Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.46
October 05, 2021
…organizations across the region to position themselves strategically and gain a competitive advantage post-COVID-19.” Körber cited successes across a variety of industries that it will discuss in the sessions at Elevate. Robotics – Covering use cases across cold chain/food distribution, e-commerce, retail, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs), Kӧrber will demonstrate the latest autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). It will include key insights from implementation. Voice - Voice-assisted picking technology is capturing the attention of some of APAC's largest retailers and 3PLs. Kӧrber will present its latest functionalities and show how to unlock revenue opportunities. It will also unveil its regional voice…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.46
January 15, 2023
…set for the reshoring of U.S. manufacturing to finally gain momentum, and the latest generation of robots represents a key element of the equation. The backdrop against which this shift will unfold reflects a new set of economic realities for the industry. Two elements stand out as drivers of change: the rise in offshore wages and the increase in transportation costs, both of which are causing manufacturers to re-evaluate the benefits of maintaining production operations overseas. “Many companies that established operations outside of the U.S. that may be tied to the offshoring wave of the 1980s and 1990s now want…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.45
November 25, 2022
…at AG. “This new phase of autonomous vehicles is a good opportunity for us to follow new evolutions closely, gain experience with them and collect data that we can use in the evaluation of risks.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.45
March 18, 2023
…to rethink multi-use spaces, robotics, and customer demand to gain efficiency. Demand for logistics robots still increasing What are robots handling for your customers? Oliaro: We worked with an arts-and-crafts group in Missouri. It had small items and wanted a way to bring costs down. It owned and ran a facility that was inefficient, and we showed how to take their projected volumes and apply automation to reduce labor costs. Joe Oliaro, Wagner Logistics The challenge in that market—in a small town—was that it was constantly churning labor. Any e-commerce fulfillment center has a ton of churn. We came up…
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 2.38
October 23, 2024
…no matter how far off it was, and we'll gain that performance back.” Automated flexibility thanks to interchangeable EOAT Interchangeable end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) has provided Rethink’s new robot arms with operational flexibility that was lacking with its original robots. “Baxter and Sawyer had cameras embedded in the arms,” Harbert said. “There was an ease because it came with a camera. The challenge, of course, was that it wasn't always the right camera for what you wanted the robot to do. “The original Rethink had their own grippers that they designed and fabricated,” he added. “That's fine for some applications, but…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.37
September 02, 2022
…useful and expanding the number of people who can gain value,” said Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik. “They're becoming easier to use and more accessible, doing more and costing less to implement.” “Public perception is changing—COVID-19 drove a lot of that with job shortages,” he added. “Robotics is key to the future of productivity; there is no future of work without robots.” Founded in 2016, Apptronik spun out of the University of Texas at Austin. The Austin-based company is developing exoskeletons and the Astro humanoid robot. Cardenas spoke with Robotics 24/7 about how Amazon's recent purchase of iRobot and Apptronik's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.37
September 03, 2023
…of robotics forward at an astonishing pace. Robotic hands gain human-like receptors The profound connection between the human experience and the nuances of touch is well known. Our tactile senses, orchestrated by a network of intricate receptors known as the somatosensory system, allow us to comprehend the world around us. This system enables us to differentiate between sensations like hot and cold, rough and smooth, and even pain and tickling. Given the sophistication of this sensory process, replicating it within robotics, particularly in their extremities, has been a challenge historically. However, new approaches to introducing human-like receptors into the hands…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.36
October 05, 2021
…environment can be a tough proposition. How can you gain confidence that the robot’s perception capabilities are robust enough so it performs safely and as planned? Trimble faced this challenge when it started building plans to deploy the Spot robot in a variety of indoor settings and construction environments. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble needed to tune the machine learning (ML) models to the exact indoor environments so Boston Dynamics' quadruped could autonomously operate in these different indoor settings. “As we deploy Spot equipped with our data-collection sensors and field-control software to indoor environments, we need to develop a cost effective and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.34
December 13, 2021
…chain workers can benefit from enhanced workplace safety and gain technology skills, Symbotic said. The company added that its automation can be incorporated into existing operating infrastructure without disrupting operations or requiring customers to build new distribution infrastructure. Symbotic scales up to meet order backlog Symbotic noted that its customers include Walmart, Albertsons, and C&S Wholesale Grocers. With “the industry’s largest contracted order backlog of over $5 billion,” the company said its systems already serve in more than 1,400 stores in 16 states and eight Canadian provinces. In addition, Symbotic forecast $433 million in revenue in FY 2022, representing an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.34
September 22, 2021
…load on the host CPU while providing significant performance gain, said NVIDIA. “DNN models can be used as a plug-in to develop robots,” said Gopalakrishna. “Developers could take domain-specific data for, say, a hospital, a warehouse, or a store. They could deploy a diverse set of models in real time.” The new Isaac GEMs for ROS include: SGM stereo disparity and point cloud Color space conversation and lens distortion correction AprilTags detection “We now have over 850,000 developers on Jetson, whihch has become the de facto edge AI compute platform for many mobile robot applications,” said Gopalakrishna. “From our $99…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.33
April 01, 2016
…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. One of the companies monitoring these new competitors is VSP Optics Group, the optics lab arm of VSP Global. With $263 million in revenue in 2014, it is one of the largest manufacturers of lenses for glasses, serving some…
