Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.53
March 28, 2021
…support developers of new products to optimize their designs without compromise or restraint.” Primus Aerospace said expects to take delivery of the titanium Sapphire System in the first quarter, and it will begin offering titanium printing at their facility located in Golden, Colo.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.36
March 27, 2021
…the explosive growth of e-commerce and demand for faster deliveries,” stated Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder and chief operating officer Plus. “We developed PlusDrive to address the critical business issues fleets are facing today — keeping their drivers happy and productive, reducing operating costs, and meeting sustainability goals.” The two long-haul routes for the pilot, each of which take two to three days to complete round-trip, were chosen for Plus to demonstrate the full potential of PlusDrive to improve safety, reduce fuel cost, enhance driver comfort, and lower carbon emissions. Plus said it has operated over 100,000 km (over 62,000 mi.) autonomously…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.52
March 26, 2021
…to have multiple options for receiving goods, including home delivery, click and collect, in-store collection, and, more recently, robotic street kiosks. As a result, distribution centers need robots that can work with a variety of package sizes and shapes in the shortest time possible, ABB said. Operators need the right infrastructure for maximum flexibility that can pick and handle a wide variety of goods in the widest range of combinations and in the shortest possible time. The IRB 390 FlexPacker robot is available as a four- and five-axis variant delta robot. It is 35% faster than the IRB 360-8/1130 FlexPicker,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.43
March 26, 2021
…fulfillment through automation in a way that met customer delivery windows while keeping utilization high and steady. The first WES suppliers got a foothold in Distribution Centers (DCs) that were installing high-end, fixed automation like sortation systems. These operations needed a nimbler way of releasing work to the floor versus the “waves” of work that most warehouse management system solutions of the time batched together for processing. Today, that core purpose for WES still remains, but the value proposition is expanding. Instead of optimization of one major automation system in mind, it’s about optimizing flow across all assets and resources,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.06
March 25, 2021
…our customers the strategic advantage of deploying an efficient, low-cost, and rapidly deployable fulfillment solution, thus achieving faster last-mile delivery.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.67
March 24, 2021
…the last mile FedEx is still testing the Roxo delivery robot, but outdoor operations are “hard to crack,” said Prather. “It's closer to an autonomous vehicle problem than an AMR problem because of all the weird stuff that happens in the real world. Even in our chaotic sort facilities, we can control how people interact with AMRs.” “Roxo is currently doing test runs with our FedEx Office team, and we're looking for partners like Lowe's, Home Depot, or Pizza Hut as potential users of the robot,” he said. “So if we're not using the robot at a particular time, maybe…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.11
March 23, 2021
…of mission-critical components for space rockets, jet engines, fuel delivery systems and energy production with better performance, at faster speed and lower cost than traditional methods.” The company added that its growth strategy is to focus on products that only it can produce within the more than $100 billion total addressable market for high-value metal parts. VELO3D plans to invest the additional capital in engineering, product development, sales, marketing, and customer support. Existing customers of VELO3D include SpaceX, Honeywell, Boom Supersonic, Chromalloy, and Lam Research. In the fourth quarter, VELO3D plans to begin shipping its Sapphire XC laser printing system,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.30
March 21, 2021
…which claimed to be a leader in on-demand drone delivery for food and retail. Flytrex said the investment comes in the wake of several significant milestones. In September 2020, the company announced a benchmark pilot project to deliver select grocery and household essential items from Walmart stores in Fayetteville, N.C., using Flytrex’s autonomous drone delivery service. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Flytrex had launched a system delivering necessities to residents of Grand Forks, N.D., helping address the growing health crisis by keeping citizens in the safety of their own homes and reducing crowding and unnecessary contact at local stores.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.38
March 20, 2021
…a “Smart City” Warehouse Design Urban and Suburban Package Delivery Improving Material Handling Automation and Material Handling Advanced Sensors for Material Handling Advanced Vision Systems and Material Handling Truck and Operation Evolution Industrial Design of Vehicles Operator Ergonomics Neurotechnology Applications in Material Handling This year, the University Research Program has added a new optional concept paper step in the process. This step is a way that professors and student researchers can connect with the University Research Program reviewers for initial input of their submission. Professors and researchers are encouraged (but not required) to submit a one page concept paper explaining…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.04
February 22, 2021
…defined by its theoretical length, duration, or cost. Experienced delivery drivers have tacit knowledge about the complex operational environment in which they serve customers on a daily basis. To allow for safer, more efficient, and sustainable last-mile delivery, it is critical to leveraging this tacit information for improved route planning. The last-mile objective The primary goal of the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is to encourage participants to develop innovative approaches leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and other non-conventional methods to produce solutions to the route sequencing problem which outperform traditional, optimization-driven operations research methods in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.30
February 19, 2021
…has put on their internal operations, customer service, and delivery partners. “Both manufacturers and retailers, faced with ecommerce volumes that no one anticipated until 2025, are trying to meet this outsized demand with networks that were not prepared to handle this much volume this soon for such an extended period.” So then, the questions on many minds are these: How can existing supply chains rapidly mature to the same five-year future level? And how can a business rise to the current challenges with only the resources at hand? Like most supply chain decisions, the answers to these questions are found…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.64
February 18, 2021
…management, collaboration, and traceability capabilities that can improve product delivery and promote reuse, accelerating development cycles and eliminating costly rework. Teamcenter’s data management capabilities, in particular, are critical to accommodate the huge amounts of data collected from radar, Lidar, and artificial intelligence, Momoh says. Siemens and MaRS work together to find potential startups that would be the best match for the software and specifically, for which elements of the Siemens platform. Once selected, the partners put together a curriculum that instructs engineering users in how use the tools as well as how to optimize for particular use cases. MayaHTT, a…
