Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.83
…has signed a multi-year strategic deal with micro-fulfillment company Fabric. It will integrate robots and software with Instacart's proprietary technology to create new e-commerce services for retail partners and a faster, easier online grocery shopping experience for customers, said the partners. “Instacart is proud to serve as the chief ally to retailers during a time when e-commerce in North America is poised for accelerated adoption,” stated Mark Schaaf, chief technology officer of Instacart. “Our next-gen fulfillment initiative combines our robust technology suite and dedicated community of shoppers with robotics solutions to give retailers even more ways to serve their customers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
…tapping various technology partners, including Alert Innovation, Dematic, and Fabric. Tel Aviv, Israel-based Fabric also runs an automated MFC for Super-pharm, and it recently announced a second MFC project with the drugstore chain and health and beauty retailer. “Hyper-local” is a somewhat broader term centering on the need to position inventory very close to customer concentrations for rapid fulfillment. If the aim of a merchant is to quickly establish fulfillment reach and enable one- or two-day deliveries, that brings in other trends like providers of on-demand warehousing services. Think of the service-level needed as a key demarcation point. Hyper-local fulfillment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.00
…us to use certain materials, such as plastics or fabrics, to make our system more flexible, lightweight, and cost-effective. It's only a few thousand dollars, compared with tens or hundreds of thousands.” “These materials also enable us to rapidly prototype and innovate, unlike traditional prototyping and 3D printing, which are time-consuming and expensive,” he added. “This enables us to tailor the system to human anatomy and more easily scale up.” “The knee actuator transmits torque for movement,” he explained. “One area of customization is optimizing fit for comfort. We can take a user's measurements for the thigh and lap components…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.44
…simultaneously improving visibility. “As demands expand the scope and scale of potential services, 3PLs must weave deeper into the fabric of a shipper’s supply chain,” she concludes.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.50
…12.4TB per second in bandwidth. Six NVIDIA NVSwitch interconnect fabrics with third-generation NVIDIA NVLink technology for 4.8TB per second of bidirectional bandwidth. Nine Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR 200Gb per second network interfaces, offering a total of 3.6Tb per second of bidirectional bandwidth. Mellanox In-Network Computing and network acceleration engines such as RDMA, GPUDirect and Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) to enable the highest performance and scalability. NVIDIA DGX software stack, which includes optimized software for AI and data science workloads, delivering maximized performance and enabling enterprises to achieve a faster return on their investment in AI infrastructure. A single…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.32
…deliver goods rapidly. Companies such as Takeoff Technologies and Fabric (Commonsense Robotics) are focused on automated micro-fulfillment centers by bringing automated storage system, floor-based free roaming robots, bin racking structure, and a lift/load handling device within the racking structure. Recently, Takeoff Technologies announced that it has placed a $150 million order with Knapp, would allow for a 50-site deployment of its robotic micro-pick centers. Even Dematic who is pioneer for warehouse automation solutions, is extending its solutions for Micro-Fulfillment with Dematic Multishuttle and Goods-to-Person picking solutions. Blockchain for the digital supply chain Blockchain in supply chain establishes provenance of products,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.87
…new world of product expectations, driven by a digital fabric, a super-agile supply chain and a crowd of end users who want parts as fast as possible. Perry points out that since the industrial revolution, manufacturing companies have sold and mass-produced products that are the same design. That was then. This is now, though. “The problem with that model is that people don’t want exactly the same product,” says Perry. “Today, more companies than ever are able to market to niche audiences—with a small production volume—because cloud fabrication is now possible. And for the future, it’s the holy grail for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.69
…have surfaced. One such view anticipates an inclusive, global fabric. “We expect the system to consist of many smart sensors that interact locally with each other—we call this the ‘extreme edge level’—but also with multiple edge devices that interact with each other and with local cloud servers, eventually up to the real global cloud server,” says Rudy Lauwereins, vice president of digital and user-centric solutions at IMEC. Other industry leaders envision a system with more limited interaction between smart sensors and the cloud. “Having been extensively involved in fingerprint and heart-based sensing/access control, I can add that there is a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.93
…networking, the networking and computing will become one continuous fabric,” he said. What followed was the announcement that NVIDIA was buying Mellanox, an interconnect solution providers, for $6.9 billion. Mellanox has been a long-time partner of NVIDIA. With this acquisition, NVIDIA gains the ability to engineer advantageous interconnects directly into its GPU-accelerated supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. “Datacenters in the future will be architected as giant compute engines with tens of thousands of compute nodes, designed holistically with their interconnects for optimal performance,” the company explains in its press release. “With Mellanox, NVIDIA will optimize datacenter-scale workloads across the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.22
…had led to the development of barriers comprised of fabric, plastics and other new materials—and a growing awareness that safety barriers are no longer a one-size-fits-all proposition,” says Troy Bergum, product manager at Rite-Hite. “Safety and facility managers need to become more sophisticated in their evaluations of barrier needs, analyzing location-specific traffic patterns and other issues, rather than just defaulting to steel that is heavy enough to withstand 10,000 pounds at 4 mph.” Dock seals: In addition, another means of protection—dock seals—are also being replaced with new alternatives, as they do not currently have the longevity they once did, primarily…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 30.59
…materials. They can be manufactured to an extremely high tolerances. They do not show stretch like a chain or fabric belt. In short, they can be a superior way to convey motion.