Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.20
July 16, 2020
Founded in 2014, Kindred Powered by Ocado Group is a robotics and artificial intelligence company contributing to the workforce of the future through human-robot collaboration. The company said its cutting-edge CORE/AutoGrasp reinforcement learning platform is the foundation of its proprietary technologies, including AI-enabled SORT and INDUCT robots. Kindred added that its robots continuously improve, becoming faster and more accurate over time so clients can automate e-commerce fulfillment and supply chain operations while increasing throughput. The company is co-located in San Francisco and Toronto and is part of U.K.-based Ocado Group PLC.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.17
October 20, 2022
At ROSCon 2022, NVIDIA announced the newest Isaac ROS software release, Developer Preview (DP) 2. This release includes new cloud– and edge-to-robot task management and monitoring software for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets as well as additional features for ROS 2 developers. NVIDIA Isaac ROS consists of individual packages (GEMs) and complete pipelines (NITROS) for hardware-accelerated performance. In addition to performance improvements, the new release adds the following functionality: Mission Dispatch and Client: An open-source CPU package to assign and monitor tasks from a fleet management system to the robot. Mission Dispatch is a cloud-native microservice that can be integrated…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.16
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 Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.11
August 12, 2021
Berkshire Grey said it helps customers radically change the essential way they do business by delivering game-changing technology that combines AI and robotics to automate fulfillment, supply chain, and logistics operations. The company said its systems can transform pick, pack, move, store, organize, and sort operations to deliver competitive advantage for enterprises serving today’s connected consumers. Berkshire Grey's customers include Global 100 retailers and logistics service providers.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.07
September 09, 2019
Automating Fulfillment Automation is the way of tomorrow, but how does it fit into your business' fulfillment strategy today? Before we answer this question, let's first refresh on what a fulfillment center is. In the not-so-distant past, fulfillment centers included a warehouse fueled by human workforces unloading containers, organizing inventories on shelves, packing orders received online and shipping them out for delivery. Many eCommerce merchants who don't have the physical space to store and ship products depend on this service as a lifeline for their growing businesses. Top Benefits of an Automated Distribution Center After several years of improvements in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.05
March 17, 2023
There will be plenty of discussions about automating supply chains at ProMat 2023, but many operations are just getting started with robotics. GreyOrange Inc. yesterday said it will share automation strategies, live demonstrations, and expert networking opportunities in Chicago next week. “At GreyOrange, we’ve been solving challenges for the world’s leading brands for more than a decade,” stated Samay Kohli, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange. “Preparing for both upcoming obstacles and scaling needs keeps our customers agile and pivot-ready when circumstances change,” he added. “GreyMatter, our multiagent orchestration platform, gives customers the freedom to choose the ‘best-of-breed’ fulfillment technology that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.03
November 23, 2020
Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced that it has passed the quarter-billion (250,000,000) units picked volume level heading into the 2020 holiday peak season. Locus robots now pick more than ten-thousand units every 15 minutes, a 263% increase in units picked vs. the same period last year. Locus’s 250 million pick milestone reflects the rapidly growing volumes at customer sites throughout this pandemic-impacted year, with some customers’ daily orders often reaching Black Friday levels. Across the installed base, Locus is now regularly exceeding volume levels of 1 million picks per day. “Our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.98
April 14, 2023
OPLOG, an Istanbul, Turkey-based fulfillment company, announced yesterday that it has opened a new warehouse in Leighton Buzzard, England that has been decked out with robots. Founded in 2013, OPLOG said it enables e-commerce brands to operate in various markets without physical boundaries through its international fulfilment network. To date, the company has raised €11m ($12 million USD) in funding and employs over 350 staff including 100 engineers and developers. “Bringing OPLOG to the UK marks a major step in our company's journey, so I am extremely excited to launch our fulfilment centre in the UK, and I am super…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.97
April 24, 2020
Robotics are being applied at a rapid pace inside our warehouse, distribution center and fulfillment operations around the U.S.—and according to recent reports, there’s a good chance they’re coming to your facility. In fact, the latest forecast shows that shipments of logistics and warehousing robots will grow from 194,000 units in 2018 to 938,000 units annually by 2022. The labor crunch and the ability of AMRs to offload manual travel are central to this growth, but there are other benefits to robotics besides reducing the labor requirement. Today, vendors tout the synergies of human-to-robot collaboration, ease of system scalability, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.92
February 16, 2024
Warehouse management system (WMS) provider Softeon recently announced a case study on systems it deployed for global supply chain provider Vantiva, formerly a part of Technicolor. From start to finish, the WMS deployment time was three months or less, including Vantiva’s initial user acceptance testing (UAT) as well as UATs for each of Vantiva’s transitioning customers, said Softeon, Softeon said its deployments with Vantiva have resulted in faster new customer onboarding and fulfillment times, leading to more flexible, composable, scalable, and efficient operations. “The service we’ve been able to provide for Vantiva since 2019 is an example of Softeon’s commitment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.91
July 18, 2021
No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here—and they have created two possible extremes for the future of agriculture and its impacts on the environment, argued agricultural economist Thomas Daum in a “Science & Society” article published this week in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. One is a utopia, where fleets of small, intelligent robots farm in harmony with nature to produce diverse, organic crops. The other is a dystopia in which large, tractor-like robots subdue the landscape through heavy machinery and artificial chemicals. Daum described the utopian scenario as a mosaic of rich, green fields, streams,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.87
October 26, 2020
Kindred today announced a partnership agreement with VARGO to incorporate its artificial intelligence (AI) pick and place robotic solutions with VARGO’s warehouse execution system (WES) to enhance both parties’ solutions for retail and e-commerce fulfillment. Kindred has been working with Hilliard, Ohio-based VARGO since 2017 and partnered on e-commerce fulfillment system design and integration for Gap Inc. Gap has deployed more than 100 Kindred SORT robotic systems in combination with VARGO’s WES. “This partnership between VARGO and Kindred further demonstrates the commitment of both of our companies to bring strategic and innovative distribution solutions to the industry that solve real…
