Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.50
September 15, 2023
In today's fast-paced and competitive e-commerce landscape, efficient order fulfillment is a key driver of customer satisfaction. Solo Brands Inc. and Locus Robotics Corp. this week announced a strategic partnership. Solo will optimize and streamline its order-fulfillment operations with 16 artificial intelligence-powered autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, at its warehouse in Mexicali, Mexico. “We are excited to partner with Locus Robotics to revolutionize our order-fulfillment operations,” said Brett Kulesza, operations vice president of Solo Brands, in a release. “The integration of these advanced AMRs will not only increase the speed and accuracy of our order processing, but also empower our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.50
May 15, 2019
RightHand Robotics, a leader in integrated robotic piece-picking solutions, has announced its first put wall integration with Capacity LLC, a leading provider of technology-driven order fulfillment and e-commerce solutions. RightHand’s newest RightPick product platform will be integrated with existing warehouse material handling systems from Lightning Pick, a provider of light-directed and advanced order fulfillment systems. RightPick is an autonomous robotic piece-picking platform that handles the core task of picking and placing individual items as part of a wide range of workflows and processes in warehouse fulfillment operations. Initially released to support AS/RS tending and sorter induction, RightPick’s put wall offering…
Found in Robotics White Papers & Archives, with a score of 12.47
April 14, 2023
Under pressure to get as many shipments out the door as quickly and safely as possible, today's warehouses and distribution centers (DCs) need all the productivity and throughput that they can get. Short on labor, space, and other resources, these facilities are infusing more automation into their operations in order to do more with less. To maximize their investments in automated equipment, companies also need mezzanines and industrial work platforms that help preserve ground-level areas for time-sensitive activities. Available in both single- and multi-tiered variations, mezzanines and industrial work platforms add a second or third level to an existing facility.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.46
December 29, 2016
Amazon has been working on getting a drone delivery program off the ground for a while now, but some new patents show the company isn't out of wild ideas. As TechCrunch reports, Zoe Leavitt, an analyst for CB Insights, has discovered a recent Amazon patent for an “airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery” - i.e., a giant flying drone mothership zeppelin warehouse. The patent envisions the airborne fulfillment center (AFC) in the form of a giant airship, that would fly at high altitudes of around 45,000 feet in the air, and would then deploy individual drones…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.40
October 10, 2021
“Pain point.” That’s not a bad summary of reverse logistics these days. However, there doesn’t seem to be enough pain in reverse logistics to get many companies to fix their generally inadequate and manual processes. Instead, they continue to receive, review, reallocate, and repeat in the same awkward way. To begin, plenty of returns are out there. Industry estimates for conventional retail is 5% of purchases get returned. That number skyrockets to 25% to 30% for e-commerce. While the former might be manageable, the latter is clearly a deluge. And with a more than 40% increase in e-commerce sales since…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.39
August 11, 2024
LG Business Solutions USA opened its latest Business Innovation Center (BIC), a 3,600-square-foot showroom at LG Electronics’ North American headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The new center provides resellers, partners and customers with a one-stop technology showcase that demonstrates LG’s full portfolio of commercial technologies and wide-ranging business offerings. This newest location joins LG BICs in Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles. Walk-through experience for LG customers Designed as a walk-through experience, BIC visitors are welcomed by LG’s full line of CLOi autonomous mobile robots including CarryBot, GuideBot and ServeBot, alongside a wall-sized LG DVLED (direct-view light-emitting diode) display. “Our new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.36
October 21, 2021
Zebra Technologies Corp. today announced three new mobile robots and a new software package for order or batch picking. Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Zebra, which recently acquired Fetch Robotics Inc., said the new offerings will help it automate warehouse workflows. The new FlexShelf, FlexShelf Guide, and RollerTop Guide autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), along with the FetchCore software, are the first products released since the acquisition. Melonee Wise, founder and former CEO of Fetch Robotics and vice president of robotics automation at Zebra, replied to the following questions from Robotics 24/7 about the new offerings. Given that Zebra acquired Fetch in July, how…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.34
September 10, 2019
Earlier this week, Ottawa-based Shopify, a multi-channel commerce platform, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Waltham, Mass.-based 6 River Systems, a provider of collaborative warehouse solutions. The purchase price is $450 million, and the acquisition is expected to be made official in the fourth quarter. More than 130 6 River Systems employees will join Shopify as part of the acquisition. Established in 2015, 6 River Systems was founded by Jerome Dubois, Rylan Hamilton, and Chris Caciopppo, with Dubois and Hamilton previously serving on the executive team of Amazon Robotics, which was formerly known as Kiva Systems. 6…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.32
October 31, 2023
Promise Robotics, which is developing a industrial production platform for robotic construction and assembly, today announced that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding raised to date to $25 million. The Toronto-based company's stated mission is to enable the construction industry to harness automation to build more affordable and sustainable homes. Promise Robotics said it plans to use the funding to commercialize its platform and to continue expanding its intellectual property in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotic systems. The company claimed in a release that its proprietary, cloud-based software can manage the entire…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.28
September 18, 2017
Voodoo Robotics is an innovator in warehouse automation. Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and revolutionary warehouse automation products on the market. Based in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, the main hub for warehousing and distribution centers in the U.S., Voodoo Robotics currently offers unique solutions to help solve the problem of warehouse inventory management and order fulfillment.Voodoo Robotics is an innovator in warehouse automation. Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and revolutionary warehouse automation products on the market.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.24
October 03, 2024
Amazon officials were joined by state and local elected representatives to celebrate the construction of its new, state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center in the Town of Niagara, N.Y. The facility will be home to 1,000 local Amazon employees who will operate and work with the company’s newest robotics technology, delivering for customers in Western New York and beyond. The fulfillment center will expand Amazon’s operations and logistics network in New York, where there are more than 47,000 full- and part-time employees across the state. New robotics facility is the fourth in New York The five-story, 3.1-million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center is currently…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.21
December 07, 2021
Over the past two years, the boom in online shopping and labor challenges have increased demand for automated order fulfillment. Photoneo s.r.o. today announced $21 million in Series B funding. The Bratislava, Slovakia-based company said it plans to use its latest capital to accelerate its 3D sensor business and expand its Brightpick system for warehouses and so-called dark stores. “We identified a gap in the order-fulfillment sector,” said Jan Zizka, co-founder and CEO of Photoneo. “We combined our unique technologies to develop a first-of-its-kind, end-to-end solution for fully automated fulfillment centers.” “The potential of this next-gen warehouse automation technology is…
