Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.05
February 23, 2022
…fast, accurate, and reliable manipulation of variable objects. RightHand Robotics Inc. has raised $66 million to continue developing its piece-picking technology and expanding its partner network and presence worldwide. “This Series C funding round attracted top-tier investors who know the space and share our vision that piece-picking automation enables predictable throughput with lights-out item handling, while meeting customer needs for scalable fulfillment services,” stated Yaro Tenzer, co-founder and CEO of RightHand. “We are eager to continue expanding our solution set and global presence to meet the needs of warehouse operators worldwide.” Harvard Biorobotics Lab, Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT researchers…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 37.04
November 18, 2021
SVT Robotics says its integration software is revolutionizing robot deployments in warehousing and manufacturing industries. The company's SOFTBOT Platform is designed to enable companies to easily connect their enterprise systems to any robot or automation in just days or weeks versus months or years without custom code.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.20
November 18, 2021
SVT Robotics Inc. yesterday announced the close of its $25 million Series A funding round. The Norfolk, Va.-based startup has developed its SOFTBOT platform to accelerate and simplify the integration and deployment of robots. SVT claimed that companies can use its software to integrate any enterprise system with automation for any task, without custom code, in days or weeks instead of months or years. Even with the global robotics market growing at an annual rate of 26%, automation deployments have not been fast enough for most companies to adapt to supply chain and staffing challenges they have experienced over the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.42
November 14, 2021
The first phase of warehouse robotics may be coming to close. That’s because vendors today are talking more about fulfillment processes, integration, and software rather than the robots. The types of robotic systems available has matured and diversified. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can assist warehouse associates with picking efficiency. There are also AMRs that move larger loads, autonomous lift trucks, goods-to-person automation, and mobile manipulators. In the past couple of years, rapid progress has been made with pick-and-place systems that use artificial intelligence and articulating robotic arms. This proliferation of warehouse robotics has come pretty fast and already has brought…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.07
October 13, 2021
…& Vascular demonstrating the safety and efficacy of its robotic technology to treat atrioventricular reentry tachycardia (AVRT) and atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT) in pediatric patients with heart rhythm disease. “We are excited to share data from this large long-term comparative study,” said Dr. Anne-Marie Noten, author of the publication. “It builds upon the significant body of evidence supporting the clinical value of robotics for arrhythmia patients, particularly the most vulnerable patients with complex disease.” Stereotaxis has designed technologies to improve the treatment of arrhythmias and perform endovascular procedures. The St. Louis, Mo.-based company said its robots, instruments, and information…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.57
June 22, 2021
Integrating robotics software and hardware for piece picking can be challenging, so SVT Robotics Inc. has worked with RightHand Robotics Inc. to develop a prebuilt connector between SVT’s SOFTBOT Platform and the RightPick 3 item-handling robot. “By connecting to the prebuilt standard integrations of our SOFTBOT Platform, RightHand Robotics customers who adopt the RightPick 3 system can now deploy without the need for custom integration code,” stated T.J. Fanning, vice president of sales at SVT. “Integrators offering flexible, automated piece picking will be able to connect and integrate this robust solution faster than ever before.” SVT Robotics said SOFTBOT enables…
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…
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 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 11.30
September 25, 2020
SVT Robotics, whose software accelerates and simplifies deployment of robots, introduced its SOFTBOT™ Platform allowing companies to expedite the adoption and deployment of robotics within their warehouses and manufacturing facilities in a matter of days or weeks, rather than months or years. With the SOFTBOT™ Platform launch now provides a fully agnostic solution for rapid integration between enterprise systems and industrial robotics and across automation technologies. The platform helps companies quickly adopt robotics into their manufacturing facilities or supply chains with fast, flexible and simple solutions that can easily be deployed without the need for custom code. “SVT’s singular focus…
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 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…
