Day: April 5, 2018
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Exclusive interview: Sarcos Robotics aims to augment human strengths
Exclusive interview with Ben Wolff, CEO of Sarcos Robotics Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver is most famous for two things: one is making vests popular and the other is having an epic dust-up with a massive alien on the deck of a spaceship, toe to toe, mano-a-mano, or womano-a-womano, or womano-a-alieno, or whatever. In space, no…
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Honeywell launches new software for connected distribution centers
Honeywell has launched a new software platform for distribution centers that the company says streamlines and simplifies complex e-commerce fulfillment operations. The Momentum warehouse execution system from Honeywell Intelligrated brings together automated equipment, workflows, orders and labor in a unified platform to provide distribution center operators real-time visibility and help make operations more efficient. The…
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The route to fulfilment: Exclusive interview with DHL robotics boss
Exclusive interview with Denis Niezgoda, robotics accelerator lead at DHL In this exclusive interview, Robotics and Automation News talks to Denis Niezgoda, robotics accelerator lead at DHL, who gets into details of the company’s automation strategy, highlights some challenges, and provides plenty of insight into numerous interesting initiatives DHL is currently engaged in. DHL, as many…
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Fetch Robotics expands autonomous mobile robot fleet
Fetch Robotics, one of the first and leading makers of warehouse robots, has expanded its VirtualConveyor family of Autonomous Mobile Robots with the addition of CartConnect and RollerTop robots. The company says it now has “the most flexible and broad range of workflows for material handling and transport”. Through the FetchCore Cloud Robotics Platform, mixed…
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Manufacturers ‘slow’ to introduce digital supply chains, says new report
Manufacturing companies are slow to integrate digital supply chains into their networks, according to a new report by Deloitte and the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation. Deloitte, one of the largest management consultancies in the world, says the lag is occurring despite the “significant advantages” digital supply networks, or DSNs, can provide. The study, Embracing…
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Robotic arms being employed as camera operators
If you’re an enthusiast who occasionally makes a YouTube video, you probably use the webcam integrated with your computer. But if you’re more serious, you probably buy yourself good-quality video and audio equipment and your productions are of a higher standard. Take one step further on from that and what’s possible is that you avail yourself…
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Robot density rises globally, South Korea ahead
The automation of production is accelerating around the world: 74 robot units per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries (2015: 66 units). By regions, the average robot density in Europe is 99 units, in the Americas 84 and in Asia 63 units. The top 10 most automated…
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Teradata and Cisco work on smart cities solution
Teradata is working with Cisco on a digital transformation solution with a focus on smart cities and communities. Combining the merits of Cisco’s IoT platform, Cisco Kinetic for Cities, with the Teradata Analytics Platform, the solution will help cities become smarter and more connected by providing a powerful solution for integrated data exchange. The Cisco…
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DHL expands e-commerce fulfilment internationally
DHL Parcel and DHL eCommerce are now offering online retailers a global solution for their e-commerce fulfilment needs with a global fulfilment platform and new fulfilment centers in the UK, Americas and South-east Asia. Today’s e-commerce market is placing aggressive demands on the retailer to provide fast fulfilment and delivery, and doing so without increasing…
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Amazon plans fulfilment centre in Missouri, US
Amazon.com, Inc. is planning its first Missouri fulfilment centre in St. Peters, creating more than 1,500 full-time jobs and opportunities to engage with Amazon Robotics in a highly technological workplace. Amazon currently operates a sortation centre in Hazelwood, where it employs hundreds of associates. Amazon employees at the more than 800,000 square foot fulfilment centre…