Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.13
December 20, 2022
…customers” he said. “Our system can handle it well. “Grocery is another area where we have a number of sites,” Bellamy said. “E-commerce is slowing down a bit, where if an operation doesn't need to scale this year, it can put off growth until next year.” “It's not just retail—in B2B [business-to-business] wholesale, such as auto parts, companies need systems that are highly responsive to many SKUs,” he said. “They can't take three hours to retrieve something from a system. Exotec can handle complexity with a high degree of performance.” “In Europe, a trend is picking up around energy-efficient solutions…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.11
August 02, 2022
…pilots to include fully customizable modular cabins, suitable for grocery deliveries, food and beverages, and e-commerce packages. They can be insulated to maintain hot or cold temperatures and configured with multiple compartments. Ottonomy also designed the robot to be accessible by adults, children, the elderly, and people with special abilities or wheelchairs. It also includes contactless human-robot interaction for security and no-touch deliveries, unlike traditional personal identification code (PIN) access. The Contextual Navigation Engine lets Ottobot 2.0 navigate fully autonomously in unpredictable environments both indoors or outdoors, said the company. It fuses data from 3D lidar sensors, multiple cameras, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.09
January 18, 2022
…“We have brought together world-class strategic partners in transportation, grocery delivery, and compute, along with the best capital resources to scale our core autonomy platform, trial products with our commercial fleet partners, and build the infrastructure to scale AV2.0 globally,” he said. Founded in 2017, Wayve said it “is on a mission to reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.” The company said it was the first to deploy autonomous vehicles on public roads in the U.K. with “end-to-end deep learning.” Wayve said AV2.0 is “a next-generation autonomous driving system that can quickly and safely adapt to new driving domains anywhere…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.09
May 20, 2019
…typical store are being tested to support fast inexpensive grocery delivery. CommonSense Robotics, an Israeli micro-fulfillment startup has launched autonomous sorting and shipping capabilities to prepare orders in less than three minutes. According to CommonSense Robotics, retailers incur a loss of $5 to $15 on every manually picked online grocery order. In fall 2018, CB Insights reported that grocery retailer Albertsons partnered with warehousing robotics startup Takeoff Technologies to pilot a small urban fulfillment center. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are more advanced than older AGVs (Automated guided vehicles) and finding adoption in warehouses that require faster, smarter, more flexible robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.93
September 19, 2022
…our washdown-capable systems can now work in markets like grocery, which has been a really strong target in our roadmap,” said Gravelle. Beyond the hardware, Attabotics has been refining its software to take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company said its systems can deliver data and visibility into customer operations. “This is a milestone in the development of the business,” he said. “It took us six years through prototyping and research and development to a fully commercialized platform. This milestone unlocks companies to go beyond the robotics and look at operational intelligence.” “We've spent most…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.91
August 10, 2020
…movements and interactions. And mobile automation solutions that roam grocery store aisles to check for out-of-stock or misplaced items can minimize the number of associates that have to be on the floor. Of course, intelligent automation solutions could be used to deliver essentials, such as food and medicine, to customers and patients as well. In healthcare environments, smart robots could potentially be used to take patients’ temperatures in lieu of other IoT technologies. Cobots could also be used to transport COVID-19 samples from the point of collection to the lab to reduce unnecessary walking by care team members and maintain…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.90
May 06, 2022
…in,” said Brian Kirby, the Meinig Family Professor of Engineering at Cornell’s MAE. “Everything that we buy at the grocery store, every package that ends up at our front door was touched by material handling equipment at some point in the process.” “If we can’t move goods and materials, it has a domino effect on all kinds of things in industry, the economy, and ultimately our society,” he said. “The opportunity to expose our students to such an important industry while also revolutionizing the way they learn is a win-win on every level.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.81
January 29, 2023
…U.S. The family-owned company also produces snack foods for grocery and convenience stores and ingredients for corporate clients such as restaurants and even other food manufacturers. For more than 65 years, Sargento said it has continued its quest “to be the most innovative, best-loved real food company by pioneering pre-sliced cheese, vacuum packaging, resealable packaging, and production of shredded cheese and shredded cheese blends.” Freeing up space poses a challenge Although Sargento makes high-quality products, the storage and distribution of cheese can be a complicated process. As demand hs continued to increase, warehouse space became scarce, and the company began…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.80
October 09, 2020
…of recent partnerships,” together with onboarding companions Oatly and grocery store chain Lidl in addition to launching a freight mobility platform designed to present prospects data on delivery quantity, distance pushed, and related emissions and assist choose probably the most environment-friendly routes. “There may be each a number of pleasure and a number of uncertainties about autonomous trucking, however, the reality stays: this is, without doubt, one of the largest enterprise alternatives within the historical past of mankind,” stated Einride CEO Robert Falck in a press release, who added that the corporate expects to see the autonomous transport trade increase…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.78
September 04, 2019
…that use wireless data loggers. “Amazon’s entry into the food sector signals a shift in how consumers receive their groceries—it also represents a new challenge in food cold chain management,” Rousseau concludes. “While solutions to this movement are underway, it’s inevitable that infrastructure must be improved and streamlined to deliver food that’s safe, fresh and compliant with domestic and international agencies.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.77
July 29, 2023
…surpassed $1 trillion last year – on everything from groceries to consumer electronics, where strict inventory management is paramount. Today, online shoppers can order goods 24/7, with an increasing number of retailers offering next-day delivery. This quick turnaround puts massive pressure on warehouse operations in terms of goods in and goods out, material handling, and pick and pack operations. Enter, the autonomous mobile robot—or AMR, such as this example—and, more recently, autonomous drones – with intelligent sensor technologies being the key enabler to both. Steady adoption of smarter warehouse automation Against this backdrop, automated guided vehicles—AGVs, such as these from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.74
June 12, 2020
…utilized portion of the supply chain. For example, in Grocery, the frozen foods chain depends on refrigerated storage and transport trucks. When people were suddenly eating home much more, the frozen food sales took off. However, grocers couldn’t easily add more frozen storage at the DCs, nor quickly procure a bunch of refrigerated trucks, so they struggled to meet the increased demand in these somewhat specialized areas. LM: Why is the percentage of “digitally ready” retailers only at 12%? Hull: In one word, “Data.” An autonomous supply chain requires clean data, at the right level of granularity. This includes clean…
