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…fleets. The Shanghai-based company said applications such as last-mile delivery and logistics robots in restricted areas also use its sensors. Hesai, which has offices in Palo Alto, Calif., raised more than $300 million in Series D funding in June 2021. It asserted that its commercially validated systems are backed by research and development capabilities across optics, mechanics, electronics, and software. The company added that it “integrates lidar designs with an in-house manufacturing process, facilitating rapid product development while ensuring high performance, consistent quality, and affordability.” Hesai recently said its ET25 lidar is quiet and can be placed behind a car…
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…as Alibaba and Amazon. Download Now! Precise Cross-Belt Sortation: Unlocking Efficient E-Commerce Distribution In the burgeoning e-commerce market, speedy delivery and diverse offerings are customer expectations, and the ability to deliver these via a seamless customer experience will increasingly separate leaders from laggards. Download Now! Five Ways to Optimize Your Distribution Center For E-Commerce Fulfillment Today’s challenge has now become how to manage fast-moving inventory with enough precision to meet the expectations for prompt shipment of multiple small orders. Download Now!
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…and capable enough to support brick-and-mortar, e-commerce, B2B, home deliveries and parcel shipments—to name just a few. Achieving this balance requires one of two things: a whole lot of labor and real estate, or advanced technology that helps to offset issues like high labor costs while also streamlining the process and making it more efficient than ever. And while most companies are at least thinking about how to make that happen, many are still using antiquated processes like pen-and-paper and spreadsheets to manage inventory and track product movement within the four walls of the warehouse. “The majority of companies out…
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…along with our world-class dealer channel, will accelerate the delivery of solutions to farmers that address the immense challenge of feeding a growing world,” he said. Founded in 2017, Bear Flag Robotics is developing autonomous driving technology compatible with existing machines. The Newark, Calif.-based startup said its mission is to increase global agricultural production while decreasing the cost of growing food through automation. Bear Flag added that its technology can increase safety, reliability, and profitability on farms. Bear Flag shares agricultural mission John Deere first started working with Bear Flag Robotics in 2019 as part of its Startup Collaborator program,…
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…with the best possible shopping experience with reliable, fast delivery times and complete visibility,” said Jose Miguel Cortés, chief operating officer for Spanish-speaking countries at Dafiti Group. “As we plan for future growth, we knew that within the next five years, we’d need a solution that could give us increased flexibility and scalability.” Founded in 2011, Dafiti Group claimed that it is the largest fashion and lifestyle e-commerce business in Latin America. The São Paolo, Brazil-based company said it “aims to revolutionize the fashion ecosystem with intelligence.” Dafiti operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia and has more than 3,800…
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…label, this transformation will touch every aspect of the automation ecosystem, from product design to manufacturing processes to the delivery at a customer’s door. The AI & Automation Conference, October 28-29, will help unlock the power of AI by featuring discussions on data strategy, advances in AI robotics and machine vision, and AI-powered optimization and prediction. MCMA Technical Conference MCMA TechCon, November 9-10, will provide the latest updates on motion control, motors, and related automation technologies. Sessions will explore practical solutions from leading experts covering new ways to use these key components along with important new technologies.
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…for putaway. The process reverses itself for picking and delivery to order fulfillment. Sure Sort from OPEX is a proprietary small-item sorting system that receives items from a conveyor delivery system. A robotic item sorter directs each item to a designated sortation location. There they can be moved either to a storage location like the OPEX Perfect Pick or fulfillment station. AutoStore offers a proprietary system that uses robots running on a track grid to putaway and retrieve items in a highly compact cube storage arrangement. Inventory density is high, and up to five layers of cubes can be stacked…
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…versions of both systems will be ready for customer delivery in the first half of 2023. Sarcos’ facilities in Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh can produce 300 to 500 robots, depending on the mix. The company plans to expand production capacity by partnering with a contract manufacturer. Sarcos’ robotic systems include baseline software enabling basic controls, teleoperation, and semi-autonomous capabilities. Sarcos will provide additional software options, such as supervised autonomy as an incremental service. Sarcos’ supervised autonomy framework uses multi-modal sensor data to optimally perceive, interact, and conceptualize unstructured environments. Combined with our success-based learning AI approach, the supervised autonomy…
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…stated Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO. “Third-party logistics, parcel delivery, and warehouse operators need to orchestrate robots performing different tasks, and interoperability across robot vendors is one piece of that puzzle. Now customers can connect any compatible robot to the InOrbit cloud.” Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit said its robot-agnostic management platform can enable robotics suppliers and operators to develop, deploy, and orchestrate AMRs at global scale. The company said its multi-cloud platform provides secure real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring, incident management, and remote interventions. “MassRobotics released this standard to help move the industry to the next level…
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…open another production facility to reduce transportation costs and delivery lead times, he said. Like other technology providers, AutoStore has dealt with supply chain disruptions. “We distinguish between modules—everything that moves, including robots and parts,” Schitter said. “We produce these modules out of Poland for the global market, and we want to get our people and products as close to the customer as possible.” “For larger volumes of, say, aluminum extrusion parts, in 2019, we had only two suppliers,” he noted. “Now, we have 11, and by the end of the year, we'll have 14 out of nine different countries.…
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…Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership completed a long-distance drone delivery test, delivering an ice-cream cone to a child. The Kansas Department of Transportation flew a BVLOS flight, where almost 50 people watched a demonstration where drones were flown beyond pilots’ sight. In Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation and FAA used drones to help bait feral hog traps. Earlier this year, Dan Elwell, the Acting Administrator of the FAA, talked about the FAA being “open for business” in terms of how the agency wanted to actively collaborate with drone industry stakeholders. Related Article: Warehouse Drones Ready for Digital Inventory Management Related Resources…
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…including strategic hires and the development of an Innovation Delivery Method for identifying, validating and deploying technologies that can improve customer outcomes at scale (see box, p. 24). Today, NFI’s innovation portfolio includes electric and natural gas vehicles, solar energy, artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. The 3PL also participates in the Blockchain in Transport Alliance initiative. The adoption of AMRs is a good illustration of the Innovation Delivery Method in action, according to Jimmy Shafer, senior vice president of integrated design and solutions, who shepherded the project. The initiative began in 2017 as part of the company’s review of its…