Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.55
May 06, 2022
…a very concise and precise way,” he said. VandenBrook said interoperability is “critical” as companies such as Amazon and Shopify continue to invest billions to build up fulfillment centers. “As an ecosystem, clients are going to demand the best point solution for their operation in order to give them a competitive advantage in the marketplace,” he said. “I don’t see that changing in the future.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.31
February 13, 2022
…providers. Other retailers, such as Walmart, Best Buy, and Shopify, have gained greater flexibility and visibility into their logistics operations with advanced software and mobile robots. Walmart uses AMRs for floor cleaning and taking inventory. The company also uses warehouse automation and is working on autonomous vehicles and drone deliveries. In 2019, Shopify acquired AMR provider 6 River Systems, but unlike Amazon and Kiva, 6 River Systems continues to sell robots to other customers. Another example is inVia Robotics, which has developed an array of AMRs that can conduct various warehouse tasks, including cycle counting, inventory replenishment, and item verification.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.44
January 18, 2022
…chain process. Guest speakers and panelists included Mike Rowe, Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein, and Adapt or Die author, Jeremy Bodenhamer. Sessions covered everything from customer case studies, to new feature enhancements to the 6 River Systems wall-to-wall fulfillment solution, to virtual networking opportunities. In short, FLOW 2021 had (and, thanks to exclusive access through the link below, has) something for anyone looking for ideas on how they might improve their supply chain or fulfillment operations. View more: FLOW 2021 sessions SPARK Matrix Report: Autonomous Mobile Robots, 2021 Why it made the list: In addition to the well-documented labor crunch, McKinsey…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.17
December 14, 2021
…Rylan Hamilton were previously executives at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics). 6RS is now part of global commerce company Shopify Inc. The company's Chuck robots are operating in more than 20 facilities in the U.S., Canada and Europe, fulfilling millions of units each week for companies including Lockheed Martin, CSAT Solutions, ACT Fulfillment, DHL, XPO Logistics, and Office Depot.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.39
November 10, 2021
…to building a balanced workforce. Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify, dove deep into the future of fulfillment and the vision for Shopify and 6 River Systems’ pivotal roles in that future, highlighting trends driving change and identifying opportunities on the horizon. Thierry Driesens, digital transformation officer at DHL; Jeremy Bodenhamer, co-founder and co-CEO of ShipHawk and author of Adapt or Die; and Larry Emmert, vice president of operations at Legend Valve, were panelists for “The Future of Work: Human and Robot Collaboration,” a session covering the progress of technologically influenced labor. Attendees were also able to hear from Jerome Dubois,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.19
September 20, 2021
…perfectly solved everything under 40 lb. While Amazon and Shopify bought their own robotics companies, if you order from a place that sells only, say, bracelets, it's obvious. However, most e-commerce retailers have eaches, samples, and cases—an array of products that need to be picked, with physical size and weight that vary widely.” “The model that Locus uses could be extended to heavier-payload robots,” he said. “Instead of picking socks to a tote, you could pick a case of soup to a big robot, building a mixed pallet as you go. By the time a pallet gets to outbound, you…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.06
July 12, 2021
…Such brands typically use e-commerce software from vendors like Shopify or Big Commerce, but they don’t want to get into the business of building out their own distribution network or managing multiple 3PLs. They do want analytics and insight into inventory strategy and how that matches up with their demand patterns, said Gulati. “They can monitor order-fulfillment trends and how much inventory they have left, and also benefit from analytics,” he said. “With our analytics, they can see where their customers are, and then the software recommends the best fulfillment center locations for them to use in our network to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.19
April 13, 2021
…also announced partnerships with Segway, Knight Foundation, Chick-fil-A, and Shopify. The company said it has built more than 400 Kiwibots and completed more than 150,000 food deliveries to date. Kiwibot is dedicated to developing a safer, more economical, and more environmentally sustainable way to deliver goods, said Felipe Chávez Cortés, co-founder and CEO of Kiwibot. Kiwibot features Kiwibot's next-generation mobile robot was designed from the ground up, with new sensors, artificial intelligence, and other modular features for human-machine interaction. “It was a long process, from defining requirements to production,” said Natalia Pinilla, head of hardware at Kiwibot. She said the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.57
March 05, 2020
…collaborative warehouse solutions and subsidiary of multi-channel commerce platform Shopify, said today that it has rolled out various enhancements to Chuck, its collaborative mobile robot. 6RS officials explained that the company’s solution is able to manage the entire fulfillment workflow, ranging from putaway to picking, sorting, and packing. And they added that the new improvements to its order allocation algorithm and organizations to batch, zone, and other picking methodologies focus on cutting down on associate walking in the warehouse, coupled with new modular and larger multi-level workspaces, help to make Chuck “the most flexible collaborative mobile robot in the industry.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.84
January 08, 2020
…Automated Packaging Systems Hyster-Yale Group to collaborate with Honeywell Shopify acquires 6 River Systems Dematic announces strategic partnership with OPEX Locus Robotics announces technology collaboration partnership with RightHand Robotics After acquiring MHS in 2017, THL acquires AutoStore GreyOrange partners with eight supply chain industry leaders in the United States Tompkins Robotics partners with Bastian Solutions Research and economy Robotic unit orders show growth over last year CBRE report: Online returns expected to total $37 billion for 2018 holiday season Deloitte industrial manufacturing outlook tracks digitalization’s steady march North American robotics orders to non-automotive companies surge to new records BDO Survey:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.05
December 02, 2019
…been prominent investments and acquisitions this year, e.g., by Shopify and Amazon. Overall, we forecast that more than 200k robots could be sold within the 2020-2030 period (this figure includes those that can perform picking of regularly or irregularly shaped items). Picking mobile robots to dominate AMRs? Picking or grasping technology is an essential component of warehouse automation. Today, many firms and research groups are deploying deep learning to enable robots to rapidly pick novel and irregularly-shaped items with high success rates. To this end, various strategies to data collection/annotation and to DNN training are being followed. A limited number…
