Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.35
April 08, 2023
…Robotics 24/7, at Heartland Ventures, we see major technological gains coming regardless of the near-term economic outlook. In recent history, construction advancements tend to come in the form of collaboration, project management, and financial management. That’s all well and good, but if you talk to any contractor right now, the core challenge they’ll identify is the lack of people. As construction companies look to provide value to their stakeholders, this issue is now more pressing than the difficulties associated with design, planning, and management functions. This is not about replacing human workers. It’s about helping the existing pool of skilled…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.59
April 04, 2023
…she said. Plug-and-play connectivity With CGConnect, remote users can gain instant access to Cloud Ground Control’s rich features, including real-time telemetry, cloud storage, video, and payload data. They can get them all from a Web browser simultaneously, the company said. Weighing only 55 grams with similar sizing to a credit card, CGConnect is easily integrated into any product design. Cloud Ground Control said it offers the following benefits: Open platform— The flexible and customizable platform operates on the MAVLink standard. This multiplies potential product applications and enables diverse autonomous vehicles and payloads to operate as a coordinated fleet. Robotic-agnostic—It works…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.03
March 22, 2023
…reports and real-time dashboards. With these reporting tools, customers gain actionable insights into labor guidance, predictive insights for work completion, operational comparisons against targets or time periods, order pool tracking and guidance, mission analysis and optimization, key performance visualization, and more, according to Locus Robotics. “LocusONE makes it easy to deploy and manage large numbers of AMRs — and multiple form factors — within very large warehouses to work together as a single, orchestrated fleet,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Based on Locus's proprietary data science engine, LocusONE enables operators to gain the flexibility and critical business intelligence…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.44
March 22, 2023
…claimed. With the addition of automated packaging solutions, the gain in capacity, cost reduction, and process improvement are even greater. “An operator just needs to place an item on to the Induction Lift and the item gets to the proper level and correct order that can be located anywhere in a tSort system. This greatly enhances the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of the picking and sortation process,” said Tompkins Robotics President & CEO, Mike Futch. “The ability to sort items and outbound customer parcels in the same system is a breakthrough in technology and will be a game changer in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.00
March 22, 2023
…improving and enhancing its technology, and it expects further gains in sustainability and efficiency in 2023. “The United States is one of the most important countries for us, and seeing the enthusiasm there is here for new automation technology is extremely exciting,” said Zheng at ProMat 2023. “I'm confident that our team and our technology can push Geek+ toward new heights of excellence.” At ProMat, the company is showing latest version of its award-winning PopPick system, the upgraded M200C mobile robot, its new Vertical Sorting Wall, and the high-density Four-Way Shuttle storage system. It is at Booths N7507 and N7307…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.45
March 18, 2023
…to rethink multi-use spaces, robotics, and customer demand to gain efficiency. Demand for logistics robots still increasing What are robots handling for your customers? Oliaro: We worked with an arts-and-crafts group in Missouri. It had small items and wanted a way to bring costs down. It owned and ran a facility that was inefficient, and we showed how to take their projected volumes and apply automation to reduce labor costs. Joe Oliaro, Wagner Logistics The challenge in that market—in a small town—was that it was constantly churning labor. Any e-commerce fulfillment center has a ton of churn. We came up…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.16
March 14, 2023
…robots with synthetic data generation (via Isaac Replicator), and gain operational efficiencies before physically implementing them in warehouses. This helps the e-commerce giant fulfill thousands of orders in a cost- and time-efficient manner [see video below]. Telexistence has deployed beverage restocking robots across 300 convenience stores in Japan. Deutsche Bahn is training AI models to handle very important but unexpected corner cases that happen rarely in the real world — like luggage falling on a train track, to improve safety. Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots. Fraunhofer is developing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.22
March 14, 2023
…at its Indianapolis campus, GEODIS has realized a productivity gain of more than 1.7x. In addition, the AMRs have saved 42% of labor hours compared with manual operations, allowing staffers to work in other areas. The current GEODIS alpha site uses autonomous pallet trucks, and later deployments will feature collaborative pallet jacks, noted Moschella. “While Vecna has no intention of entering the each-picking space, our robots could help with distribution and e-commerce fulfillment from the same facility,” he added. “The challenge facing all of these facilities is labor—most are 20% to 30% understaffed.” Vecna Robotics to be at ProMat Vecna…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.37
March 11, 2023
…to be easier in scope and have high success rates, allowing you to get organizational buy-in to robotic automation, gain comfort with the capabilities of robotics in you facilities and open the door for the next application. About the author Kyle Smith, vice president of automation at enVista, has a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering and over 18 years of material handling industry experience. He specializes in conveyor and robotic systems design, integration, and engineering management. Prior to joining enVista, Kyle worked at HCM Systems Inc. designing and integrating conveyor systems, building and managing a robotics team, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.79
March 05, 2023
…to restore buyer confidence after the first disillusionment. Source: Gain & Co 4. Seller-centric solution proposals The automation market is for the most part dominated by seller-centric solution proposals, that mostly specify what the automation solution is and not what it does for the customer. With the absence of clear goals and targets from the customer, the conversation with suppliers often becomes centered around the technical specifications of the solution in the language of the seller. This shifts the burden of proving the value of each solution away from the seller and onto the customer instead. Many businesses, especially those…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.79
March 01, 2023
…software suite allows customers to better supervise operations and gain deeper analytical insights. Moschella said the company has begun testing with a few third-party logistics customers (3PLs) alpha versions of the software that allow for greater collaboration between human agents and robots. He noted that the first application Vecna is exploring with the new version is case picking, which he said is “probably the highest-labor touch point in a distribution center.” Ideally, these new features should help reduce worker travel within a facility and better optimize a worker’s time, noted Moschella. At ProMat this month, Vecna plans to reveal which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.62
February 28, 2023
…Robotics (also known as Holland Robotics) and independent advisor Gain & Co. The company reported that the number of robotics suppliers in the Netherlands “has grown significantly.” For each of the past 12 years, an average of 11 new companies was established in the Netherlands—a 57% increase from the number of businesses formed in the prior period. The study attributed this growth to factors including the country’s highly skilled workforce, a strong focus on innovation, and an increasing demand for automation from businesses experiencing labor shortages and competitive pressure. “There are a lot of up-and-coming robot and automation companies in…
