Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
July 26, 2021
…centrally or locally,” noted Thomas Andersson, principal analyst and co-founder of Styleintelligence. However, companies should understand that micro-fulfillment centers can require process changes. “MFC is more or less an additional store,” said Knapp in the study. “When we build an MFC, we give it a store identifier, and we replenish not only the grocery store, but also replenishing the MFCs with its own inventory.” “We're building a very large, fully robotized replenishment system for a U.S. grocer right now that goes live in August,” said KNAPP in the study. “That system is being deployed to not only replenish stores, but…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
July 15, 2021
…for years to come,” said Gijs van der Velden, co-founder and CEO of MX3D. From design to 'living laboratory' The project was funded by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, and ABB, Air Liquide, ArcelorMittal, Autodesk, AMS Institute, and Lenovo helped MX3D realize its vision. The award-winning bridge was designed by Joris Laarman Lab, with Arup as lead engineer. “A few years ago, we came up with the idea to use the robotic 3D-metal printers that we developed to print a functional, full-size steel bridge,” said Tim Geurtjens, co-founder of MX3D. “Together with the excitement of this crazy idea also came the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.02
July 15, 2021
…the design, data, and development arm of DXC Technology Co. in Tysons, Va. It provides bespoke, end-to-end technologies for mission-critical systems, products, and services. DXC Technology helps global companies run their operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Robotic Drive gains cloud capabilities DXC Luxoft said the Robotic Drive Cloud offering brings together the production-ready Robotic Drive services, toolchain, and platform into a new, cloud-based approach for automotive customers and OEMs such as BMW. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, and more. DXC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
July 12, 2021
…expectations for rapid online order fulfillment. Whether micro-fulfillment will gain much traction outside of grocery remains to be seen. In e-grocery, there are some unique order and service-level requirements. Online shoppers typically want same-day home or curbside delivery for groceries, and you may have 40 items in a customer order, which is higher than in most other retail segments. By contrast, consumers may be fine with one- or two-day delivery for many other types of goods, though expectations tend to be rising. On-demand fulfillment network providers do offer technology, especially software tools that help determine where to hold inventory and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.17
July 07, 2021
…advanced development, analytics, and control at Festo SE & Co. KG. “This brings two major benefits: We protect our customers' data, and we gain speed because the robots can take over many tasks more quickly. In this way, the collaborative robots can, for example, support production workers with repetitive, heavy, and tiring tasks.” During the project, a total of four autonomous picking stations will be set up for training the robots: two at the IFL and two at Festo SE headquarters in Esslingen, Germany. In the FLAIROP research project, autonomous robots process articles at several picking stations by means of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.14
July 02, 2021
GeekPlus Technology Co. today announced that it has reached an industry milestone with 20,000 autonomous mobile robots sold worldwide. The Beijing-based company said its technology provides rapid growth capabilities to accelerate the transformation of the global supply chain. “In past months, we've seen worldwide curiosity turn into action with numerous business leaders deciding to invest in intelligent automation,” stated Yong Zheng, founder and CEO of Geek+. “For us, the rapid growth demonstrates our R&D team's ability to develop world-class solutions and signals future opportunities to gather more industry know-how. Our goal is to improve our customer's operation management and continue…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.29
June 10, 2021
…alongside human driven vehicles without disruption,” stated Yibiao Zhao, co-founder and CEO of ISEE. “Our solution understands its surroundings and intuitively predicts other drivers’ behavior, enabling smooth vehicle-vehicle and human-vehicle coordination, keeping equipment and drivers safe.” “Our launch marks the beginning of our mission to build towards a future where autonomous machines can thrive alongside humans and easily and safely integrate into any environment,” said Zhao. ISEE systems work alongside people A growing shortage of skilled and qualified drivers, as well as ongoing safety and efficiency challenges, has led warehouse and logistics companies to consider automation, said ISEE. While mobile…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.68
June 08, 2021
…today. It gave the company a chance to test, gain feedback, and refine the early iterations of our work with some of the toughest requirements around. That said, our focus has shifted to providing solutions to the material handling industry as a whole, especially at a time when it can impact civilian lives the most.” Theobald, who is also a co-founder of MassRobotics, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping grow the Massachusetts robotics cluster, has helped develop Vecna's technologies and lead the company to its current growth stage. Daniel Theobald “Daniel is unequivocally one of the worlds’ foremost roboticists and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
June 01, 2021
…to Digital Commerce 360, the more than five-percentage point gain in e-commerce penetration is by far the biggest year-over-year jump for U.S. retail sales ever recorded. Overall, online sales accounted for 101% of all gains in U.S. retail in 2020. This means sales through all other channels—stores, catalogs and call centers— declined. Again, this is a historical first where e-commerce accounted for all of the sales gains in U.S. retail. This growth in e-commerce was not limited to just the U.S. Other regions of the world saw similar pops in e-commerce sales. While worldwide retail sales overall fell 3% to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.37
May 12, 2021
…an important milestone for Nordex,” stated Dan Agius, Jr., co-owner and chief financial officer of Nordex. “We are ready to take our reputation for quality gears, machined parts, and assemblies to new heights by welcoming a wider range of clients from the aerospace sector.” For more than 60 years, Nordex has been developing and supplying power-transmission subsystems to customers in the medical, aerospace, defense, robotics, semiconductor, and factory automation OEM industries. The company, which is family-owned and operated, said it proudly manufactures in the U.S. Nordex added that its experienced engineering staff is always ready to answer client calls and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.74
May 03, 2021
The Kroger Co. and Drone Express today said they are collaborating on a pilot project to offer grocery delivery via autonomous drones in Centerville, Ohio. The partners plan to launch a second pilot at a Ralphs store in California this coming summer. “Kroger's new drone delivery pilot is part of the evolution of our rapidly growing and innovative e-commerce business – which includes pickup, delivery, and ship and reached more than $10 billion in sales in 2020,” stated Jody Kalmbach, group vice president of product experience at Kroger. “The pilot reinforces the importance of flexibility and immediacy to customers, powered…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
April 18, 2021
…most capable mobile manipulator available today,” said Jason Walker, co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Robotics. “In addition, setting it up requires no programming, and either robot can be the primary controller for an operation.” Waypoint's Vector includes precise positioning “We could have had a moble manipulator a while ago, but some things were missing that we felt we could do differently,” said Walker. “First, we had to find a cobot arm that was as easy to use as our AMRs, with no code interface.” The omnidirectional mobile manipulator. Source: Waypoint Robotics “We have sample functions prebuilt in Vector's controls, using…
