Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.57
…Markets. Meituan's e-commerce rivals include Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, and JD.com. All of them are actively developing delivery robots and drones or are partnering with autonomous systems providers. Other companies working on delivery robots include Daxbot, Eliport, Postmates, Refraction AI, Tortoise, and Unity Drive Innovation. Kiwibot last week launched Version 4.0 of its eponymous robot and partnered with Segway. Chipotle invested in Nuro last month, and Domino's Pizza is testing deliveries with the Nuro R2 in Houston. In January, Starship Technologies raised $14 million and added more college campuses to the locations it serves. The company said it has completed 1…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.63
…and secure supply chain.Digital Transformation Solution Provider Award – JD.com End User Award – GE Appliances JD Logistics, an independent business group under the JD.com umbrella, created its open platform for digital supply chain. The idea is to provide companies of all sizes to run a digital supply chain even without internal resources. This comprehensive and integrated supply chain service spans from procurement to physical distribution leveraging intelligent planning, production and supply chain across digital technologies including 5G. Digital transformation at GE Appliances is not just a big picture approach. It is comprehensive, and required just 18 months to go…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.92
…Other major automated guided vehicle (AGV) developers like Quicktron, JD.com, Geek, and Grey Orange are deploying thousands of robots yearly, while autonomous mobile robot (AMR) developers are just beginning to scale up. Brain Corp. has deployed 5,000 systems primarily in retail, and BlueBotics has deployed some 2,000 robots for intralogistics in and around the supply chain. Meanwhile MiR, an AMR company acquired by Teradyne in 2018, is beginning to achieve growth rates in excess of the company’s other robotics acquisition of major cobot developer, Universal Robots. The distinction between AGVs and AMRs can be contested, but AMRs do not require…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
…also being used by large retailers such as Amazon, JD and Walmart to pack and sort items for warehouse automation. Automated guided vehicles (AGV) are now being deployed in warehouses as autonomous forklifts, carts and pallet movers. Recent developments like Shopify acquiring 6 River Systems for $450m and Teradyne acquiring AutoGuide Mobile Robots & Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) for $165m & $272M respectively are the outcomes behind this disruptive technology in the warehouses and logistics. Apart this, there have been some major M&A like KUKA (Midea Group) acquiring Swisslog, KION acquiring Dematic and Egemin, Toyota acquiring Vanderlande and Bastian Solutions,…