Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.97
April 01, 2022
…to today’s fulfillment challenges and customer expectations for fast delivery. Sistemo said it has deep expertise with the GreyOrange fulfillment platform, having collaboratively developed and implemented omnichannel, intralogistics, and click-and-collect projects for numerous organizations and sites across Chile and Colombia over the past five years. “Sistemo is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art technology which delivers the operational excellence our customers need to scale their business,” said Ignacio Orellana, founder and director of Sistemo. “By advancing our partnership with GreyOrange, we can work as a trusted advisor to more customers through every stage of the process, from business development and solution design…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.31
March 30, 2022
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., is working with aviation company Elroy Air to deliver packages via autonomous drones. San Francisco-based Elroy Air claims to be building the first end-to-end, autonomous electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aerial cargo system, the Chapparal. It has been working with FedEx since 2020. FedEx Express said it plans to test Elroy Air’s technology within the company’s middle-mile logistics operations, moving shipments between sortation locations. The companies plan to begin test flighting by 2023, after receiving the proper certifications. Elroy Air unveiled its pre-production Chaparral autonomous aircraft in January 2022. The company said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.52
March 30, 2022
…can improve efficiency and reliability. They help fulfill same-day deliveries of billions of orders, with customers including nine of the 15 largest global food retailers, it said. As a partner for “future-proof airport solutions,” Vanderlande said its baggage-handling systems can move more than 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. These are active in more than 600 airports, including 12 of the world’s top 20. Vanderlande added that its systems sort more than 52 million parcels every day at the world’s leading parcel-handling companies. Toyota Industries Corp. acquired Vanderlande in 2017. The companies said their synergies include…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.72
March 29, 2022
…future autonomous development. The standard RPL44 and PTT60 will be available for order at the conclusion of MODEX, with deliveries to begin late spring 2022.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.02
March 29, 2022
Flytrex Inc., a drone delivery company based out of Tel Aviv, Israel, today announced the launch of its drone delivery service in Granbury, Texas, just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth. As part of the Texas launch, the company will expand its partnership with Brinker International and two virtual brands – It’s Just Wings and Maggiano’s Italian Classics, delivering food orders via drone to front and backyards of local residents, with a flight time of just five minutes. The service will operate in cooperation with longtime partner Causey Aviation Unmanned under a newly granted Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver allowing a delivery…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.07
March 28, 2022
…months. The company said all units scheduled for 2022 delivery have already sold out thanks to strong demand from those early customers, which include DHL Supply Chain, Gap, H&M, and Performance Team – A Maersk Company. Boston Dynamics said it is now accepting reservations for 2023 and 2024 deliveries. The Waltham, Mass.-based company has three robots in its portfolio: Spot, a quadruped that conducts industrial inspections for enterprise asset management; Atlas, its humanoid robot; and Stretch. The company said its robots are equipped with advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence, enabling automation in unstructured or hard-to-traverse spaces, from manufacturing plants and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.31
March 24, 2022
Increasing demand for automation has led to strong growth across industries, including among ingredient technology suppliers. igus GmbH today reported that its business results from 2021 demonstrated record growth in revenue and customer adoption. The Cologne, Germany-based company said it develops and makes motion plastics, which are self-lubricating, high-performance polymers intended to reduce costs wherever things move. “€234 million [$257 million U.S.] more sales in one year, with almost the same selling prices until the end of the year, and everything produced as well as sourced in-house—we've never had that before,” said Frank Blase, CEO of igus. “Our colleagues achieved…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.20
March 23, 2022
…their existing workflows. We offer all this with blazing-speed delivery, faster than anyone in the world! We offer a “frictionless” customer experience, combined with RaaS, which eliminates the large capex purchase. RIOS to show active workcell at MODEX RIOS will unveil several new workcells in Booth C8290 in response to popular customer demand. On-floor demonstrations will showcase artificial intelligence-powered robotic workcells in active handling of goods with human-level dexterity at line speeds. Its digital twins are built on NVIDIA's recently updated Omniverse. The demonstration task performed by the robots is an integral part of operations within distribution centers of all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.59
March 22, 2022
…that provide smart solutions to overcome the last mile delivery issues will gain in the battlefield of supply chains. Latest trends point to emerging practice of Direct to Customer (D2C) over reaching customer via Distribution Centers (DC2C). One must keep in mind that this strategy is not just about eliminating a middle layer in the supply chain. As opposed to this, it is to gain efficiencies just by adopting automation and technology to eliminate a dispensable layer. Economies of scale is a driver to adopt this strategy and hence large players benefit from this. A centralised warehouse that caters to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.78
March 21, 2022
…pursue these types of value-adding transactions and accelerate the delivery of our industrial data solutions. What can you share about your company's goals or milestones for this year? Mozer: Following the success of American Robotics’ FAA approval, we are now focused on executing a growth strategy—making sure we provide leading service to our customers, and working with them to prepare for further deployments. There has been a lot of overpromising and underdelivering in the commercial drone space, and American Robotics is now positioned and determined to change that trend. From an industry standpoint, we are at the beginning of what…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.28
March 20, 2022
…temperature-controlled warehousing, multimodal transportation, e-commerce order fulfillment, and last-mile delivery. CJ Logistics has operated in the U.S. for nearly 50 years and acquired Des Plaines, Ill.-based DSC Logistics in 2018. Today, CJ Logistics operates in 155 cities across 40 countries, with 80 locations in North America. It has a significant presence in regulated industries, such as food and beverage, healthcare, and consumer packaged goods (CPG). The company distributes food and CPG products at the pallet and case level to retail, club stores, and specialty stores on a regional basis. Its Dallas facility is dedicated to one customer. CJ Logistics needed…
