Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.66
August 06, 2023
…also used in loading/offloading of objects within the space shuttle. Three of the most widely known space manipulators are: Canadarm1—14.7 m (48.8 ft.) long arms Canadarm2—17.5 m (57.7 ft.) long arms Special-Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) or Dextre—3.3 m (11 ft.) long arms Why is robotics the only way into space? Future space missions will be longer A typical one-way trip to the International Space Station (ISS) takes about two days, a trip to the moon is a minimum of three days, and a trip to the closest planet would take several months. As humanity pushes to explore deeper into space,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.35
August 02, 2023
…high-performance, solid-state lidar and could be used for robotaxi, shuttle, and delivery applications, claimed Innoviz. It is designed to be reliable, affordable, and power-efficient and to integrate with Level 3 to 5 autonomous vehicles, ensuring safety, the company said. What about the debate between cameras and lidar? Are both necessary? “Visual sensors are very popular, but if you want 3D visibility, cameras can struggle,” Shabat replied. “Even with stereo vision, they're still not able to achieve the accuracy of lidar of a few centimeters at 100 meters. For different lighting and weather conditions, you want to have redundant systems and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.15
July 27, 2023
…Maersk said the deployment of the Berkshire Grey Robotic Shuttle Put Wall (BG RSPW) follows its vision of using technology “to integrate logistics and offer flexible and resilient end-to-end solutions to its customers.” It said the project is intended to do the following: Maximize SKU coverage across a variety of Maersk customers and use cases Increase resilience and flexibility to the supply chain Continue to build on Maersk’s commitment to sustainability Fast deployment and minimal interruption to the existing warehouse infrastructure Berkshire Grey said its Robotic Shuttle Put Wall (BG RSPW) easily integrates into existing fulfillment processes to sort orders…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.59
July 25, 2023
…technology like automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) and mini-shuttles, the “element of sortation” that has to happen at the end—prior to the order being sent out the door—is often best handled by put walls, he observed. Within the put walls themselves, Gerbitz said more put-to-light technology and other options are being integrated into the equipment. “Put walls can still function as stand-alone solutions with traditional batch picking and sorting the batches into individual orders, but they’re also working more and more in conjunction with other solutions,” he said. Matthews Automation recently introduced bin illumination options that use mounted LED…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.06
July 19, 2023
…satellite connection—because bandwidth can be limited and costly to shuttle from its robust suite of sensors producing high-resolution imagery. The USVs have oceanographic sensors for measurement of wind, temperature, salinity and dissolved carbon. Saildrone said it also enables research of ocean and lake floors with bathymetric sensors, including deep sonar mapping with single- or multi-beam for going deeper or wider. Saildrone's perceptual suite also includes radar and visual underwater acoustic sensors. DeepStream goes into the deep sea Saildrone has used the NVIDIA DeepStream SDK for its vision AI applications and services. Developers can build seamless streaming pipelines for AI-based video,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.14
June 26, 2023
…trucks, piece-picking and goods-to-person systems, robotic putwalls, and even shuttles in an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). While they can all operate in the same facility, they don’t typically interface with or talk to one another. They are islands of automation. That’s a blast from the past that wasn’t a compliment in the 1980s and 1990s, either. Furthermore, there’s the matter of pacing and sharing the workload across those robots so store shipments can be made on schedule. Quite simply, how do they get the work done? Good old-fashioned inventory management is both part of the challenge and central…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.73
May 19, 2023
…4:15 p.m. Bosch Rexroth will be featuring the ACTIVE Shuttle in the AMR Demo Area at the following times: Tuesday, May 23, from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. (EST) Thursday, May 25, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Bosch Rexroth demos at Automate The company said its key booth demos and highlights will include: ctrlX AUTOMATION: This four-sided demo will illustrate the modularity and scalability of ctrlX AUTOMATION while presenting an overview of ctrlX DRIVE and ctrlX CORE hardware capabilities. On display will be a three-axis ctrlX DRIVE linked to a ctrlX CORE industrial PC running in real-time. Other components, such…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.62
May 18, 2023
…complement Geek+'s ASRS products, said Perdue. “The Geek+ Robo Shuttle, Four-Way Shuttle, and Pop Pick solutions are in fact all examples of automated storage systems,” he said. “They provide high-density storage and retrieval, while OSARO augments the picking and packing by turning the goods-to-person [G2P] picking station into a GTR picking station.” “OSARO can pick from virtually any ASRS in the same way,” he added. “This agreement with Geek+ is about automating the final step in the fulfillment process, and gives the customer a one-stop solution that de-risks the project.” Founded in 2015, Geek+ said it applies robotics and artificial…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.81
May 01, 2023
…reduces engineering effort and accelerates time-to-market by easily integrating into existing automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). These include shuttle, cubic, and 3D storage solutions, said ABB. In addition to LogiMAT, the company plans to exhibit at Booth 5623 at Automate 2023 later this month in Detroit.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.36
April 30, 2023
…management. It can control all types of conveyor technology, shuttle systems, and ASRS, said Körber. The second example is Savoye, a French automation company that offers a WCS to manage and supervise all scheduling, synchronization, and routing operations in the warehouse. Savoye’s X-PTS Pick Station offers different modes for different activities — such as picking inventory. The final example is Zebra Technologies' Fetch Robotics unit, which provides the FetchCore cloud-based WCS software that it said provides complete control of warehouse automation. The software can control a variety of robots, such as Freight1500 robots, which Zebra claimed is a workhorse that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.47
April 29, 2023
…extremely high throughput, using hundreds of onboard robots or shuttles, each of which may contain conveyors, sensors, motor controllers, onboard power such as batteries or supercapacitors, and more. These devices not only need power, they need lots of it provided consistently. And they often require wireless control communications to operate in harmony. Watching an ASRS system in action is to witness a symphony of devices receiving power and data at just the right time, hundreds if not thousands of times per hour. Still striving to prepare for the future, the systems we now see in the design and initial deployment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.75
April 14, 2023
…professionals who use the region to import goods and shuttle them throughout the country. Ohio boasts the seventh largest economy in the U.S. and a workforce of 1.2 million people. Roughly 151 million people are within a one-day drive of the region, and its Foreign Trade Zone ranked 12th of 200 such U.S. locations in 2021, moving $9.7 billion worth of goods that year. The Columbus area is home to Rickenbacker International Airport, one of the few airports in the world primarily focused on cargo. Fewer than 300,000 passengers fly out of the airport, primarily via Allegiant Air flights and…
