Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.57
April 21, 2022
…centers around the world still operating manually, according to Honeywell Intelligrated, there is still plenty of room for automation. Rapyuta Robotics Co., which has developed collaborative pick-assist robots and cloud-based software for warehouses, yesterday said it has raised JPY 6.4 billion ($51 million U.S.) in Series C funding. The Tokyo-based company said it plans to use the financing to grow its staff and presence in the logistics market. “Rapyuta Robotics will further its mission to make robots more attainable to global logistics users and to empower lives with new cloud robotics solutions,“ said Gajan Mohanarajah, Ph.D, co-founder, and CEO of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.63
April 20, 2022
…million in Series B funding from Material Impact, Scale Venture Partners, and Calibrate Ventures. Past investors include ABB, FANUC, Honeywell, Tyson, and Yamaha.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.68
March 25, 2022
…have posed serious challenges for warehouses and distribution centers. Honeywell International Inc. yesterday announced a strategic collaboration with OTTO Motors to provide automation throughout North America for help with labor-intensive tasks, such as moving carts, pallets, or totes. Honeywell said the partnership enables its customers to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve safety by deploying OTTO Motors’ autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in their facilities. “Supply chains continue to be stressed by staffing shortages and consumer demands driving expectations of speedy and accurate fulfillment,” said Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Intelligrated. “Tackling the more dynamic, unstructured environments of today’s distribution centers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
March 25, 2022
…well as more than 80 integrator partners worldwide, including Honeywell Intelligrated, Matthews Automation Solutions, and Gray Solutions. The company's systems are also now available through a network of leading material handling systems dealers in North America, including Eastern Lift Truck Co. and Toyota Material Handling Systems of Atlanta. “With more than 45 years of experience, Toyota Material Handling Systems has helped warehouse and manufacturing facilities find and deploy the best solutions in material handling,” said Zach Smith, vice president at Toyota Material Handling Systems. “When the team brought OTTO Motors to demo at our facility for the first time, I…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.86
March 11, 2022
…pre-money valuation to $1.7 billion. New investors such as Honeywell and existing ones, like Atlantia, Whysol, and btov Partners, also participated. “We will continue to promote urban air mobility, a fast-growing business that can help reduce emissions and traffic in large cities,” said Elisabetta de Bernardi, investment director for Europe at Atlantia. “Our successful first signing of Series E brings phenomenal new investors on board, with further in the due diligence stage,” said Stefan Klocke, chairman of Volocopter’s advisory board. “This private funding round allows us to stay focused on our mission to bring sustainable urban air mobility to life.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.02
February 15, 2022
…LTD. are taking advantage of them as it builds out 3D models of construction projects. In December, InfiniDome Ltd., Honeywell Aerospace, and Easy Aerial Inc. announced the Robust Navigation System for drones, which integrates GPS anti-jamming technology, a radar velocity system, and an inertial navigation system. The global drone inspection and monitoring market generated $6.44 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $35.11 billion by 2030, according to Allied Market Research.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.68
February 05, 2022
…said Laura Bickle, senior offering manager of WES at Honeywell. “WES is smarter in coordinating with each subsystem and decision point. It makes decisions in real-time, allowing for intervention and optimization throughout the fulfillment process.” “WES enables last-minute decisions that would increase order-fulfillment efficiency in the warehouse,” she added. “Honeywell’s WMS and WES have been tightly integrated to play to the strengths of both systems, with WMS used to plan the order fulfillment and WES executing it, while adjusting to various inventory exceptions that happen in a warehouse every day.” Warehouse execution systems won't necessarily manage all inventory details at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.70
December 31, 2021
…to increase,” said Thomas Evans, chief technology officer at Honeywell Robotics. “In the past year, we’ve seen an increase in the demand for automation, particularly around robots that use machine learning [ML] and artificial intelligence.” “Quantifying the impact and improvements can most easily be estimated by the efficiencies and increased scope of robotics in autonomous pick-and-place tasks,” he added. “The improvements most readily tied to increasing the number of products and SKU variations a robot system can visualize and handle in warehouse and DC [distribution center] operations.” In addition, Thomas explained, “improvements are made when AI solutions are exposed to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.10
December 28, 2021
…parts is driving this demand, said the company. Velo3D has been a strategic partner to innovators such as SpaceX, Honeywell, Honda, Chromalloy, and Lam Research. It was also named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. In March, Velo3D announced plans to merge with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corp. and be publicly traded.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.41
December 07, 2021
…defense, homeland security, and other security applications. InfiniDome Ltd., Honeywell Aerospace, and Easy Aerial Inc. yesterday announced the Robust Navigation System, which integrates GPS anti-jamming technology, a radar velocity system, and an inertial navigation system. The companies claimed that the technology is the first resilient system allowing drones to not only safely operate, but also successfully complete their missions, even in GPS-challenged or fully denied environments. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), from a 20-lb. Class 1 multicopter to a 150-lb. Class 3 fixed-wing drone, rely almost entirely on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for the most basic navigation functionality, particularly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.45
November 21, 2021
Honeywell International Inc. last week announced that it plans to build a research and development facility for its Honeywell Intelligrated warehouse automation business to meet growing demand for technologies that enable faster, more accurate supply chains. The new testing and training facility will have more than 150,000 sq. ft. (14,000 sq. m) and be built on Honeywell's campus in Brno, Czech Republic. It is already home to Honeywell's R&D hub for Central and Eastern Europe. The company said it expects to open the new center in mid-2022. “For businesses and consumers alike, expectations regarding e-commerce and logistics have changed rapidly,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.14
November 14, 2021
…upon with the customer or exceed it,” he said. Honeywell invests in software for smart robots Pick-and-place automation is very software-driven, using machine learning (ML) smarts to enable the solution to adjust to variations in SKUs or packaging. That means the efficacy of pick-and-place robots in the real world rests heavily on software expertise. To support this, Honeywell Robotics has invested in software-related “building blocks” for robotics, said Thomas Evans, CTO of the unit of Honeywell Intelligrated. For example, Honeywell’s Smart Flexible Depalletizer, launched in September, features a robotic arm and AMRs from partners to transport pallets. The robotics control…
