Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.29
May 22, 2019
…of RightHand Robotics. “Our companies’ advanced technologies will provide transformative solutions to a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, apparel, grocery, and more. With the growing demands of e-commerce order fulfillment, we can solve our customers’ needs for flexible and reliable technology, with real productivity and efficiency results.”
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 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 8.67
April 08, 2019
…(MPicks) autonomously across many industries, including e-commerce, retail, pharmaceuticals, grocery, and more. Building on this experience, RightPick2 sets a new standard for speed and dependability. Being able to reliably pick a wide range of items at a high rate helps distribution and fulfillment centers improve overall customer experience, making them more competitive in the global marketplace.” RightHand Robotics has been chosen as a finalist for an MHI Innovation Award, and will be demonstrating RightPick2 at the company’s booth (#S2397) at ProMat. RightPick systems will also be running live in RightHand’s partner booths: Kuecker (#S3912A), EuroSort (#S3627), Tompkins Robotics (#S4250), and…
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 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 Companies & Businesses, with a score of 22.72
December 19, 2018
RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots that can be complex to set up and are singly purposed, RHR solutions are simple to integrate and adaptable to improve the utilization of many different customer workflows, such as sorting batch-picked items, picking items from an ASRS, inducting items to a belt sorter, and order quality assurance.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.92
October 04, 2018
…Companies in Taunton, Mass., started out as a family-owned grocery business in Boston’s North End. When prohibition was repealed in 1933, the Martignetti family received the very first beverage alcohol retail license ever to be issued in Massachusetts. Today, Martignetti holds the distinction of being the largest wine and spirits wholesaler in New England. Two years ago, the company built a 700,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, LEED-certified headquarters location in Taunton consolidating all of its office, sales and warehouse operations in one location. Roughly half of the firm’s inventory is managed internally, while the remainder is vendor-owned. In liquor control states like New…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.20
May 17, 2018
…bar code scanning outside of point of sale in grocery and retail was in October 1971 at Buick’s Plant 10. “I carried the 50-pound scanner into Buick to give them the demonstration,” Hill recalls. Hill has not rested on his laurels. Still a director at St. Onge, he recently attended a conference on automatic identification that brought together more than 400 experts to Google’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. When he looks at the new mechanical and technology solutions coming to market, he sees the seeds planted back in the 1970s and 1980s now bearing fruit. “We’ve finally come to where…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.92
April 10, 2018
…eCommerce order fulfillment. With RightPick, businesses can reduce costs and improve reliability of the fulfillment process for pharmaceuticals, electronics, grocery, apparel, and countless other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots, RightPick handles hundreds of thousands of different items using a machine learning backend, coupled with an intelligent gripper that works in concert with industry-leading robotic arms.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.25
April 09, 2018
…says Tom Galluzzo, IAM’s founder. “We see opportunities in grocery, health and beauty, pharma, small electronics and apparel because of the items that are picked.” The pushback to a fully-autonomous robot has not been the ROI. “The ROI isn’t why people are first interested innovation,” Galluzzo says. “With the compound growth rate of e-comm and the labor issue, a fully-autonomous robot goes right to the heart of the labor issue.” Rather, the barrier is that a fully autonomous solution, even one that can work in an existing infrastructure without much in the way of modification, requires a real commitment to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.93
April 03, 2018
…RightPick is a combined hardware and software solution that picks individual items for e-commerce order fulfillment for pharmaceuticals, electronics, grocery, apparel, and other industries. Unlike traditional factory robots, RightPick handles thousands of different items using a machine learning backend coupled with an intelligent gripper that works in concert with robotic arms. Vecna Robotics and RightHand Robotics will be showcasing each other’s technologies at MODEX in Atlanta from April 9 through 12. Vecna Robotics will exhibit at booth B4987 and RightHand Robotics will be at Booth B4087.
