Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.88
April 12, 2021
RightHand Robotics Inc., which makes data-driven, autonomous systems for order fulfillment, today announced its RightPick 3 item-handling robot. The Somerville, Mass.-based company made the announcement during the ProMat DX virtual event for material handling. RightHand Robotics (RHR) said its intelligent picking platform provides flexible and scalable automation for predictable e-commerce order fulfillment. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT with the intention of applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world grasping problems. “We relaunched our site in January,” noted Vince Martinelli, head of product and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.56
May 16, 2023
…year, now is a good time to assess current robotics trends. From venture capital constraints to ChatGPT, Dr. Bernard Casse, founder and CEO of RIOS Intelligent Machines Inc., has experience and first-hand observations from recent events. RIOS said it is leading the charge in re-industrializing America and transforming aging industries into the smart factories of the future powered by robotics and artificial intelligence. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company both exhibited and presented at ProMat 2023. Dr. Casse shared with Robotics 24/7 a compelling vision of a future where robotics and automation are the driving forces of economic progress, even amid…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.36
March 12, 2020
…setting at a Quiet Logistics e-fulfillment distribution center. Locus Robotics, the startup company founded by Bruce Welty and Mike Johnson, was still more concept than commercial product, but even then, Welty envisioned a multi-billion-dollar business for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in the warehouse. A little over a year later, I had the opportunity to watch another first: a mobile piece-picking robot from IAM Robotics at work at Rochester Drug’s distribution center in New York. While the two robots were filling orders in very different ways, what they shared was integration: In both instances, the robots were integrated with a warehouse…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.31
March 20, 2022
…it needed to address integration with the help of SVT Robotics. “This was a strategic initiative for our company,” said Laura Adams, vice president of technology, engineering systems, and solutions (TES) at CJ Logistics. “In this particular building, we wanted to deploy several technologies that CJ Logistics is using on a global basis. But no single provider could provide it all, so we needed a partner that had industry knowledge, had experience building integration points, and could integrate with our system.” With a heritage extending back 90 years, CJ Logistics was formed from the 2013 merger of CJ Korea Express,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.30
April 07, 2023
…time. With the introduction of new automated technologies, especially robotics, the challenges to integration are back in the spotlight. Operators don’t want to just drop a new technology into an existing process. Instead, they want to combine technologies to create new and better processes. It’s a reason that the theme at Trew’s booth was “orchestrating” systems. Enabling integration was the whole premise behind SVT Robotics, which made the live integration of automation components the centerpiece of its booth and was the company I heard mentioned more often than any other. But it was also the subject of much of Softeon's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.07
June 17, 2022
…and materials handling. Automate offered a varied mix of robotics companies In my two days at Automate, that momentum was visible in the solid attendance at the event as well as the number and variety of exhibitors. By variety, I especially mean more AMR vendors with larger booths, compared with past Automate events. Yes, the biggest exhibit spaces tended to be from major robotic arm providers such as FANUC, Universal Robots, KUKA, and others, but mobile robots were to be found at 20-plus booths, not just a handful. Then there were major, diversified technology providers such as ABB, Teradyne, or…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.98
March 22, 2020
…you’re buying confidence in throughput.” Yaro Tenzer, co-founder, RightHand Robotics A few Modex’s ago, I wrote a column titled It’s All About The Software, a theme I repeated following Promat 2015. It could be that I’m just not that imaginative a guy, or, the proverbial dog stuck on a bone. But at Modex 2020, I was struck once again by just how software is driving our industry today. It was especially true talking to robotics solutions providers. On the first day of the show, for instance, I stopped by 6 River Systems’ booth to learn about their wall to wall…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.94
March 11, 2021
…the customer.” The money has been pouring into DC-focused robotics and AI startups in recent years, with funding coming not only from some larger investment entities, but also smaller firms focused on logistics and robotics innovators. Some industrial companies also have established investment arms, notes Sidell, so multiple sources of capital are available, not just the big venture capital or “VCs” who typically fund consumer-focused startups. Executives with startups in robotics and AI cite multiple reasons for all the growth. The technology itself has advanced rapidly in recent years, and price points for the sensors and hardware have come down.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.92
March 28, 2023
…MHI. [Editor's note: Peerless Media, the parent organization of Robotics 24/7 and Modern Materials Handling, is a partner of MHI.] Looking back on the industry changes since 2019, some challenges persist. Labor availability remains a core driver for technology adoption, as reaffirmed by MHI’s “Annual Industry Report” released at ProMat. This year’s report and survey found that hiring and retaining qualified workers remained the top industry challenges, followed closely by issues like supply chain disruption, out-of-stock situations, and rising customer demands. It’s been a tumultuous few years since that last live ProMat, dominated first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.86
June 26, 2023
…robots (AMRs), automated lift trucks, piece-picking and goods-to-person systems, robotic putwalls, and even shuttles in an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). While they can all operate in the same facility, they don’t typically interface with or talk to one another. They are islands of automation. That’s a blast from the past that wasn’t a compliment in the 1980s and 1990s, either. Furthermore, there’s the matter of pacing and sharing the workload across those robots so store shipments can be made on schedule. Quite simply, how do they get the work done? Good old-fashioned inventory management is both part of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.36
May 03, 2022
…Okabe, a project manager and production engineer at SoftBank Robotics, and a member of the team that designed the highly automated 600,000-sq.-ft. facility in Ichikawa City. Part of that vision includes the development of a facility where a limited number of people are primarily there for maintenance and supervision, not warehouse processes. They’re not there yet. When the facility first adopted automation, inbound receiving and outbound shipping were still manual. In addition, oversized and fragile items that couldn’t be handled by automation were stored, picked, and packed using conventional process. Still, Okabe estimated that more than 50% of the overall…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.18
May 14, 2021
…enterprise,” said Daniel Theobald, founder and CEO of Vecna Robotics, whose Pivotal muilti-agent AI is designed to orchestrate multiple systems. “Robots need to be able to respond in real time to workflow changes. If the entire system is not reactive, you're leaving tremendous value on the table.” Instances of various types of robots from multiple vendors are still relatively rare—most simply hand off goods or materials to one another rather than truly coexist on the same floor. Still, several third-party competitors are starting to offer software and services to relieve operators of the complexity of managing such mixed environments. In…
