Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.62
…inventory and production costs Slash their shipping expenses Accelerate delivery times Provide a faster and on-demand customer experience Say farewell to third-party resellers, long-distance carriers, and other middlemen in their supply chains The players in the industry should follow the advice of Caterpillar’s Additive Manufacturing product manager, Stacey DelVecchio, who states the best strategy for manufacturers right now is to “think big, start small, and act fast.” Related White Papers 7 Logistics Trends That Will Radically Change the Manufacturing Industry in 2020 This white paper reveals the 7 logistics trends that will have a profound impact on the industry in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.62
…Improved workflows: pull requests, code review, approvals Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines Reusable and reproducible configurations Rollback capabilities Security enhancements Auditing and traceability Software parameterization “We've added scale, time, and weight factors, so it's easy to get to the cause of a problem,” Cerruti said. “If there's an incident—say, elastic scalability isn't triggering fast enough—you can go back and look at the metrics for load peak.” “It's less about visibility, and more about control management for complex applications,” he explained. “It's a subtle difference from observability and is part of our continuous improvement drive for RobOps.” InOrbit's cloud platform for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.61
…Autonomous ground vehicles, or AGVs, such as warehouse robots, delivery bots, or service robot, need this capability for logistics and retail applications. Air mobility is another area that we want to pursue. What does the recent AutoSens 2022 gold award for perception software mean to you? Lee: We were honored to be recognized for the second year in a row by AutoSens. Having this kind of recognition among our peers in the automotive space is a very important in that it highlights the potential of SVNet for that specific industry. This is essential when pursuing relationships with OEMs and Tier…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.59
…critical ways – greater customer satisfaction due to improved delivery times and improved in-stock positions. NFI needed a flexible and scalable solution to optimize order fulfillment by increasing pick efficiency and order accuracy while ensuring safety. The robotic solution now in place did that by improving pick processes by complementing worker efforts on the warehouse floor.Analytics Solution Provider Award – LeanDNA End User Award – Dell Technologies A multinational aerospace company needed to optimize inventory and address shortages. Furthermore, the company’s analytics sat on 600,000 speadsheets. In just 61 days, LeanDNA went from demo to first action on a new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.59
…technology like drones or autonomous automobiles that enhance the delivery of products. Although certain robots are continuously being developed only for the food industry, such as in-store robotics that replenish shelves and robotic dispensers that prepare food, the primary focus for all food and beverage facilities, regardless of the products they distribute, is to automate the storage and retrieval of goods. “Today, the ways in which products are delivered depends on how they will be consumed,” says Cory Hypes, executive vice president of Power Automation Systems. “As consumers continue to desire a more diverse product line, distributors will have to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.58
…acknowledged that GPR could ultimately find applications in agriculture, delivery robots, and utilities. “We're tapping a sea of data that's never really been tapped at this scale. It's like the early days of GPS,” he said. “There's certainly road condition and subsurface characterization, utility infrastructure, and mapping, but we could also eventually move into mining, contruction, ports, and airside operations for luggage tugs.” GPR uses 1. ultra-wideband radar, 2. detailed mapping of subsurface features, and 3. an algorithm for precise tracking of vehicle locations. Source: WaveSense Funding to fuel WaveSense growth Technology investors Rhapsody Venture Partners and Impossible Ventures led…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.57
…to bussing tables, from the dirty work to dish delivery, Bear Robotics makes Servi, a foodservice robot that eases workloads in restaurants. From hotels and restaurants to senior living centers and schools, Bear Robotics solutions provide flexibility and efficiency. Picnic Work Pizza Station reduces food waste Picnic said the Pizza Station can assemble 100 pizzas per hour and can help customers reduce food waste. The company also provides customers with kitchen point-of-sale equipment and a mobile payment app. “The customer roster for the Picnic Pizza Station includes managed foodservice providers Compass, Chartwells, and Sodexo Live!, Domino's Pizza Enterprises, Texas A&M…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.57
…and depend on their responsiveness, technical support, and on-time delivery to remain competitive,” he said. “With current very long lead times at most robotics companies, T.I.E. Master Robotics has most of what we need in stock or can deliver it within pre-COVID lead times.” Robots.com gets renewed ”We're in the process of implementing our long-term vision for making Robots.com more valuable,” said Bush. “The first phase is to make it look more like one of our sites, with a slight revamping and rebranding. We also wanted to make it easier for customers to contact us through the site.” In the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.57
…that in comparison with other industries (e.g., mining, logistics, delivery, etc.) the agricultural industry has been slow to digitize,” according to the market research firm. “Several reasons for this include high upfront costs, low margin of the agricultural industry, insufficient trust from farmers, lack of robustness of agricultural robots, and many others.” Despite the challenges, IDTechEx said the agricultural robot market will “remain bullish for the upcoming decade, with a two-digit growth rate per year.” Major uses for robots in farming include milking, spraying, and fruit and vegetable harvesting, it noted. Suppliers are also offering different RaaS models to make…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.57
…such as Scan & Go, curbside pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Inventory Scan adds robot functionality Announced earlier this month, Inventory Scan works with Brain Corp's BrainOS artificial intelligence and Tennant's floor-cleaning robots to combine autonomy and ease of use with existing equipment, said the companies. The new towers will be fitted to almost 600 robots, making them among the first multifunction systems, said Brain Corp. Once installed on a scrubber, the cloud-connected Inventory Scan tower can capture data as it moves autonomously around a club store, acording to the companies. The tower will send reports to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.56
…picking and inventory replenishment, significantly increasing throughput to speed delivery processes, said Locus. The AMRs significantly reduce unproductive walking time, eliminate the need for people to maneuver heavy manual carts through warehouses, lower the physical demands on employees, and improve workplace ergonomics and quality, it said. In addition, GEODIS said the robots reduce tedious, repetitive tasks and increase worker retention across its sites. The company said this allows it to enhance its operations and meet evolving customer needs. Locus Robotics to expand global footprint Locus said its AMRs collaborate with human workers to double or triple productivity, with less labor…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.55
…refineries Indoor inspection: With high-bandwidth, low-latency communication with cloud mapping systems Film and entertainment: Vlogging, movies and photography Mapping Delivery: Package, food, and equipment Naturally, cybersecurity is a concern with any Internet of Things (IoT)-connected system. Is that up to developers to guarantee, or are any measures built into the platform? Sweet: As the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform is an open platform, the developers are responsible for the security of their end product. Still, the system is equipped with secure boot and TrustZone digital rights management (DRM), enabling highly secure end products.