Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.75
September 10, 2018
…from Michael Kors, Canadian Tire, Geodis and a former Amazon and Walmart executive. Finding that key partner in the organization who can be a champion for the project remains elusive, as does getting the attention of senior decision makers. But, the labor issue came up in this session as well. Brock Eckles, director of strategic solutions for the 3PL Geodis, noted that a large consumer electronics company that is one of his clients has made a decision to invest heavily in automation because they can no longer fight the war over associates. Ron Kyslinger, a former Walmart SVP, argued that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.71
April 10, 2023
…Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. In the case of Amazon and Kohl's, it's not on the sales side but the returns side. Why would Kohl's allow Amazon users to return items to its stores? Returns helped its foot traffic for buying. How have this evolution and micro-fulfillment affected warehouse processes? Kohli: Robotics and automation can make half their problems go away. As human beings, we think of different brands, but the challenges for warehouse managers are how to manage resources and getting personnel trained on picking and packing. The analogy here is that robots are like the cloud era. You…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.61
May 11, 2021
…also received support from major software vendors. Last month, Amazon Web Services Inc. announced support for ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, the latest long-term support release for ROS 2, as well as the Gazebo 11 simulation engine and the Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that “ROS 2 Foxy is the most secure and reliable ROS distribution to date for production robotics application development.” While AWS RoboMaker no longer supports ROS Kinetic, its support of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy for simulation and development does include Navigation2 (Nav2). Nav2 “is the second generation of the ROS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.58
October 28, 2021
…week, Near Earth announced that Guy Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery service of Amazon.com Inc., has joined its board of directors. Kajima takes drone inspections indoors Manual tunnel inspections are time-consuming for site employees because of the long distances between construction sections and the irregular environments that require continuous climbing and ducking to get through, noted Near Earth Autonomy. Manually performing inspection tasks can also be dangerous because tunnel and underground sites are generally dark and narrow. Autonomous drones can accelerate the progress of inspection tasks and eliminate the risk of human injury, the company added.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.57
May 23, 2019
…delivered to your door in ten minutes. Shopping online? Amazon’s 30-minute package delivery could get consumer products to you in record time. In theory, this is the future of the transportation and logistics industry. Yet when we go outside, the skies aren’t filled with a swarm of drones whirring above us as they carry packages to our doorsteps. Why not? The technology exists to make drone deliveries feasible, but there are plenty of impediments - regulations on airspace, package weight, the need for certified pilots - that prevent large-scale adoption today. In practice, we still have a long way to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.57
April 18, 2022
…still, both retailers reported an overall increase in sales. Amazon posted a $206 million operating loss for the 4th quarter of 2021 and a 1% drop in revenue at its online stores. Amazon! Now, I don’t think we’re all going to go racing back to stores for everything, given the convenience of shopping online. But it made me wonder how the dynamism of this market might impact the implementation of micro-fulfillment centers, or MFCs. Those are defined as those systems put in 5,000 to 10,000 square feet in the back of a grocery store or big box retailer; or facilities…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.56
November 23, 2020
…one of the official channel partners, which include 3D Printlife, IT-Works 3D, Makerwiz, Midwest Technology, Printed Solid, Mouser and Amazon. SynDaver’s synthetic humans, animal models and task trainers simulate the anatomy of live patients in detail, including individual muscles, tendons, veins, arteries, nerves and organ systems. The company’s synthetic tissues are made of water, fibers and salts, and each has been validated against the relevant living tissue for mechanical and physical properties.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.51
April 07, 2022
…pandemic, and last but not least, the opportunity for greater visibility into operations. Most importantly, delegations from corporations including Amazon, CVS, General Electric, Target, and more were at MODEX, scouting out the latest tools, comparing notes, and looking to make deals on the show floor or at many dinners around Atlanta. In fact, some robotics vendors told me that they have already booked orders through next year. This was Robotics 24/7's first year at this event. After more than 50 appointments last week, here are some robotics takeaways from MODEX 2022 (see right, or below on mobile). Did I miss…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.35
August 13, 2018
…commercial adoption than AMRs. Kiva, which was acquired by Amazon in 2013, was a pioneer of autonomous mobile robots for goods to man picking. The Kiva robots rely on people to unbox items and put them in bins on shelves that are later delivered to workers who pick products. Newer AMRs from companies like Locus Robotics can also travel to pick locations where they meet workers who pick and place items on the robots (robot-to-goods picking, as opposed to goods-to-man). The symbiotic relationship between workers and robots has given rise to a new term, collaborative robots or cobots. Cobots complement…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.32
April 30, 2021
…2 on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Amazon AWS RoboMaker starting in the second half of 2021. It added that it anticipates more robot applications incorporating the cloud and artificial intelligence to be deployed. To familiarize users to ROS 2 and expose its new features to operators, Doosan said it will supply tutorial packages on creating robot functions via its partner supporting site, Doosan Robot LAB. Video tutorials on ROS application will also be available on the site. Doosan Robotics has been supporting ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic since 2019, and additionally distributed the ROS Noetic package in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.27
June 08, 2018
…and do it more efficiently than ever. Walmart and Amazon can afford to develop these capabilities internally. Other companies’ primary focus is on getting orders out the door. They need to bring knowledge, expertise and innovation from the outside to help them apply technologies and systems that optimize operations. We believe companies need to have a program in place that provides 10% classroom training, 20% coaching and mentoring and 70% experience-based learning. People have to be life-long students who continuously improve. The future of distribution depends on developing a talent pool that can apply decision science and technology to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.26
May 10, 2022
…delivery robots, autonomous defense systems, and more. From the Amazon Astro consumer device and the Perseverance rover on Mars to wireless factories, robots “promise to make our lives easier, but many challenges remain,” noted Dev Singh, senior director of business development and head of autonomous robotics, drones, and intelligent machines at Qualcomm. “We've made a $70 billion investment in compute, AI, and 5G,” he said in a press briefing. “Our expanded roadmap of solutions will help bring enhanced AI and 5G technologies to support smarter, safer, and more advanced innovations.” Qualcomm announced the new platforms for the “connected intelligent edge”…
