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Locus Robotics launches business intelligence tool LocusHub

13 March 2024

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) provider Locus Robotics on Wednesday launched its business intelligence tool LocusHub, enabling customers to leverage reporting tools and data insights to make recommendations to fleets of AMRs.

The new solution will be available through its LocusOne platform, launched last year at the industry tradeshow ProMat.

LocusBot Origin. (Photo: Locus Robotics)

LocusOne coordinates the company’s AMRs, known as LocusBots, which consist of two lines of robots: Locus Origin...

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ProMat roundup: The biggest announcements from Day 1 & 2

22 March 2023

CHICAGO — ProMat 2023 is well underway, and the announcements have been coming fas and furious.

The massive trade show, running this week for the first time since 2019, features 1,000 of the top supply chain and logistics companies pitching their latest and greatest solutions to tens of thousands of guests.

As you can imagine, the 500,000-square-foot show floor is jam-packed with firms across industries like robotics, automation, manufacturing, assembly, delivery, fulfillment and information...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/promat-roundup-the-biggest-announcements-from-day-1-2

Robotics firm Mujin unveils automated unloader at ProMat

21 March 2023

Automation solutions provider Mujin has unveiled its latest technology, TruckBot, an automated trailer and container unloader.

Reaching up to 52 feet while handling boxes weighing up to 50 pounds, TruckBot fastens onto extendable conveyors, frequently seen in modern warehouses and docks, and uses suction cup grippers to grab the sides of boxes and place them on the conveyor belt to be transferred to its QuickBot Depalletizer robotics arm for sorting. TruckBot made its debut on Monday at...

High-touch ProMat trade show goes virtual

11 December 2020

The Big Kahuna of supply chain conferences is going virtual.

ProMat, a biennial event that showcases almost everything that’s new in the ever-expanding universe of material handling, will hold its 2021 event virtually for the first time in its 35-year history, MHI, the trade association that sponsors ProMat, said earlier this week.

The virtual show, called ProMatDx, will be held April 12-16, MHI said. The group had hoped to hold a hybrid ProMat with some events face to face and others conducted...

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