Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.91
December 02, 2021
At the Slush startup event in Helsinki today, MOOVE GmbH and Sensible 4 Oy announced that they have partnered to bring a new serial-produced, self-driving shuttle bus to the European market in 2023. “We are excited about this partnership, bringing highly automated Level 4 driving to our Mover platform and serving customers with specific automatic and autonomous solutions,” said Stefan Miltenyi, CEO of MOOVE. Funded in 2018 at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, MOOVE is developing electric and autonomous vehicles. The startup said it is designing its light commercial vehicle platform for a delivery and passenger service ecosystem that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.45
December 02, 2021
ACIENNA Inc. yesterday announced the high-current ±65 Amp MCx1101 Current Sensor, which it claimed is the industry’s most accurate and highest-bandwidth current sensor. The sensor is designed for wideband gap applications such as industrial robots, manufacturing systems, electric vehicles, servers, and home automation. “ACEINNA’s MCx1101 current sensors are fully integrated, bi-directional, and provide much higher DC and AC accuracy and dynamic range compared with alternative solutions,” said Teoman Ustun, vice president of marketing at ACEINNA. “For example, the new ±65 Amp versions have a typical accuracy of ±3%. This new current sensor utilizes an industry standard SOIC-16 package with a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.92
December 01, 2021
Caja Robotics, which provides automation for order fulfillment, today announced that Dr. Christian E. Baur, formerly CEO of Swisslog, has joined the company as senior advisor. Following a successful rollout of Caja’s warehouse robots in the U.S. and responding to growing demand for automation in the EU, Baur will support building a strong network of clients and partners to fortify the company’s presence in Europe. Founded in 2014, Caja Robotics offers robots for goods-to-person order fulfillment. The Binyamina, Israel-based company said its systems are intended to improve warehouse pick-up order efficiency, increase storage capacity, and optimize employees’ workplaces. Caja added…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.26
December 01, 2021
Until recently, small to midsize distributors weren't expected to invest in high levels of automation, but changing customer expectations driven by e-commerce and improving technology capabilities have brought robotics within reach. Goods-to-person and robot-to-goods picking systems can now affordably deliver the same levels of service for business-to-business purchases as for business-to-consumer ones. One example is Top Notch Distributors Inc., which has deployed robots from 6 River Systems. Honesdale, Pa.-based Top Notch Distributors is a wholesale distributor of architectural door hardware to residential and commercial dealers. As recently as eight years ago, the company was operating without a warehouse management system…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.17
November 30, 2021
The current challenge as holidays near Supply chain experts have been raising alarms for the 2021 holiday season for months. Shoppers have been told as early as mid-September to start buying well before November, thanks to supply chain woes and uncertainty around the delta variant. According to economist John Rutledge, we have quite some time before we are out of the woods. The toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on our supply chains will only continue to inflict pain on our global supply chain and contribute to the current logjam well into 2023. As more variants spread, major ports will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.44
November 29, 2021
Leading into this week's re:Invent event, Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of AWS IoT RoboRunner, a new service intended to make it easier for companies to build and deploy applications for robotic fleets. The unit of Amazon.com Inc. also announced the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator in partnership with MassRobotics. AWS re:Invent, which is being held this week in Las Vegas and virtually, is Amazon Web Services' annual event featuring numerous technology announcements and user workshops. Amazon said that the AWS IoT RoadRunner and the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator reflect its ongoing commitment to helping robotics developers, including through…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.44
November 26, 2021
International trade has been particularly challenging in the past few years, with political conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply chain problems affecting customer satisfaction and profits. But robots can enable companies to overcome these challenges. HAI Robotics this week said that it has successfully helped WINIT, a Chinese cross-border warehouse operator, with its e-commerce order-fulfillment business in the U.K. as the holiday shopping season begins in earnest. Founded in 2016, HAI Robotics has more than 1,200 staffers, more than half of whom are engineers. It said it has acquired more than 600 global patents for core intellectual properties involving positioning,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.45
November 25, 2021
Nimble Robotics Inc. this week said that its robots have picked and packed hundreds of thousands of customer orders on a daily basis. The San Francisco-based startup claimed that its robots use artificial intelligence to “pick, pack, and fulfill online orders to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand e-commerce fulfillment.” “E-commerce continues to grow rapidly, but the available warehouse labor force is actually declining,” said Simon Kalouche, founder and CEO of Nimble Robotics. “These opposing trends are creating historic labor shortages and a growing labor supply void. Our robots are being used to augment the human workforce…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.37
November 24, 2021
Even before this year's holiday rush, retailers and logistics providers were struggling with snarled supply chains, labor turnover, 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.92
November 15, 2021
The acceleration of demand for e-commerce order fuflillment has encouraged robotics providers to partner to offer their systems at scale. Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. today announced that it has added Urbx Logistics to its Diamond Partner OEM Program. Mitsubishi said the program is an extension of its commitment to achieve the highest level of quality, performance, and efficiency for its customers. “The Urbx mission brings automated, on-demand retail fulfillment to everyone,” stated Lincoln Cavalieri, CEO of Urbx Logistics. “Through working with Mitsubishi Electric Automation, we see an enormous opportunity to leverage their industry-leading robotics system architecture in a groundbreaking way.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.58
November 15, 2021
Toposens GmbH last week said it has worked with Infineon Technologies AG to provide safety-critical 3D obstacle detection and collision avoidance in systems such as automated guided vehicles, or AGVs, using Toposens' proprietary 3D ultrasound technology. “Making use of Infineon’s MEMS microphone, we were able to realize our new ultrasonic 3D sensor with a high overall sensitivity in the ultrasonic frequency spectrum, giving us the best range and widest opening angle,” said Tobias Bahnemann, co-founder and CEO of Toposens. “This enables our AGVs, robots, or other applications to avoid collisions with all kinds of obstacles, even in the harshest environments,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.58
November 14, 2021
The first phase of warehouse robotics may be coming to close. That’s because vendors today are talking more about fulfillment processes, integration, and software rather than the robots. The types of robotic systems available has matured and diversified. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can assist warehouse associates with picking efficiency. There are also AMRs that move larger loads, autonomous lift trucks, goods-to-person automation, and mobile manipulators. In the past couple of years, rapid progress has been made with pick-and-place systems that use artificial intelligence and articulating robotic arms. This proliferation of warehouse robotics has come pretty fast and already has brought…
