Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
May 08, 2022
…Interest in intralogistics has grown because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, persistent labor shortages, spiking e-commerce orders, and ever-evolving consumer preferences. The exhibition hall at the recent MODEX trade show, one of the leading materials handling events in the world, brought the current state of warehouse robotics into clear focus, all under one roof. There, hundreds of vendors from all over the world were showcasing their innovations, most of which were directly or indirectly related to automation and robotics. Are you currently using or considering other types of large-scale logistics automation like conveyors, sortation, storage/retrieval, or shuttle systems? Source: Peerless…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
August 06, 2023
…have sent people who walked on the moon. The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unexpected reduction in the budgets allocated by many countries for space programs in 2021, but the reduction wasn’t very significant for any of them. Click on image to enlarge. Source: Euroconsult Still, the opportunities for space robotics to grow are huge. In fact, the market for space robotics could grow from $3.16 billion in 2023 to $4.75 billion in 2027, according to a report by Stratview Research. Due to factors both economic and experiential, not many private-sector players have made significant progress in this field. Even…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.21
March 07, 2022
…in training. Despite ongoing supply chain problems and the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce growth has continued, forcing distribution centers (DCs) to scramble. This has led to both more spending on both workforce development and automation. This two-pronged approach is enabling retailers to keep up with fulfillment volumes. In which areas will you be investing over the next 12 months? Source: Peerless Research “It’s the new landscape,” said Norm Saenz, managing director and partner at St. Onge, a supply chain engineering and consulting company and Peerless' research partner for this project. “I think leaders in operations see the writing on the wall.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.21
November 24, 2021
…and ever-growing needs for actionable data and throughput. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated e-commerce demand and heightened worker shortages, but maturing automation can help, according to inVia Robotics Inc. Westlake Village, Calif.-based inVia provides the Picker goods-to-person autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and the inVia Logic software for orchestrating tasks and the movement of goods. The company raised $30 million in Series C funding in July. 1. Robots aid rather than replace workers If robots handle repetitive tasks in quantity, that can free up people for qualitative work, such as creatively boxing orders, maintaining quality control, and collaborating with vendors to meet…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.21
July 30, 2021
…year or early in 2022. “This summer, because of COVID-19, we're planning to arrange online streams from the field in different languages to show how our robots actually work,” said Emelyanov. A vision of future farming Not only is technology changing how farmers manage crops; it's also changing the nature of the business, according to Emelyanov. “The farmer used to own his land and his machines, and he took on all the risks of food manufacturing, defined by time spent seeding, spraying, and harvesting,” he said. “He would use his own experience and that handed down by his Uncle Frank.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.20
March 28, 2023
…since that last live ProMat, dominated first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then followed by the war in Ukraine and rising geopolitical instability. Since last spring, rising inflation and interest rates have been on consumers' and businesses' minds. As a result, companies aren’t just out to automate select tasks; they are also after greater operational agility and real-time analytics to help contain costs while hitting service levels. And exhibitors all around ProMat talked up integrated robotics as a way to speed up material flow and improve order-fulfillment efficiencies in distribution centers (DCs). Mobile robots roll on For sure, the market…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.19
July 18, 2023
…their operations. “Demand is not down,” Koffarnus said. “The [COVID-19] pandemic, if anything, increased demand to a new level. We still need to move the same amount of goods with less labor, and you have to rely on technology to be able to do that. There’s no other way to do it.” Augmenting labor top of mind for food and bev The food and beverage market is growing fast. In the “Food and Beverages Global Market Report 2023,” The Business Research Co. said it expects it to reach to $9.23 billion by 2027. To keep up with this demand, deliver…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.18
June 01, 2021
…was starting to make bigger investments in robotics. Then COVID-19 hit, and for a while, there was a break in the action, but that all quickly changed. “The pandemic put the brakes on a lot of stuff early in 2020, but by the end of the year, it was rocketing back. The pandemic accelerated companies' decisions. They were looking at how to automate beforehand.” — Jeff Burnstein, president, A3 So what are some of the key things that are driving this push for robotics as we come out of the pandemic? How will more robotics, not only in our workplaces,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.18
July 09, 2021
…radio, movie theaters and even conventional television broadcasting. The COVID-19 pandemic gave a new meaning to disruption given the scale and scope of the global shutdown of supply chains. Previous supply chain disruptions were typically regionalized and time-limited: When a hurricane threatens to hit the Atlantic coast, manufacturers and distributors in the Carolinas may not be able to predict the storm damage, but they can predict more or less when they’ll be hit and know that if they’re still standing after the storms pass, how long it’ll take to get back up and running. This was not only different in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.17
October 06, 2020
…on and use a vehicle. “In this time of Covid-19 challenges, checklists can be updated to reinforce and remind operators of the importance of following sanitation or protective mask standards, while with access control have digital control and traceability over who is using each vehicle,” says Paramore. In this era of social distancing, the pre-shift digital checklist function is definitely being tweaked to add questions about sanitation and use of protective gear, agrees Mark Stanton, general manager for PowerFleet, a provider of telematics and fleet management software. Additionally, says Stanton, telematics provides for access control and a digital record of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.17
May 03, 2022
…satisfied. They’re still contending with the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing labor and supply shortages, and a never-ending string of disruptions. These challenges will pass. Other changes, like the exponential increase in e-commerce sales and direct-to-consumer deliveries, are permanent, and automation can play a role. Distribution centers (DCs) are handling more items than ever, while having to do it accurately and with greater speed to meet increasingly high customer expectations. Once taken for granted, the DC is now a vital component of a company’s go-to-market strategy. “The last four or five years for supply chain leaders has felt a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.16
March 11, 2021
…robotics have been happening for years, notes Counihan, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent increase in e-commerce have changed the automation business case and greatly accelerated adoption. “Post-Covid, resilience is a new variable in the automation business case calculation that represents the ability to continue to operate in the event of future labor shocks,” says Counihan. “With resilience now in the equation, automation investments can make sense where they did not before and automation investments that made sense before are now obvious decisions.” Kristi Montgomery, vice president of innovation, research and development with Kenco, a major third-party logistics (3PL) provider, also…
