Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.14
October 11, 2017
…channel but, for many years, the inclusion of gasoline, groceries, and automobile sales in U.S. retail sales numbers masked the true extent of eCommerce penetration. Download Now! Global E-Commerce Logistics 2016 The report contains Transport Intelligence’s bespoke market size and forecasting data, as well as overviews of some of the world’s leading e-commerce businesses, such as Alibaba and Amazon. Download Now! Amazon’s Move into Delivery Logistics Many industry players and experts are waiting anxiously to see what innovations Amazon will come up with next – and above all, whether Amazon will enter into delivery logistics under its own banner. Download…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.04
June 16, 2023
…center showed the status of robot fleets for retailers, grocery chains, industrial parts and healthcare suppliers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs). When Exotec's robots encounter problems, they can be solved remotely in most cases, said Beau Martin, manager of Exotec's Service Center. However, the failure of an entire unit or an unexpected problem, like a gallon of sticky grape juice exploding at the top of a rack, will occasionally require more direct human intervention, he said. There is typically one technician onsite per Exotec deployment. Panel discusses customer challenges Robotics 24/7 moderated a panel on “How Automation Is Evolving to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.97
October 12, 2021
…up their businesses.” Pestoni said he could see orchestration becoming important for industries such as logistics, construction, hospitals, and grocery, as their fleets of robots also grow. “Bits don't care about pesky human borders, as we've seen with a lot of technologies,” he said. “We've now come full circle, with bits driving atoms or the use of software to control the physical world. The possibilities are endless.” InOrbit is participating in the Association for Advancing Automation's (A3's) Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference this week in Memphis.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.94
November 11, 2019
…on same-day delivery, as well as online ordering of groceries, which is going to further drive up the need for automation. Generally, companies are interested in using AMRs because they need to reduce the cost of order picking, and make order fulfillment more accurate to reduce the rate of consumer returns.” Bots as helpers For companies deploying AMRs in DCs, robotics is often seen as a way to make the human labor you can secure more productive, rather than try to run a fully automated DC. That makes mobile robots more like co-workers than gear that is going to “automate”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.94
July 12, 2017
…industries with the most readily robot-pickable items include pharmaceutical, grocery, and health and beauty. Apparel, with its deformable products and irregular packaging, is on the more challenging side of the spectrum. Tenzer suggests you consider “three Rs” when evaluating robotics: range of objects, reliability and rate. Depending on the SKUs, how items are presented to the robot and overall system design, the rates of solutions across the industry might vary from 500 to 2,400 picks per hour. The range, reliability and rate of some applications are more agreeable to robotic picking, especially where a human adds no value. Tenzer outlines…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.69
March 15, 2022
…to add more features in the coming months, including grocery and food delivery, arranging in-home service providers, and more. “Older adult populations are often limited by barriers to care, which not only leads to feelings of isolation, but can also negatively affect long-term health outcomes,” said Caitlin Donovan, global head of Uber Health. “That is why we are proud to work with Intuition Robotics to keep seniors healthy and encourage independence and confidence.” “Our work will allow seniors to stay connected to their community—whether that be a doctor's appointment or a church group,” she said. “At Uber Health, we want…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.68
February 21, 2019
…bought up units for an imminent expansion of their grocery shopping service. Businesses who lack internal storage capacity are finding warehouse providers full, or raising the rates they charge for temporary storage. As a result, many are having to optimize their existing storage spaces to host more racking, or are installing entirely new storage systems. Modular, high-density racking is best suited to this kind of storage, with the capacity to host pallets as well as smaller or more awkwardly shaped items. For some businesses, this has proved to be a blessing in disguise. The sudden need to reconsider warehouse usage,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.67
September 26, 2019
…Dolan, Business Insider, May 10, 2018. “The future of grocery: e-commerce, digital technology and changing shopping preferences around the world”, Neilson.com, April 2015. “The race is on: 43% of consumer expect 'much faster' deliveries in 2018”, Marie Griffin, Retail Touch Points, April 2, 2018. “Real estate costs through the roof”, Emily Atkins, Inside Logistics, May 10, 2018. About the Author Greg Braun is a co-founder of C3 Solutions and is responsible for the marketing and sales department. Greg has over 25 years experience in the transportation industry of which the last 15 have been focused on yard and dock management.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.65
July 03, 2022
…adjusting. In addition, because Witron works closely with the grocery industry, it can also track every product in its system back to the purchase order, as well as expiration dates and whether its fresh or frozen. This ensures the products meet the palletizer in the right condition for shipping. Depalletizing and ROI While palletizing is making strides, it’s the older sibling to depalletizing, which is now coming on strong in manufacturing and warehousing. Honeywell Intelligrated, which has been in the palletizing space for 20 years, has been evolving the equipment over time. “It started with fixed, static inline palletizers that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.62
December 02, 2019
…Fund and has partnered with Kroger to deliver the groceries and with Domino’s to deliver the pizzas. KiwiBot is providing similar services for the university campus. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest colleges to welcome the food delivery robots, KiwiBot. Drones as enablers for the future of logistics Companies such as DHL and Amazon are testing drones for last mile delivery. DHL has already tested Parcelcopter, a Microdrones md4-1000 UAV to deliver a package. Boeing has come up with unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo air vehicle (CAV) that could…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.61
May 15, 2019
…unique,” he points out. “The needs of a direct-to-consumer grocery operation are going to be very different from the needs of an apparel operation, particularly around the warehousing environment itself, the number of SKUs, and the number of lines per order. These should all be factored into the decision-making process.” About the survey participants Thirty-three percent of this year’s survey respondents are running warehouses that are more than 250,000 square feet, while the average facility size across all respondents was 148,375 square feet. These facilities either serve as warehouses or DCs (36%), corporate headquarters (32%) or manufacturing plants (19%). Each…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.52
June 09, 2023
…for Kiva Systems while working at Webvan, an online grocery business that ceased operations in 2001. While working there as the director of business process in logistics, he took note of how inefficient their fulfillment process was. “After I had been there for six months, I looked through the cost of running the fulfillment center—70% of the cost was the human labor doing the picking and packing,” he said. “When I was studying the labor, 70% of their time was walking around.” Mountz noted when he multiplied those two numbers together, he found 49% of the company’s costs came from…
