Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.78
May 23, 2022
HAI ROBOTICS announced today that will exhibit HAIPICK A42T, the company’s tallest autonomous case-handling robot, for the first time in Europe next week at the LogiMAT 2022 tradeshow in Stuttgart, Germany. Featuring a telescopic lift, the robot can reach a maximum picking height of 10 meters (32 ft.). It can descend as low as 0.28 m (11 in.) to pick totes and cartons stored on the bottom level of the shelf. The Shenzhen, China-based company will also display its HAIPORT automatic loading and unloading machine. The system is capable of loading four to eight cases in only three seconds and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.80
May 20, 2022
Looking to expand outside of food processing, Soft Robotics Inc. this week announced it will begin to market its artificial intelligence-enabled picking system to the consumer goods, e-commerce, and logistics industries. The Bedford, Mass.-based company said its mGripAI solution combines 3D vision, artificial intelligence, and its compliant gripper to gives industrial robots the same dexterity and hand-eye coordination of human workers. That enables robots to work in unstructured environments and complete tasks such as order fulfillment, sortation, decanting, and kitting, it said. Moving beyond food processing Initially introduced to the food processing industry in 2021, mGripAI can reliably pick, place,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.03
May 20, 2022
Robotics manufacturer FANUC America recently announced it will demonstrate a range of its robots at the Automate 2022 trade show in Detroit. That includes the company’s first stainless steel food grade delta robot for picking and packing primary food products, the DR-3ib/6 STAINLESS delta robot. The new DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS delta robot, using a Soft Robotics gripper, will pick bakery, dairy, and meat products from the middle section of the demonstration’s work area and place them in specified zones. Stainless-steel design for food packing environment The DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS features a fully enclosed stainless-steel body that is resistant to the chemicals and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.56
May 20, 2022
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., or AMD, this week announced the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, the latest addition to its Kria line of developer kits and adaptive system-on-modules, or SOMs. With native support for ROS 2, the open-source Robotics Operating System, and prebuilt interfaces, the new SOM kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication and control, said AMD. “The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kits builds on the success of our Kria SOMs and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit for AI and embedded developers, providing roboticists with a complete, out-of-the-box solution for this rapidly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.57
May 18, 2022
The power of video in robot monitoring Video telemetry is a powerful information source used to understand the context in which you’re operating. At Formant we’ve worked to maximize the utilization of human visual recognition by bringing tools specifically tailored for video telemetry in robotics. Why video matters Video is incredibly important for understanding operations in particular. Identification of visual entities around your machine is only one part of vision data. Like any investigation, we try to answer who, what, when, where, why, and how. Video is what enables us to understand the time dimension of how a robot interaction…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.72
May 18, 2022
GreyOrange Pte. Ltd. yesterday announced that it has closed $110 million in growth financing that it said demonstrates the ongoing market shift to automated fulfillment. The company said it plans to use the capital to continue its global expansion and grow the adoption of its robotics hardware and inventory optimization software. “Our fulfillment platform revolutionizes how the largest and best-known retail brands in the world, such as Walmart and H&M, fulfill their promises to customers, employees, and shareholders,” stated Samay Kohli, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange. “As e-commerce sales soar, brands face a stark reality: embrace automation or cede customers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.86
May 17, 2022
European robotics users will have an opportunity to see firsthand how picking systems are getting smarter. RightHand Robotics Inc. today said it will debut at LogiMAT 2022 in Stuttgart, Germany. The Somerville, Mass.-based company will demonstrate its RightPick 3 system for automated order fulfillment. “Our latest expansion and funding have accelerated plans for RightHand Robotics to be a leader in the European market,” said Roderik Ter Beek, regional manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at RightHand. “We are excited to be exhibiting our RightPick 3 solution at LogiMAT this year.” “Despite having production systems in Europe, we…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.83
May 17, 2022
…effects due to inflation. Did the study look at micro-fulfillment centers at all? Wheeler: No, but we did ask retailers about their response to the demands and growth of e-commerce and how they were responding. Sixty-four percent said they plan to open dedicated fulfilment centers close to market. We also asked about plans for partial and full-facility automation, but not specifically tied to micro-fulfillment. However, some feedback that we received may be an indicator of strategies businesses are deploying to speed up large-volume fulfillment and deliver products to customers in a timely manner. Today, 14% of decision makers across all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.29
May 15, 2022
I will never forget ProMat 2007. That’s the first industry event where I saw what we now call autonomous mobile robots or AMRs. More importantly, these robots were targeting warehousing and distribution. The exhibitors were Kiva Systems, now part of Amazon; RMT Robotics, now part of Cimcorp; and Seegrid. Each had a relatively small booth in which its vehicles moved on their own like oversized toys. While ProMat 2005 was all about RFID, AMRs were the hit of the 2007 show. Here’s what I wrote at the time: In 2007, RMT Robotics, Kiva Systems, and Seegrid introduced mobile robots to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.20
May 13, 2022
Geekplus Technology Co. this week announced its mobile robots have been successfully deployed at a 13,500 sq. ft. fulfillment center in Croydon, U.K., owned by British online retailer RangePlus Ltd. The Beijing-based company said RangePlus now has the firepower to compete with larger actors in the growing e-commerce sector. The Geek+ goods-to-person solution is running 24/7 in RangePlus's fulfillment center with 243,000 SKUs and handles over 250,000 orders per year. Established in 2014, RangePlus stocks a diverse range of around 4,000 SKUs across toiletries, cosmetics, confectionary, and grocery products. ‘System is paying for itself,’ says RangePlus The new automated storage…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.87
May 13, 2022
…billion in 2027, said LogisticsIQ. Both market research firms noted strong expectations for North America and worldwide, interest in micro-fulfillment centers, and mobile robots as an alternative to automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS).
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.62
May 09, 2022
As labor shortages and logistics challenges continue to strain global supply chains, operators are looking for easier ways to adopt automation. Berkshire Grey Inc. last week said it has partnered with Logistex to serve Europe's leading pure-play e-commerce companies, retailers, and third-party logistics providers. The partners said they will combine Berkshire Grey's artificial intelligence and robots with Logistex's experience as a systems integrator. “Berkshire Grey’s robotic solution portfolio is incredibly robust. By addressing some of the most labor-intensive warehouse processes and handling the broadest range of SKUs, their systems can solve operational challenges across our customer base,” stated Andy Branch,…
