Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.75
May 07, 2024
…color and type to correctly route the ACOPS 6D shuttles to the IRB 360 FlexPicker to fulfill custom orders delivered to ACOPOStrak - all while maintaining high speed throughput, track and trace, and adaptability to last second order changes. ABB said its digital corner will highlight its suite of software tools that can take the time, effort, and complexity out of programming and operating robots - from RobotStudio to ABB’s new range of OmniCore robot controllers. ABB to celebrate 50 years of expansion and education ABB said its investment in AI, including the recent acquisition of Sevensense, an AI-enabled 3D…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.61
January 25, 2023
…items on shelves as quickly as possible. Our Robotic Shuttle Putwall (RSPW) is well-adapted to a wide SKU variety. It handles the unpackaged mix of goods you get in returns and can be configured for reverse-logistics applications. How are RPSi and RSPW designed to handle otherwise hard-to-sort goods? Geyer: For instance, RPSW is able to sort very small goods, such as cosmetics, for returns. Shoes have a high rate of return and RSPW can also handle shoeboxes. RSPi is now able to weigh items, which allows packaging and shipping companies to charge their customers appropriately. Automation allows them to focus…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.60
October 23, 2024
…affordable.” Rethink Robotics’ Ryder AMRs can be used to shuttle Reacher cobot arms from workcell to workcell, maximizing efficiency and ROI. Source: Rethink Robotics “One AMR can do fleet management for multiple production cells,” McEntyre said. Harbert added the robot arm and AMR portions of an MMR are usually bolted together and not easily separated. “Using a mobile robot and a robotic arm series that can work together and also separate and do their own jobs and then come back together - that is a really new concept,” he said. “It's difficult to set up the same robot arm in…
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 4.55
March 25, 2019
…attendees began boarding the long black buses that would shuttle them to the site of the keynote. The 15-min ride from the convention center took them to the San Jose State University's sunny campus. It was still more than an hour before the scheduled keynote, but the queue was already snaking through the grass fields, all the way to the student union building that houses the canteen. “Hey, thanks for coming out this way! We got so packed in the old place we had to get you out here. I appreciate you making the trip,” said NVIDIA's cofounder and CEO…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.37
January 24, 2022
…port complex, reduce yard truck usage, and create a shuttle system to inland ports and terminals Direct to warehouse: Would connect rail to adjacent factories and warehouses and brings containers directly to the facility, eliminating transportation mode changes and short-distance truck delivery costs; could also increase weight capacity, as rail can sustain more tonnage than trucks In addition, Parallel said it is developing software to allow its vehicles and platoons to integrate with existing rail operations so all freight trains and transit interoperates. Its fully-automated connected system uses machine learning to optimize vehicle routing, traffic scheduling, and energy consumption. Funding…
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 4.36
June 17, 2022
…with one another, but with traditional fixed automation like shuttles. Companies want to accelerate the overall fulfillment process while offsetting the inability to find enough human workers to stick with the manual tasks that often exist on the edges of their operations. Nieves foresees that more and more companies will turn to solutions from robotics partners to extend the benefits of traditional automation like an ASRS. That way, they won’t have one big zone of automation in the middle of a DC with bottlenecks upstream or downstream, he said. “If you make gains by automating in one area, but what…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.34
October 03, 2022
…provides warehouse automation, showed how its software and robotic shuttles can provide dense storage for efficient fulfillment. Also from Wilmington, Analog Devices Inc. used small autonomous cars to show its semiconductor and communications technology can do. Vicarious Surgical Inc. had toy robot arms for children to assemble and continued its recruitment efforts from MassRobotics’ career fair the day before. The Waltham, Mass.-based company entered into a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger last year. It completed the Beta 2 system design of its minimally invasive surgical robot this summer. On the consumer side, Tertill Corp. fielded several inquiries about its robot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.27
July 23, 2020
…in the future. Fifty-eight percent plan to invest in shuttle systems and/or mobile robotic storage and retrieval systems (versus 47% in 2019), while 54% plan to implement palletizing robots (up from 47% last year). Goods-to-person picking solutions saw a large uptick, with more than half of respondents (51%) planning to implement this equipment (up from 37% last year). The hunt for more data Within the warehouse, the popular data collection technologies by far are bar code scanners (85%) and mobile/wireless technologies (73%). Heads-up displays and other vision technologies have seen the biggest uptick in usage, from 6% in 2019 to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.17
December 03, 2022
…using two autonomous fork trucks from Vecna: One vehicle shuttles pallets from receiving to a drop zone for long distance pallet movements in the vast distribution center; the other is used to transport empty totes. As the technology improves, Medline expects to pilot autonomous reach trucks, especially for narrow aisle storage. While it may be some time before those technologies are fully deployed across Medline’s network, they reflect Medline’s commitment to continuous improvement. “The challenges of the last two years have ultimately had a positive impact on our strategy,” said Slattery. “We are in the unique position of having incredible…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.17
November 24, 2021
…people can operate in their own areas.” “If a shuttle in an ASRS [automated storage and retrieval system] breaks, you have to shut down the whole system to get it,” he said. “The benefit of a system like ours is that if one robot shuts down, the whole system keeps going.” “Our Picker robots are relatively light and nonthreatening, and we developed PickerWall so robots and people don't always have to work in the same area,” Elazary said. “We talk a lot about physical safety, but we also think about mental health,” said Kristen Moore, chief marketing officer at inVia.…
