Tag: holiday
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Getting your warehouse holiday-ready: How technology can help you ride the tide during the busiest time of the year
By Pieter Feenstra is the CEO of Addverb Technologies’ EMEA region The holiday season is right around the corner and hype is in the air. With customers in their deal-hunting mode getting ready to score the best deals, and businesses offering competitive discounts for limited periods to trigger a sense of urgency, it sure is…
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Baidu launches ‘world’s first’ multi-modal autonomous driving mobility-as-a-service platform
Baidu, a driverless car developer and China’s equivalent of Google, has launched a multi-modal autonomous driving mobility as a service (MaaS) platform that will provide AI-driven city transportation services in Guangzhou, a city a hundred miles north-west of Hong Kong. Utilizing a fleet of Apollo Robotaxis and Robobuses along with three other model types of…
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Locus Robotics picks ‘record-breaking’ 13 million units during 2019 holiday period
Locus Robotics has broken its own record in terms of productivity numbers in November 2019. (See infographic below.) The warehouse robot maker delivered more than 13 million units picked on behalf of global retail and third party logistics partners during the critical holiday season. Locus says this is a 400 per cent increase in units…
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Can robots save the e-commerce holiday season?
It’s getting close to Christmas and that means it’s time for e-commerce fulfillment managers to start getting worried about the availability of labor for the holiday season. According to a recent article in Supply Chain Dive, “this year’s peak season promises additional challenges in recruiting new hires as the pool of available labor shrinks”. As…
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ABB robots ring in the holiday season at Bloomingdale’s iconic New York flagship store
A dozen ABB robots were on hand this week to ring in the holiday season at Bloomingdale’s iconic New York flagship store. (See video below.) Described by ABB as the “next step in human robot collaboration”, the robots were seen trimming trees, and entertaining shoppers with holiday tunes and karaoke. Helping New York celebrate the…
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Augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and smart glasses: ‘VIEW’ technology for the 2019 holiday season
By Seth Patin, founder and CEO, LogistiVIEW Warehouse workers can be faster, safer, and more accurate this holiday season. LogistiVIEW’s “Visual Input Enabled Wearable” (VIEW) technology improves workforce productivity and job satisfaction by making processes hands free and eyes focused. Intuitive voice and visual instructions make work easy and training rapid. These benefits can all…
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Consumer demand, and the demanding consumer, for the holidays
By Thomas R. Cutler Consumer spending trends suggest this holiday season for retailers and logistics companies will drive an improvement of 15 per cent year-over-year. With retail sales in the US expanded 0.8 per cent in October after a strong 1 per cent gain in September, the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Mitchell reported, in the best two-month stretch…