Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.51
February 21, 2024
…same pallet, you may have a box from someone's grocery store that used to hold gallons of milk and now it holds the product with tape and an RMA number written on the side of it. And in the same pallet, you may have a product that has absolutely no packing.” A Universal Robots cobot handling boxes. The lack of return uniformity adds another wrinkle to the return logistics process. Should the cobots depalletize these boxes and restack them? Should the cobots put the inventory on a conveyor belt for further sortation? Where does the human-robot interaction occur and how…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.44
January 05, 2022
…disinfection. Its customers include hospitals, schools, airports, hotel chains, grocery stores, shopping centers, and facilities management company ISS World Services A/S. Claus Risager, CEO, Blue Ocean Robotics “A.P. Møller Holding provides us with even more financial muscle to consolidate and expand the market share for all of our robots,” said Claus Risager, CEO of Blue Ocean. “The expansion of UVD Robots must be accelerated, and we’ve done this with the brands, PTR Robots and GoBe Robots, two new robots, which are now also being made available on the global market.” “At the same time, by optimizing the physical robots, we…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.30
September 11, 2020
…of adults and children. If that wasn’t the case, grocery and drug stores wouldn’t devote entire aisles to the category. Anyone with elderly family members and friends undoubtedly knows someone in need of adult diapers, whether for a night-time issue or one that affects them around the clock. At the same time, it’s a condition that most of us prefer not to talk about, which means that for many, essential supplies are an embarrassing purchase many prefer to avoid. At least in a store. That realization led Greenberg to found NorthShore Care Supply in 2002. At the time, he was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.29
November 16, 2020
…of adults and children. If that wasn’t the case, grocery and drug stores wouldn’t devote entire aisles to the category. Anyone with elderly family members and friends undoubtedly knows someone in need of adult diapers, whether for a night-time issue or one that affects them around the clock. At the same time, it’s a condition that most of us prefer not to talk about, which means that for many, essential supplies are an embarrassing purchase many prefer to avoid. At least in a store. That realization led Greenberg to found NorthShore Care Supply in 2002. At the time, he was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.29
January 02, 2022
…and its hybrid forms like q-commerce (quick commerce) or e-grocery. Sorting of parcels in motion The Parallel Structured Light technology could transform the automation of sortation by allowing for the critical aspect of motion. For an illustration, let’s take a look at a Photoneo implementation for a major e-commerce retailer in Central Europe that fulfills more than 100,000 SKUs daily. A robot equipped with a Parallel Structured Light 3D camera picks parcels on a conveyor belt and sorts them according to delivery company. Source: Photoneo It starts with parcels moving on a conveyor belt toward a robot to be picked…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.28
December 19, 2018
…reduce the cost of order fulfillment in electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and many other industries. RHR was founded in 2014 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. Related: Honeywell and Fetch Robotics Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to DCs Related White Papers Material Handling Industry Makes the Digital Transformation The material handling industry is in the middle of a historic digital transformation from manual to automated processes in a distribution center (DC) and fulfillment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
May 25, 2022
…Bell, Papa John’s Pizza, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Wendy’s, and grocery giants like Target. All restaurants and retailers are listed on the Flytrex app. The suburban landscape is ripe for Flytrex’s ultrafast offering. On-demand delivery has been largely seen as economically impractical in suburban and rural areas, where traditional couriers are only able to make around two deliveries per hour. Flytrex is changing that with its automated, almost instantaneous backyard drone deliveries. All flights are conducted while maintaining the highest safety standards. What have you learned in your previous partnerships that is helping you with the latest delivery partners? Have you…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
November 03, 2021
…sortation and deliver competitive advantages for enterprises serving today's connected consumers. Multiple industries use its systems, including e-commerce, same-day grocery, package handling, and retail. With Intelligent Enterprise Robotics (IER), customers can support order fulfillment across their entire supply chains, said Berkshire Grey. The company's services include installation, testing, and commissioning, as well as continued support using cloud-based AI for predictive maintenance, operations management, analytics, and integration. Berkshire Grey added that its automated systems are modular, flexible, and available via a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) implementation model.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
November 24, 2021
…the pandemic, there's more demand for remote work, such as teleoperating forklifts. We'll also start to see warehouses for groceries.” “A lot of people want to create the warehouse of the future or the lights-out warehouse,” said Moore. “But we still have a capacity crunch on warehouse space, location, and utilization that we'll be watching.” “Our midsize and enterprise customers are trying to move as quickly as possible,” Elazary said. “With peak season, we'll see a lot more automation for fulfillment and more customers demanding robots that are easy, safe, and fun to work with.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.24
January 19, 2023
…in the package shipping, retail, e-commerce, consumer packaged goods, grocery, manufacturing, and intermodal industries. They have been conducting joint product testing and pilot operations since 2019. Outrider System adapts to enterprise operations Trucking moves over 20 billion tons of freight each year, and almost all of it passes through distribution hubs, said Outrider. These yards are difficult to staff and create bottlenecks in the supply chain, it noted. By automating yard operations, enterprises can increase the time freight spends moving down the highway, address labor shortages, and allow more people to work in safer environments, claimed the company. To autonomously…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.20
March 27, 2022
…added that its customers include Global 100 retailers, same-day grocery, and logistics service providers. The new Berkshire Grey Robotic Pick and Pack with Identification (BG RPPi) system uses machine learning to automate the picking of individual items and intelligently pack them directly into polybag, polyfilm, and sustainable packaging machines. It identifies orders in real time using advanced auto-identification and item-specific robotic manipulation technology, said the company. BG RPPi also passes data to autobagging equipment to create labels and package the items for shipping. The system is compatible with leading autobagging brands, including Pregis and CMC, with additional integration partners in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.16
March 04, 2022
…We then link high-density storage to goods-to-person automation.” “In grocery, the difference is the short shelf life and chilled products,” he said. “You have to have efficient processes to see what's in stock and to dispatch to retail stores or e-commerce routes. We see many and varied opportunities to apply velocity.” GXO scales to overcome labor shortages As retailers struggle with worker shortages and the need for technical expertise, many have turned to outsourcing and automation. GXO said its scale allows its customers to maximize the benefits of services and automation. “If you're a large U.S. company, you might have…
