Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
May 01, 2016
…it has been off the market since 2012, when Amazon acquired the company. Although Amazon is still supporting existing installations like the one at Quiet Logistics, that support will end at some point in the future. For that reason, if you travel a mile down the road, you can see necessity—and invention—on display at a 200,000-square-foot facility operated by Quiet. There, in an area reserved for one customer, a handful of small, mobile robots carry totes representing one single- or multi-line order from a packing station to picking locations. Once there, lights on the base of the robots blink to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.09
May 01, 2016
…going after commodity items like books and CDs like Amazon, Quiet decided to service companies with high customer expectations—like the Gilt Groupe—and specialize in processes that allowed e-tailers to provide a unique customer experience. But would they go with conventional processes with lots of touches and lots of flexibility, or go with a highly automated approach with terrific throughput, but less flexibility? “They decided that there had to be a better way,” says Trebilcock. “They wanted to create a shared asset/shared infrastructure fulfillment platform for piece picking, and they wanted a solution that allowed them to start small and scale…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.15
April 01, 2016
…a start-up, just as Borders was done in by Amazon and the entertainment industry has been upended by the digitization of music, movies and television. At the same time, every business is wondering if some new technology might be the magic bullet that allows it to innovate and gain a competitive advantage. After all, it’s better to be the disrupter than to be disrupted. At first glance, optometry wouldn’t appear to be an industry ripe for disruption. But, that was before new competitors like Warby Parker burst onto the scene with new business models to sell eyewear on the Web.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.02
March 01, 2016
…keeping companies from exploring their options. As evidenced by Amazon’s push to automate its own warehouse (and, purchase a robot-maker in order to make that happen), the drive to achieve higher productivity at a lower cost with the help of technology isn’t waning. “Labor is an increasing cost, with seasonal labor being particularly difficult to manage and plan for,” says Longacre. “It causes a lot of problems for the companies and the employees, so a lot of firms are looking to technology and automation to help alleviate some of these pain points.” Khodl concurs, and says the need for lower…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 33.95
March 01, 2013
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