Found in Robotics White Papers & Archives, with a score of 11.28
August 02, 2021
…might be inclined to assume that such significant efficiency gains must come at a steep price, but the truth is that robotic lift trucks actually help lower operating costs. While investing in automation can seem like a large expense upfront, a combination of labor, maintenance and equipment savings means that robotic lift trucks can cut operating expenses by up to 70% – making them a very sound investment. Operations can begin by deploying just a single truck as proof of concept before making a larger investment, robotic lift trucks offer a lower cost of entry and greater scalability than industry…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.20
July 29, 2021
…Clemson’s traditional shuttles. The team will also study sustainability gains to be derived from AV technology’s routing, dispatch, and route optimization. “I am excited to see the long term impact of Optimus Ride’s autonomous, electric shuttles on campus energy use, transportation choices, and parking behavior,” said Vahidi. “What we learn can easily translate to other university campuses and energy savings can scale up in larger metropolitan areas.” “Instead of stressing about parking at peak hours, wasting time and energy, and perhaps missing a lecture, students, faculty, and staff can enjoy hassle free parking at satellite parking lots, thanks to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.02
July 28, 2021
…Airbiquity's most advanced and industry-proven over-the-air update technology, companies gain access to these ever-expanding capabilities without disrupting their daily operations.” Cyngn's DriveMod provides autonomy Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cyngn said it has been operating autonomous vehicles in production environments since 2017. The company's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Qualcomm, and Telefonica. Cyngn described its DriveMod flagship product as “an end-to-end autonomy solution that can be flexibly deployed on multiple vehicle types in various environments.” It delivers intelligent analytics, artificial intelligence, advanced safety features, and self-driving capabilities for industrial vehicles. DriveMod is vehicle-agnostic, working across all kinds of industrial…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.48
July 26, 2021
…complexity. So grocers also need to find upstream productivity gains to offset the costs of e-grocery.” “We see the U.S. changing much faster than other regions, and that is why we have decided to focus our MFC activities there,” said SSI Schaefer. RaaS helps retailers Another trend helping retailers adopt automation is the robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model, said the report. RaaS offers to reduce capital expenditures (capex) on outright purchases of equipment by transferring service requirements to third-party providers as operational expenses (opex). “I think that there are a select few, probably including Walmart that will go down the capex…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.95
July 24, 2021
…insights have you gained or are you looking to gain? Motional and Eversource are still evaluating the insights. We look forward to sharing our findings as we continue to collaborate. How would more data benefit municipalities? Is this technology more relevant for suburbs or even rural areas? There many ways this type of data could be used by local officials and agencies. In the future, the vehicles could be used to collect information on potholes, down traffic signals, a hazard at an intersection such as a broken-down car, or even an accident before it’s reported to authorities. Is Motional talking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.27
July 19, 2021
…Although Booktopia was primarily looking to automation for efficiency gains, the company said its entire operation has benefitted. The rising rental cost of warehouses has become a problem for many companies across Australia, and HAIPICK makes it faster and easier to increase capacity and storage, said HAI Robotics. HAIPICK differs from typical autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in that HAI Robotics' systems have a telescopic fork that stretches 4 m (13.1 ft.) high. This gives the robots the ability to carry cartons as well as individual totes and to bring multiple cases to pickers or conveyors in one movement. Booktopia has…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.28
July 15, 2021
…success. In addition, the project enalbed the company to gain worldwide recognition for its software license that turns a welding robot into a high-end 3D metal printer. MX3D raised $2.7 million to launch its M1 metal additive manufacturing system in April. In the government-funded BRIDE project, the University of Twente, TU Delft, the Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan Studies, and MX3D are studying societal reactions to such construction. What do citizens want from smarter infrastructures, and do they even want it? What are the ethical boundaries data collection should adhere to? Should a city collaborate or even be in the lead?…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.87
July 15, 2021
…scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Robotic Drive gains cloud capabilities DXC Luxoft said the Robotic Drive Cloud offering brings together the production-ready Robotic Drive services, toolchain, and platform into a new, cloud-based approach for automotive customers and OEMs such as BMW. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, and more. DXC Luxoft and AWS said their automotive experience will enable safe integration and transformation of toolchains, technologies, and processes. The companies added that Robotic Drive on AWS will use several native services for different components catering to various use cases for ADAS application…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.32
July 14, 2021
…can do most of the driving, yielding substantial productivity gains,” Nusser said. Another reason to automate the process is to improve worker safety. “According to OSHA [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration], if you have 15 forklifts, you'll have one injury per year,” said Nusser. “Each one costs $150,000 for the operator. Fetch's Freight1500 AMR has 360-degree sensor coverage and can move forward and backward. It reduces the problematic model of forklifts mixing with people.” Zone-based picking Fetch and Körber said their new system enables zone-based picking, which keeps employees in aisles and enhances picking across numerous orders. This workflow…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.42
July 12, 2021
…expectations for rapid online order fulfillment. Whether micro-fulfillment will gain much traction outside of grocery remains to be seen. In e-grocery, there are some unique order and service-level requirements. Online shoppers typically want same-day home or curbside delivery for groceries, and you may have 40 items in a customer order, which is higher than in most other retail segments. By contrast, consumers may be fine with one- or two-day delivery for many other types of goods, though expectations tend to be rising. On-demand fulfillment network providers do offer technology, especially software tools that help determine where to hold inventory and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.09
July 07, 2021
…major benefits: We protect our customers' data, and we gain speed because the robots can take over many tasks more quickly. In this way, the collaborative robots can, for example, support production workers with repetitive, heavy, and tiring tasks.” During the project, a total of four autonomous picking stations will be set up for training the robots: two at the IFL and two at Festo SE headquarters in Esslingen, Germany. In the FLAIROP research project, autonomous robots process articles at several picking stations by means of gripping and transferring. Credit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Canadian partners “DarwinAI is thrilled to provide…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.64
July 03, 2021
…said its systems will help intelligent and autonomous driving gain momentum in the new era of 5G. A vision for the future Xiaoyu 2.0 has entered the stage of massive distribution in Guangzhou, Nanjing, Sansha, Changsha and Zhengzhou, China. The implementation has been over 700 days, reaching 360,000 trips and 7.1 million km (4.4 million mi.) of operations for open roads. Xiaoyu 2.0 was also the first autonomous bus to be introduced into a tarmac test at Changsha Airport. Yutong said that Xiaoyu's futuristic look was inspired by spacecraft. Its designers reconciled engineering and aesthetic factors with oversized portholes that…
