Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.71
April 06, 2017
…not likely to disappear anytime soon. Similar to most infrastructure jobs, truck drivers depend on a wide range of skills to carry out their jobs every day. Just as there are different types of doctors, there are different types of truck drivers – from heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers who focus on long-haul journeys to delivery truck drivers who carry lighter loads and navigate local streets. Read APICS Blog: Truck Drivers (Still) Wanted Not surprisingly, many of these drivers are not simply sitting behind the wheel all day on auto drive. They also inspect their freight loads, fix equipment, make…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.70
February 16, 2017
…path planning, and passive suspension. The OTTO solution offers infrastructure-free navigation to enable flexible automation, hassle-free implementation, and scalability. About OTTO Motors OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath, provides self-driving vehicles designed exclusively for indoor material transport. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation for industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered to provide customer excellence. About Clearpath Robotics Clearpath provides industry-leading self-driving vehicle technology and services to over 500 of the world’s most innovative brands. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered through the company’s research and industrial divisions: Clearpath Robotics…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 14.74
February 16, 2017
OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath, provides self-driving vehicles designed exclusively for indoor material transport. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation for industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered to provide customer excellence.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.78
January 17, 2017
…robots, vision-guided vehicles and more—some of which require no infrastructure to successfully navigate. As these vehicles become increasingly comfortable in dynamic, unstructured environments, these platforms have quickly migrated from manufacturing applications to warehousing supporting manufacturing to pure warehousing and distribution. “We’re seeing a tremendous amount of interest on both the user and supplier side with lots of new players jumping into this space,” says Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). “We became aware several years ago of a big potential market for AGVs in warehousing, and now it’s really happening. They are opening new opportunities that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.45
December 23, 2016
…forklifts based on standard trucks that navigate without external infrastructure. Fluke announces acquisition of eMaint Enterprises Provider of electronic test tools and software acquires SaaS CMMS developer. Heico Companies acquires Ancra Systems automatic truck loading and unloading systems. Duravant acquires Arpac Engineered equipment provider expands secondary packaging equipment and integration capabilities in North America. Box On Demand partners with Sealed Air Partnership to create right-sized packages for combinations of SKUs. Research and markets Industrial Truck Association announces record-breaking 2015 North American lift truck sales ITA data reports highest lift truck sales since 2006. New report highlights the opportunities and risks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.68
December 20, 2016
…number of countries such as China, India, Japan, Taiwan and Australia among others investing heavily in research and development infrastructure developments. Rapid growth in automation demands coupled with reduction of duties on refurbished goods has also fueled growth in the industrial robotics market. Similarly, North America and Europe collectively accounted for over one-third of the market share, as these regions have been continually focusing on research and development and have been using industrial robotics for the same.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.61
December 18, 2016
…China, it’s been working on building an underlying physical infrastructure in the US with investments in Jet.com, Lyft and Groupon. It has encountered difficulties while doing this, including a sale last year of 11 Main, a local marketplace. Alibaba’s real competitive advantage may lie in its anticipated rapid development of the local Chinese logistics infrastructure, which could give it ownership of low origin prices for exports as well as fulfillment on shipments to China. 3. Everything as a Service One result of the Ecommerce Cold War is an attempt to expand services across the supply chain. Amazon started with online…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.02
November 08, 2016
…facilities. But traditional AGVs required some kind of an infrastructure for the guidance system, such as tape on the floor or reflectors. At some point, a member of the Clyde materials team saw a story on a mobile robotic solution with a new kind of guidance system. That set off the light bulb. “What is unique about this technology is that it has cameras mounted on the robot to map the facility,” Keppler explains. “You walk it along, and it learns the paths. It also has sensors that know whether it is on a collision course with a person or…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.63
May 03, 2016
…sectors, as well as building automation, medical, transportation and infrastructure and other non-industrial sectors. Industrial sectors accounted for over half of the world market in 2014 and 2015, and they are expected to grow much more slowly than non-industrial sectors. Generally transportation and infrastructure, medical, and gaming sectors will grow more quickly than the general market through 2019. Robotics is the fastest growing industrial sector for PCs, followed by materials-handling equipment, food, beverage and tobacco machinery, and packaging machinery. “Tobacco and packaging machinery are closely connected with consumer markets and enjoy relatively stable performance, no matter what the overall economic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.58
May 01, 2016
…existing zone pick. No changes are required to the infrastructure. Given their relative light weight, the robots could work on a mezzanine. The robots are guided by LocusPoints—the company’s term for a 2D bar code installed on the bottom of the storage units. And while Kiva managed the inventory inside the Kiva system, Quiet’s WMS is in charge of inventory management. When the building is fully operational, Welty anticipates that he will be able to run it with about 150 of the units. “Kiva’s design concepts are 10 years old,” says Welty. “Given the technology limitations of the time, they…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.56
May 01, 2016
…says Trebilcock. “They wanted to create a shared asset/shared infrastructure fulfillment platform for piece picking, and they wanted a solution that allowed them to start small and scale up as the business grew.” Quiet matched their desires with Kiva Systems’ mobile e-fulfillment robots, and the game changed—and their business took off. However, Quiet got a wake-up call in March 2012, when Amazon purchased Kiva for $775 million. In time, Amazon decided to take Kiva off the market and stop supporting installed systems in the future—and the game took yet another turn. Starting on page 16, Trebilcock shares the story of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.40
April 28, 2016
…fiducials or reflectors to the operating environment. The system is reconfigurable to accommodate changing operational preferences and/or changing facility infrastructure. It is also easily redeployable between various processes due to increase or decrease in production volume. This solution will be introduced at AUTOMATICA 2016 (Messe München | Munich, Germany | June 21-24, 2016). For more information, please visit Yaskawa’s booth (Hall B6 | booth 502). Additionally, the solution will be introduced in the United States at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (McCormick Place | Chicago, Illinois | September 12-17, 2016). Please visit Yaskawa’s booth (N-6600).
