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Locus Robotics secures a round C investment of $26M

April 11, 2019 Amazon Robotics adds autonomous mobile robot startup Canvas Technology to its portfolio. TechCrunch reported yesterday that autonomous mobile robot supplier Canvas Technology was being acquired by Amazon Robotics. Amazon confirmed the acquisition with TechCrunch. Colorado based Canvas Technology is a warehouse robotics company with an autonomous person-to-goods cart solution. Canvas raised at…

April 8, 2019 – Chicago, IL Locus Robotics announces the launch of its Spring 2019 software and hardware suite. The release features significant new functionality, as well as enhancements to the Company’s multi-bot software, hardware, and user experience (UX). As a whole, the release is designed to further improve productivity, operational flexibility and performance, and…

inVia deploys additional robot fleets at Rakuten Super Logistics warehouses inVia Robotics announced today the expanded deployment of its Picker autonomous mobile robots (AMR) in additional  Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL) warehouses across the United States. The first warehouse of the expansion is already in operation, having gone live in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this year.…

April 8, 2019 – Chicago, IL Introducing the MiR1000 Today, from their booth at the Automate 2019 tradeshow, Mobile Industrial Robotics (MiR) announced the release of a new autonomous mobile robot (AMR): the MiR1000. With a payload capacity of 1000 kg (2,679 lbs or 1 ton), the MiR1000 is the largest capacity, autonomous mobile robot…

April 8, 2019 – Chicago, IL   Waypoint Robotics announces the release of the MAV3K autonomous mobile robot (AMR). The MAV3K can carry a payload up to 3000 lbs (1,119.7 kg) throughout your manufacturing facility or warehouse. The MAV3K features a holonomic (omnidirection) drivetrain with mecanum style wheels. This drivetrain configuration enables MAV3K to be…

April 8, 2019 – Chicago, IL AutoGuide Mobile Robots announces the general availability of their new MAX N10 Pallet Stacker. The MAX N10 Pallet Stacker is an attachment to the patent pending modular MAX N10 AMR. The MAX N10 Pallet Stacker is an automated counterbalanced lift truck that can automatically pick and place pallets or…

April 7, 2019, Chicago, IL ROEQ launches the TR500 Top Roller at the Automate 2019 tradeshow this week. The TR500 is a conveyor solution designed for the Mobile Industrial Robotics (MiR) MiR500 autonomous mobile robot (AMR). The TR500 is an active payload and it enables a MiR500 robot to automatically onboard/offboard cargo in the form…

April 7, 2019 – Chicago, IL 6 River Systems announces the general availability of Mobile Sort, a new solution that enables warehouse operators to intelligently generate and fulfill batched orders together with 6 River Systems’ autonomous mobile robots (AMR). Mobile Sort provides an order queuing station that can be positioned anywhere in the warehouse to…

SnapFulfil Announces Autonomous Fulfillment Cart, SnapCart New offering represents SnapFulfil’s commitment to practical innovation ​DENVER (April 4, 2019) – SnapFulfil, a Tier-1, cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) provider, today announced the creation of its new, innovative fulfillment cart, SnapCart.   SnapCart is an extension of SnapFulfil’s cloud-based WMS and is designed to help small parts picking…

ProMat / Automate Mobile Robot Show Guide Are you going to ProMat / Automate next week? We’ve done all of the homework for you and built the definitive list of mobile robot vendors to visit while you’re at the show AND we’ll be live blogging from the show all week with the latest news. NOTE:…