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6 Ways Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Impacting Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Artificial Intelligence is already enhancing our lives as consumers, now it is picking up momentum in supply chain management and logistics, and managers should pay close attention as more AI-enhanced...

XPO Logistics to Deploy 5,000 Collaborative Warehouse Robots in North America and Europe
XPO Logistics will buy 5,000 warehouse robots from a Singapore startup backed by billionaire Peter Thiel as part of a deal that makes XPO the only logistics provider to use the...

7 Reasons for Using Autonomous Robots in Your Warehouse
Here are the main reasons why your company needs to start integrating autonomous robots into its supply chain in 2018.

Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.
Can we talk about robots?

Universal Robots marks milestone with 25,000th collaborative robot
Gold edition robot presented to customer Kay Manufacturing at IMTS in Chicago.

Driverless Trucks Could Potentially Replace Many of the Nation’s Best Long-Distance Trucking Jobs
A new study by Dr. Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and trucking expert at the University of Pennsylvania, concludes that eroding job quality should be as serious a concern as job...

Four Truths About DC Robots, Jobs, And Warehouse Execution
Many articles about robots in the distribution center include predictions of large scale job losses. “Robots Replace People” is a good, attention-grabbing headline, but the truth is more complicated.

Collaborative robot works overnight for manufacturer
CNC machine shop and manufacturer employs cobot to automate repetitive jobs.

inVia Robotics raises $20 million Series B funding for warehouse automation robots
The funds will be used to boost the commercial deployment of inVia's Picker robots and cloud-based Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) management system.

How Do Autonomous Robots Drive Supply Chain Innovation?
This article identifies seven qualities that set autonomous drones and robots apart from their human-controlled counterparts.

IoT, the talent shortage and robotics
In its 4th annual survey of manufacturers and distributors, Sikich finds that companies are facing many challenges; answers are elusive.

General Motors Expands 3D Printing
During a press tour of GM's Lansing Delta Township assembly plant, the company's director of global manufacturing integration, Dan Grieshaber, said that the company has 3D printers in most of...

QDS Systems announces leasing and rental program for collaborative robots
Baton Rouge-based engineering firm and systems integrator's new financing model responds to growing customer demand and changing workforce

How robotics can fit your operation
There is a lot to like about robotics as a means of automating DCs. The tricky questions around robotics are not will they catch on, because they are, but what...

GreyOrange to Showcase its End-to-End Robotics Logistics Solutions at CeMAT Australia
GreyOrange will showcase the Butler range of robotics solutions at CeMAT Australia 2018, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Omron and Taiwanese collaborative robot company Techman Robot form strategic alliance
Collaborative robots integrated with Omron's other factory automation products will 'realize a manufacturing environment where humans and machines work in harmony.'

Three end-of-arm robotic companies become OnRobot
Perception Robotics (US), OptoForce (Hungary) and On Robot (Denmark) merge to create fully integrated products with combined user interfaces.

North American machine vision market sets new records
Market grows 19% in first quarter of 2018.

ABI Research outlines eight technologies that will transform manufacturing
Research identifies vendor challenges and solutions for 'new-future' technologies including robotics, blockchain, AI and edge analytics.

XPO and Nestlé herald partnership for U.K.-based digital warehouse of the future
The 638,000 square-foot DC, which XPO described as “a warehouse of the future," is located at the new SEGRO East Midlands Gateway Logistics Park in Leicestershire and will mainly be occupied...



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