Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.19
September 20, 2021
…perfectly solved everything under 40 lb. While Amazon and Shopify bought their own robotics companies, if you order from a place that sells only, say, bracelets, it's obvious. However, most e-commerce retailers have eaches, samples, and cases—an array of products that need to be picked, with physical size and weight that vary widely.” “The model that Locus uses could be extended to heavier-payload robots,” he said. “Instead of picking socks to a tote, you could pick a case of soup to a big robot, building a mixed pallet as you go. By the time a pallet gets to outbound, you…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.21
December 02, 2019
…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, and Murata Machinery acquiring AGVE AB as well. Deploying last-mile delivery robots and drones Last-mile service has been identified as key differentiator amongst competitors, from renowned retailers to local businesses. Drones…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.06
July 12, 2021
…Such brands typically use e-commerce software from vendors like Shopify or Big Commerce, but they don’t want to get into the business of building out their own distribution network or managing multiple 3PLs. They do want analytics and insight into inventory strategy and how that matches up with their demand patterns, said Gulati. “They can monitor order-fulfillment trends and how much inventory they have left, and also benefit from analytics,” he said. “With our analytics, they can see where their customers are, and then the software recommends the best fulfillment center locations for them to use in our network to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.05
December 02, 2019
…been prominent investments and acquisitions this year, e.g., by Shopify and Amazon. Overall, we forecast that more than 200k robots could be sold within the 2020-2030 period (this figure includes those that can perform picking of regularly or irregularly shaped items). Picking mobile robots to dominate AMRs? Picking or grasping technology is an essential component of warehouse automation. Today, many firms and research groups are deploying deep learning to enable robots to rapidly pick novel and irregularly-shaped items with high success rates. To this end, various strategies to data collection/annotation and to DNN training are being followed. A limited number…
