Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.64
April 05, 2022
…of the reasons to publicly list Knightscope was to gain access to the wider capital markets and fuel the growth of our mission to make the United States of America the safest country in the world,” said William Santana Li, chairman and chief executive officer, Knightscope, Inc. “This facility provides us just that – an ability to continue our growth on our timetable and at our discretion, providing for one of the least dilutive financing mechanisms available to the Company,” said Li. Founded in 2013, Knightscope said its Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) are intended to deter, detect, and report on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.63
April 04, 2022
…North and South American markets. Examples of partnerships to gain access to new markets included Murata Machinery and AGVE Group, Muratec and Cimcorp, and Addverb Technologies and Numina Group. And, while not really a consolidation, I remain impressed by the amount of private equity funds that continue to be invested in our space. Robotics reaches a tipping point Back in 2015, I invited Tom Galluzzo, the co-founder of IAM Robotics, to write an article for Supply Chain Management Review [Editor's Note: a sibling site to Robotics 24/7] on why roboticists like him were jumping into the materials handling space. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.43
March 24, 2022
…of defense, has joined the team at HowToRobot and Gain & Co as a board advisor. The sister companies said Weber brings a wealth of geopolitical and global supply chain knowledge that will be useful as the Danish companies just opened offices in Chicago. The robotics group said it supports North American and European manufacturing companies in transforming their operations with robot automation. In less than five years, the companies said they have established themselves as major intermediary between robot buyers and sellers globally. Gain & Co is a consulting firm that helps customers integrate robotics into their businesses. It…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.03
March 23, 2022
…RIOS's session on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS). Facilities and operations can gain insights on how to maximize profit streams with the RaaS model with no upfront costs or large, unforeseen maintenance fees. RIOS also said that attendees can learn how robotic workcells as a service is transforming businesses every day and increasing productivity, despite limited labor resources. Mandy Dwight, RIOS Mandy Dwight: Customers of all scale, especially small and mid-sized players, find RaaS makes innovative technology accessible. This is increasingly important in highly competitive industries and geographic regions where labor scarcity and availability are hindering production capacities. RIOS customers share they are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.13
March 22, 2022
…pretrained models from the NVIDIA NGC catalog. They also gain access to the latest frameworks and tools for application development and optimization such as NVIDIA Isaac on Omniverse, Clara for healthcare, Metropolis, and the TAO Toolkit. “AI model development is a time-consuming process,” Talla said. “NVIDIA's application frameworks include easy-to-use libraries that accelerate runtime applications.” These tools can reduce time and cost for production-quality AI deployments, allowing developers to access the largest, most complex models needed to solve robotics and edge AI challenges in 3D perception, natural language understanding, multisensor fusion, and more, NVIDIA said. NVIDIA touts ecosystem support, customer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.10
March 22, 2022
…solutions to overcome the last mile delivery issues will gain in the battlefield of supply chains. Latest trends point to emerging practice of Direct to Customer (D2C) over reaching customer via Distribution Centers (DC2C). One must keep in mind that this strategy is not just about eliminating a middle layer in the supply chain. As opposed to this, it is to gain efficiencies just by adopting automation and technology to eliminate a dispensable layer. Economies of scale is a driver to adopt this strategy and hence large players benefit from this. A centralised warehouse that caters to one or more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.19
March 09, 2022
…said DOBOT. Numerous robotics vendors have developed collaborative robots, but DOBOT said it is one of the few to gain strong support for both industrial and educational robots. After DOBOT's launch of the M1 Pro at iREX 2022, the SCARA robot will officially go on sale worldwide. The company said its distributors will help customers place orders globally and ship M1 Pro collaborative robots on time.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.38
March 07, 2022
…12 months, the growth categories included lift trucks (8% gain versus last year), radio frequency identification (RFID) systems (up by 6%), and power transmission including motors and belts (up 7%). Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) were up 3%, and more dramatically, packaging investments including palletizers and pallets, were up from 25% last year to 40% this year. The survey also asked about which new purchases or substantial changes to existing systems fell into one of three broad areas of investment: IT; use of third-party logistics providers (3PLs); and various “system equipment” investments such as automated storage…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.12
March 01, 2022
…made in 2021 and that it “is continuing to gain momentum as the entire autonomous delivery industry expands.” “I’m impressed with every member of our team who believes in what we are doing and has helped us hit yet another milestone of 3 million commercial deliveries,” said Westgarth. “I also appreciate the investors who trust our vision and who are helping us get to the next phase of our journey.“ The company also listed the following achievements: Operating more than 1,700 robots daily, which it claimed is the world’s largest fleet of autonomous delivery robots Launching service at new college…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.23
February 28, 2022
…another to perform a wider range of tasks and gain higher value from the automation investment. As companies reap the benefits of automation, they continue to see new opportunities, from the receiving dock, through the manufacturing floor, to the warehouse and shipping. With enhanced performance, security, and interoperability, the lines between traditional systems and AMRs will continue to blur. Ongoing labor, supply chain, and productivity challenges will only increase the demand for affordable, efficient automation technologies. And while AMRs may represent a young industry, technology advancements and trends such as these are helping drive explosive growth in both capabilities and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.27
February 28, 2022
…consolidating data from IoT devices and applications, organizations can gain new insights to improve efficiencies while providing end users with an engaging digital experience, said Zyter. 5G necessary for digital transformation 5G private networks offer significant advantages over today’s Wi-Fi and public 5G networks, according to Qualcomm and Zyter. To fully support digital transformation efforts, modern businesses and organizations need a higher-bandwidth, lower-latency network that can potentially support thousands of devices and data-intensive applications, they said. In addition, current Wi-Fi and 5G public networks offer limited network management capabilities, the partners said. Businesses need the ability to allocate bandwidth to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.70
February 25, 2022
…deployment in confined spaces and increasing productivity. GoFa cobot gains lifting capacity ABB said its new six-axis GoFa CRB 15000 supports the growing demand for collaborative robots that can handle heavier payloads to enhance productivity and flexibility. Such cobots have features to enable them to operate alongside human workers with the space and expense associated with safety cages for increased flexibility and efficiency, it said. The GoFa is designed for easy programming, said ABB. Users can use lead-through programming, an arm-side interface, and ABB’s new Wizard software. Based on simple graphical blocks, Wizard is intended to make it easy for…
