Robotics

DHL extends warehouse automation partnership with Locus Robotics

DHL Supply Chain, a leader in contract logistics within Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced on Wednesday a framework agreement with Locus Robotics to continue expanding its automation collaboration that began in 2017 as an important piece to DHL’s Accelerated Digitalization Strategy.

Within this extended agreement, DHL plans to add 2,000 robots by 2022, making it Locus Robotics’ largest customer. DHL already has more than 500 assisted picking robots in use today and plans to add 500 more to more...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dhl-extends-warehouse-automation-partnership-with-locus-robotics

E-Commerce Revolution Powered by Robots from Israel

  • Three companies are making strides in the automated fulfillment landscape, providing a glimpse into the future of retail.
  • One of the first things that strike you when you enter eGold’s fulfillment center in the port city of Ashdod, is how quiet things are.
  • The 20,000 square meter facility, that handles thousands of items a day, taking them from the container ship they arrived on and prepping them for delivery to customers’ homes is eerily silent.
  • The company’s state-of-the-art facility is one...

https://mfame.guru/e-commerce-revolution-powered-by-robots-from-israel/

Gap puts Exotec’s robotics system to the test in returns management

E-commerce growth is driving more companies to automate their warehouses. The speed and cost savings that can be gained through robotics and automation can help offset the demands of e-commerce picking, which is both time-consuming and expensive.

Warehouse automation saw 50% growth in venture capital investment in 2020, and the global warehouse robotics sector is expected to reach $6.8 billion by 2025. Despite the increasing pressure for speed and accuracy that e-commerce has generated, 80% of...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gap-puts-exotecs-robotics-system-to-the-test-in-returns-management

Humans, robots and warehouses: Maximizing productivity, lowering costs

According to Rick Faulk, CEO of warehouse robotics firm Locus Robotics, there is about 20 billion square feet of warehouse space around the world. An additional 3 billion square feet will be built in the next few years. And yet, 95% of that space is completely unautomated.

Warehouse automation has rapidly accelerated in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has quickened that pace, but there is a lot of room to grow, and plenty of automation solutions still to be developed.

“It all has to be...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/humans-robots-and-warehouses-maximizing-productivity-lowering-costs

Are skyscraper warehouses the key to urban grocery fulfillment?

This is an excerpt from Monday’s (4/5) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest.

Building automated grocery fulfillment systems powered by busy swarms of robots has gone sci-fi to science over the past decade, but it remains prohibitively expensive. In addition to the costs of advanced robotics and accompanying software, real estate costs can balloon into the millions of dollars in urban neighborhoods that have the population density and income levels to support such a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/are-skyscraper-warehouses-the-key-to-urban-grocery-fulfillment

Gnarlywood chooses inVia Robotics for fulfilment operations

One of the biggest names in Hollywood merchandise sales has chosen an e-commerce fulfilment system from inVia Robotics.

Gnarlywood Group, which provides backend merchandise fulfillment operations for some of the nation’s largest entertainment brands, will deploy inVia’s Logic artificial intelligence-powered warehouse execution system (WES) at its Carlsbad, California, warehouse. Gnarlywood will eventually add inVia’s Picker autonomous mobile robots as part of efforts to modernize and automate...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gnarlywood-chooses-invia-robotics-for-fulfilment-operations

Logistics firm Cargo Cove jumps on automation trend, adds inVia Robotics solutions

Cargo Cove adding inVia Robotics autonomous robots to e-commerce facility

E-commerce growth has pushed the boundaries of what logistics companies can handle in their warehouses without further innovation. That innovation is coming in the form of automation and robotics. Warehouse automation saw a 50% growth in venture capital investment in 2020 and the global warehouse robotics section is expected to reach $6.8 billion by 2025. Despite the increasing speed and accuracy pressures being applied by e-commerce, 80% of warehouses are still manually operated with no...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/logistics-firm-cargo-cove-jumps-on-automation-trend-adds-invia-robotics-solutions

FORT raises $13M to enhance safety of robotic systems

FORT Robotics, a safety and security platform for smart machines, announced on Thursday it has closed a $13 million Series A funding round led by Prime Movers Lab. Other investors included Prologis Ventures, Ahoy Capital, FundersClub, Compound, Lemnos VC, Quiet Capital, Creative Ventures and NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

All industries are finding ways to include automation and robotic systems into their workflows to increase productivity. Without proper safety measures around these...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fort-raises-13m-to-enhance-safety-of-robotic-systems

REV-1 robot takes on snow for last-mile delivery

Refraction AI entered into the $80 billion robotics market in 2019 with a mission to bring a practical, economical and deployable robot to the last-mile delivery space. 

While working at the University of Michigan’s Robotics Program, co-founders Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Ram Vasudevan noticed a gap in autonomous vehicle (AV) mobility: extreme weather conditions. The pair developed their “Goldilocks of autonomous vehicles,” REV-1, a last-mile delivery robot that could handle the harsh weather...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rev-1-robot-takes-on-snow-for-last-mile-delivery

Nimble Robotics raises $50M for fulfillment automation

Nimble Robotics, an e-commerce warehouse automation company, announced a $50 million Series A financing round led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures with participation from Accel and Reinvent Capital. Nimble plans to use the funds to deploy more robots to its customers and expedite hiring for further product and technology development. 

Nimble also announced the appointment of two new board members: Fei-Fei Li, a Sequoia professor of computer science at Stanford University, and Sebastian Thrun,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/nimble-robotics-raises-$50m-for-fulfillment-automation

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