Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.56
November 16, 2022
AutoStore AS yesterday announced its new Unify Analytics cloud-based service and data platform. The technology enables businesses using AutoStore's automated storage and retrieval system, or ASRS, to gain access to data-led insights and identify the cause of operational issues, said the company. Unify Analytics is available in two versions, a Web application where businesses can view real-time statistics and analytics, and an API that enables seamless integration with external third-party applications. “Businesses can reap multiple benefits by combining automated storage and retrieval and data-led insights,” stated Andreas Munch, product manager at AutoStore. “This data analysis tool will allow businesses to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.08
November 15, 2022
…Stern has a long legacy within the storage and micro-fulfillment industry. We are looking to learn from their experience and work together to offer creative solutions to their customers.” Addverb said it provides smart end-to-end warehouse and industrial automation and intralogistics solutions. The company said its extensive portfolio includes robots, material handling technologies, and software. It added that its fixed and flexible automation can help improve the performance and accuracy of warehouse and factory operations. Addverb's headquarters, manufacturing, and research and development facilities are in India, with global offices in Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands, the U.S., Germany, and the United…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.53
November 14, 2022
More automation doesn’t necessarily mean better automation. That’s why a deployment with an impressive number of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, in a mobile robot fleet isn’t necessarily more effective than one with just a handful. While it’s common for mobile robot deployments to start small and get bigger, success with AMRs takes more than growing the fleet. You need to consider how quickly and easily you can add more automation and people into a robotic-enabled workflow to handle spikes in demand, as well as software capabilities and the ability to integrate with other systems. Mobile robots come in various…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.97
November 11, 2022
During its “Delivering the Future” event at its robotics manufacturing facility yesterday in Westborough, Mass., Amazon.com Inc. announced Sparrow, its new robotic arm designed to complete product-handling tasks. “Sparrow is the first robotic system in our warehouses that can detect, select, and handle individual products in our inventory,” the company said in a blog post. “Sparrow represents a major advancement in the state-of-the-art technology of industrial robotics. Leveraging computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI), Sparrow can recognize and handle millions of items.” An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch the robot can recognize about 65% of the company’s product inventory and takes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.20
November 11, 2022
Environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity can affect additive manufacturing, so process monitoring can help standardize production. Handddle and Markforged yesterday said they are integrating Handddle's “micro-factories” platform and other management tools with the Markforged Digital Forge software. “Handddle is thrilled to collaborate with Markforged to extend API integrations for Handddle and Markforged users looking to achieve industrial efficiencies to address quality challenges in strategic markets,” said Dylan Taleb, co-founder and chief operating officer of Handddle. “Thanks to this collaboration, manufacturers will be able to rely on an integrated solution to develop their knowledge and control of production processes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.42
November 10, 2022
Element Logic AS last week said it will integrate Addverb Technologies' systems for autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, into its existing portfolio alongside a fleet management platform. The companies said this will enable customers to decrease operational costs and increase profits. Element Logic and Addverb said they can jointly offer customers flexible systems for material transport, consolidation, and sequencing—buffers before and after the picking process from an AutoStore automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). “By using AMRs, we can help our customers to improve internal processes, increase efficiency, and offer them faster and more reliable order processing,” stated Hans-Jörg Braumüller,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.77
November 09, 2022
GreyOrange announced it has begun working with supply chain services company Piviotree Inc. and will pair its robotic fulfillment orchestration platform, GreyMatter, with Pivotree’s warehouse management system, or WMS. GreyMatter is robot agnostic, according to Roswell, Ga.-based GreyOrange, and uses real-time data and machine learning to orchestrate fulfillment operations for the efficient movement of automated systems. Toronto-based Pivotree said its WMS supports multiple brands and warehouses with complex and varied business processes on a single, shared software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. With over 250 major retailers and branded manufacturers as customers, Pivotree said its portfolio of digital products helps…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.97
November 09, 2022
AutoStore yesterday launched PickUpPort its first public-facing port that lets consumers shop online and pick up their orders directly from the AutoStore System. “It’s important for us to help retailers stay ahead in an ever-changing industry,” stated Carlos Fernández, chief product officer at AutoStore. “With the new PickUpPort, retailers can offer a hassle-free pick-up option in-store, and customers can see how robots pick, organize, and store items. When retailers adopt this technology, their customers get even more flexibility and freedom.” Founded in 1996, AutoStore claimed that it is a pioneer in cube storage automation, “the densest order-fulfillment solution in existence.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.20
November 07, 2022
Cubiscan announced last week that the company is entering into a partnership with inVia Robotics, a warehouse autonomous mobile robot maker, to help it “improve inventory management, optimize outbound parcel strategy, and enhance overall warehouse productivity and throughput.” The partnership was spurred by an increase in ecommerce demands, according to Farmington, UT-based Cubiscan, which supplies static and in-motion dimensioning systems. “More orders must be filled, even faster than before, and delivered to consumers via many channels,” the company said in a short release announcing the partnership. “And the surge in parcel movement through the transit network has caused freight carriers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.22
November 07, 2022
…in the market. Founded in 2015, Fabric said its micro-fulfillment center (MFC) concept and robotics help brands and retailers with cost-effective, on-demand fulfillment. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York and is backed by leading investors. Fabric to integrate LEA Reply Fabric said it will use the LEA Reply supply-chain execution platform developed by Logistics Reply to provide a ready-to-use connector to Reply's WMS. The companies said this will allow them to quickly develop new features for their customers to improve the performance of the robotics, warehouse execution system (WES), and WMS with minimal additional integration…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.02
November 03, 2022
From the growth of e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent labor shortages, there have been plenty of reasons for supply chains to adopt mobile robots. However, understanding the need to automate and getting a return on one's investment are two different things, noted GreyOrange's CEO. The key is whether robots are adding value as part of a holistic approach, noted Samay Kohli, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange Inc. The Roswell, Ga.-based company provides automation for warehouses, distribution centers, and fulfillment facilities. Kohli recently spoke with Robotics 24/7 about how robots such as GreyOrange's Certified Ranger Robots (CRN) and software…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.74
November 03, 2022
As digitization and automation become top priorities for businesses worldwide, they are partnering with experienced suppliers and integrators to implement robotics. DB Schenker, a global logistics service provider, today said it has partnered with Körber Supply Chain to automate operations at its new distribution center near Prague. The companies claimed that the installation of 100 autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from Geekplus Technology Co. is one of the largest of its kind in Eastern Europe. Geek+ is a trusted technology partner of Körber. “DB Schenker has experienced outstanding success since its inception as an early innovator in the Eastern European market,”…
