Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.20
February 18, 2021
…without a crew to perform different missions such as delivery in urban settings, transport of critical supplies in remote environments, or carrying sensors and instruments as part of a mobile scientific exploration platform. TIGER X-1’s modular platform and leg-wheel articulation are what sets it apart from other mobility solutions as it enables the vehicle to handle a range of extreme situations while keeping payloads more level than a typical ground vehicle. “We believe the combination of leg robotics and wheels results in vehicles of unprecedented mobility,” says Dr. John Suh, head of New Horizons Studio. When its legs are retracted,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.50
February 16, 2021
…evolve our already strong infrastructure to optimize pick-up and delivery. We’re excited to kick off this pilot with The GIANT Company and Swisslog as we continue to build out e-commerce fulfillment capabilities, which we believe will be key in supporting continued omnichannel growth.” The EFC is planned for the Philadelphia market to help meet customer demand in Center City and South Philadelphia. This location is expected to fulfill approximately 15,000 online orders per week for delivery to customers’ homes. “This pilot is an exciting milestone in The GIANT Company’s omnichannel evolution as we work to transform the online grocery experience…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.64
February 15, 2021
…the next generation legs for Elevate are under Generative Design study.” He believes Elevate can be deployed in resource delivery, search-and-rescue missions and even lunar exploration. The project involves the use of lattice structures, additive manufacturing and multidisciplinary collaboration, facilitated in Autodesk Fusion 360. “Generative design allowed us to tackle a lot of complex problems that would have taken somebody a long time to solve manually,” Suh says. “I call it a mind multiplier.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.53
February 08, 2021
…Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipment to be delivered in Asia. “The delivery of this first batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Singapore is an important milestone in the fight against COVID-19, and we are honored to be able to play a part in this,” says Chin Yau Seng, senior vice president of Cargo for SIA. “It also served to demonstrate SIA’s and the Singapore air hub’s readiness for the very important job of transporting and distributing COVID-19 vaccines internationally.” In Europe, Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has constructed a new climate cool room at its Schiphol Pharma Hub in Amsterdam with temperatures ranging…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.65
February 08, 2021
…to grow, including demand for personalized features/terms, lightning fast deliveries and flexibility to make no cost shipping and order/return changes. That puts multi-point pressure on warehouse operations stretching them in a lot of different directions to drive the expected perfect order and customer satisfaction targets. The underlying conflicts from the proliferation of personalized products, the growth of each picking and next hour deliveries are creating hard-to-optimize warehouse equations. The uncertainty and disruptions of the pandemic drove customer behaviors such as the stockpiling of critical products to hedge the choppy upstream demand or canceling/cutting non-critical items to conserve cash. Customers look…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.99
February 05, 2021
…and Associate Professor Patrick Mercier Project: Vertical Hybrid Power Delivery for High-Performance Processors and Digital Systems Mobile devices must maximize battery life and minimize heat generation, limiting their performance. Autonomous vehicles rely on input/output (I/O) processor pins to handle large amounts of sensor data. However, a large number of pins are needed for power delivery. Power demands can generate data processing bottlenecks. Hardy and Abdulslam are using a novel power converter architecture to operate at optimal efficiency while reducing power losses. The team’s preliminary analysis shows this architecture can increase power delivery efficiency by up to 12%, as well as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.30
February 04, 2021
…threads. And 3D printing customer can now see per-part pricing with itemized costs as well as self-select their desired delivery date for each part within an order at checkout. “Unprecedented changes in many of our markets are underway due to customer demand and the ongoing pandemic, but technological advancement in manufacturing are throwing the doors of innovation wide open to allow suppliers and their customers to pivot quickly,” adds Rich Baker, Protolabs’ CTO who led the launch of the platform. “And that agility is often the difference between success and failure.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.72
January 26, 2021
…with the FoodX eGrocery software platform for front-end e-commerce, delivery routing, inventory management, fulfillment and reverse logistics, retailers can improve unit economics, increase speed to market and reduce capital expenditure, according to the vendors. Requiring upwards of 85% less space than typical warehouse storage and fulfillment infrastructure, Attabotics solution transforms the rows and aisles of a typical warehouse into a single, vertical storage structure that’s modular and scalable, and uses “3D” robots internally to store and retrieve items for box packers on the outside perimeter. FoodX Technologies, which has partnered with Carrefour Group and recently announced its entry into the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.66
January 12, 2021
…medical impact of something going wrong with a drug delivery device is an order of magnitude worse than a health device losing your jogging data.” The requirements of medical devices for traceability, approvals, testing and more “make the importance of the collaboration platform to be much more stringent,” he adds. Establishing the paper trail “Engineering teams in this field often spend more time on the paper trail and documentation than they spend on actual product design,” notes Benjamin Jordan, senior product manager, Fusion 360 Electronics at Autodesk. “Accordingly, anything that helps shorten those tedious design review and compliance cycles brings…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.43
January 12, 2021
…of the race Something once so innovative as two-day delivery has led to next-day delivery, which is quickly becoming obsolete as consumers demand same-day delivery. This trend has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as more consumers become comfortable with online ordering of perishable items and groceries. One of the significant changes in supply chain strategies we are seeing as a result of this is the rise of fulfillment centers that bring fulfillment closer to the consumer. Fulfillment centers Typically, one of the dominant components in a company’s supply chain was the large warehouse or distribution center that acted as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.42
January 07, 2021
…have gone from fringe to mainstream. Concurrently, new last-mile delivery models are shaking up the balance of power in package delivery. Alan Amling, a fellow at University of Tennessee and CEO at Thrive and Advance, LLC, uses this time to explore the emerging last-mile landscape—from fulfillment to the front porch—and provide alternatives to consider as companies navigate a world where disruptions are the rule, and not the exception. COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce by five years in just five months, Amling says. It has also boosted innovation, with supply chain companies and retailers innovating and pivoting to keep up with changing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.40
January 06, 2021
…a last minute, high priority order. A next-day air delivery order for multiple items is dropped on a warehouse. The WES can prioritize a receipt of an inbound shipment containing the necessary inventory and can allocate receiving resources and assign available dock doors and automation. Upon scan of the inbound carton, the WES coordinates with the WMS to send the carton to replenishment. The WMS/WES issues a task to replenish the inventory. A pick command is generated without a wave to pickers within the zones containing the inventory, the units are picked into multiple bins, and then the bins are…
