotics, and Honeywell Intelligrated. GreyMatter and iTLS promise to increase efficiency iTLS—Powered by GreyMatter can enable 99% palletization efficiency and accuracy when forming rainbow pallets, said the partners. It can also improve ergonomics to eliminate worker fatigue, reduce dock turnaround times by up to 150%, and improve productivity by up to fourfold for truck loading and unloading. “Supply chain and logistics leaders now have another avenue to meet global challenges, including the current labor shortage, as cooperative robotics-human solutions are increasingly recognized by both workers and leaders as essential tools for supporting the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.12
October 06, 2022
…an autonomous forklift and has partnered with Siemens and Honeywell. The company also recently released analytics software to provide greater visibility into materials handling processes. Last month, OTTO Motors said Guidance Automation Ltd. has become the first reseller of its AMRs in the U.K. “Often, automation is seen as a complex disruption which will completely overhaul existing processes—particularly for SMEs [small and midsize enterprises],” said Paul Rivers, managing director of Guidance Automation. “But logistics businesses do not need to completely understand or have the skills and knowledge to achieve automation success.” “Instead, we will be doing this for the customer,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.16
September 30, 2022
…just getting started Other robots for unloading trucks include Honeywell Intelligrated's Robotic Unloader and Articulated Arm Loader/Unloader and Boston Dynamics' Stretch. “My opinions is that we have the best approach, but Honeywell's system is impressive,” acknowledged Drumwright. “The suction approach has been tried for 15 years, and it's hard to pick up a box from the top or a single side.” “It's a huge market out there, and Boston Dynamics can find a subset of it,” he continued. “At MODEX, Stretch was operating fairly continuously, and I didn't see it drop anything, unlike every other company, which doesn't even know…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.83
July 12, 2022
…help supply chains cope with uncertainty and shifting demand? Honeywell International Inc. today released a whitepaper exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic, global trade challenges, and regional conflicts have created long-term disruptions to the historically predictable throughput and capacity of warehouses and distribution centers. The report, “Warehouse Automation: Future-Proofing the Global Economy” report, which was written by Futurum Research, examined automation as an increasingly critical component in helping warehouse and distribution center (DC) operators meet escalating consumer demands. ““One of the biggest predictors of how a business will thrive in the hypercompetitive e-commerce and omnichannel marketplace is how well it improves…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.06
July 05, 2022
…explained Laura Bickle, senior offering manager for WES at Honeywell Intelligrated, a major provider of warehouse automation and related software. “The WCS system is focused on product throughput, but not optimizing the process end to end like a WES can,” Bickle said. “By utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, WES enables the customer to make real-time, last-minute decisions based on system status to avoid congestion and maximize throughput.” WES essential for orchestration Over the years, vendors with WCS have enhanced their software with more capabilities around functions like order release logic and load balancing to come up with what is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.13
July 03, 2022
…is now coming on strong in manufacturing and warehousing. Honeywell Intelligrated, which has been in the palletizing space for 20 years, has been evolving the equipment over time. “It started with fixed, static inline palletizers that worked with single, layered products,” said Thomas Evans, robotics chief technology officer at Honeywell Intelligrated. “Since then, we’ve made the systems more intelligent with AI or machine learning algorithms that give the robots the intelligence to individually pick and place items.” It all comes down to customer demands and needs, he noted. “We’re creating technology and an evolving product line to increase flexibility and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.19
June 10, 2022
…also seen automotive, consumer packaged goods, and fast-moving consumer goods.” Judkowitz cited customer reference cases including Faurecia and Danfoss. “Honeywell mentioned its collaboration with OTTO in its latest earnings call,” he noted. “We're thrilled to be working with partners such as them and Boston Dynamics.” At LogiMAT in Stuttgart, Germany, last week, OTTO Motors announced that it was partnering with ek robotics, a European manufacturer and integrator of AGVs.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.36
May 20, 2022
…by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors that include ABB Technology Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, FANUC, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Honeywell Ventures, Material Impact, Scale Venture Partners, Tekfen Ventures, Tyson Ventures and Yamaha Motor Ventures.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.37
May 06, 2022
…Intelligent Machines; Thomas Evans, robotics chief technology officer at Honeywell; Erik Nieves, co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics Inc.; Damion Shelton, co-founder and CEO of Agility Robotics; and Lance VandenBrook, CEO of IAM Robotics. “We thought there were a lot of lessons that could be extracted from the experiences of the founders here, said moderator Firdaus Pohowalla, Cascadia Capital’s managing director for robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence. Topics of discussions included the labor shortage, the e-commerce boom, system interoperability, ramping up robot production, robotics as a service (RaaS), and more. Erik Nieves, CEO of Plus One Robotics Where should…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.17
May 05, 2022
…said David Lincoln, managing partner at Activate Capital. “We believe Fictiv is the category leader transforming how companies like Honeywell gain unmatched productivity, efficiency, and enterprise scalability through digitized workflows that dramatically change the speed and quality of manufacturing in markets such as energy, healthcare, space, and transportation,” Lincoln said.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.57
May 04, 2022
Honeywell International Inc. today announced the spring 2022 release of enhancements to Honeywell Forge, its enterprise performance management (EPM) offering designed to help customer accelerate the digital transformation of their operations. The company said Honeywell Forge EPM for Warehouse will help organizations lower costs through new visibility, insights, monitoring, and automation across their supply chains. “Our new EPM for Warehouse offering brings a scalable, secure, and cloud-based solution to help distribution centers accelerate their productivity, predictability, and transformation strategies,” said Kevin Dehoff, president and CEO of Honeywell Connected Enterprise. “We are proud to also introduce several enhancements to our existing…
