Logistics / Warehouse / Transportation

Warehouse operators should move to AI-based warehouse management solutions to help keep up with demand.

The MiR250 Hook can autonomously connect to, and move any hand cart on your floor.

Geek+ deploys 100 AMRs at a Circle K distribution center to better serve customers all over Hong Kong.

Stratom is developing an autonomous pallet loader for the USMC, to help automate cargo loading of military aircraft.

Gideon Brothers has raised $31 million in Series A investment to expand its product line of material handling AMRs.

Seegrid Corporation announces the availability of the Seegrid Palion Tow Tractor Series 8 with enhanced Smart Path technology.

DHL Supply Chain is expanding its collaboration with Locus Robotics. By 2022, DHL plans to implement up to 2,000 assisted picking robots globally.

Exotec Skypod ASRS solution was selected by Decathlon Canada, to help ease the upcoming holiday fulfillment season.

Seegrid launches a new R&D group called Blue Labs to focus on investment in innovation.

Geek+ announces the successful deployment of Geek+ AMRs in Siemens Switchgear Shanghai’s factory.

Consumer products giant, Unilever, has partnered with Turkey-based Milvus Robotics to help automate the movement of product and material through their Home and Personal Care factory in Turkey. Unilever deployed a fleet of fifteen SEIT500 and two SEIT100 AMRs at the factory. Serving over 2.5 billion consumers worldwide with personal care and wellness items, food and beverages, and various…

Fabric micro-fulfillment solutions enabled Israeli-based Super-Pharm to keep up with increased demand during the pandemic.

SESTO Robotics expands into Europe, partnering with the Germany-based automation specialist Baumüller

JASCI Software acquires AMR provider NextShift Robotics and forms a new warehouse automation company: JASCI Robotics.

For many companies considering AMRs, questions remain … are they productive as advertised, are they cost effective, can they be integrated with other automation technology, can they be scaled?

SEAT deploys several EffiBOT AMRs to help with material handling task throughout the factory.

FlexQube adds Air Specialists to their growing list of dealers in North America.

UPS Europe successfully deploys a cube-based ASRS solution by Autostore in this use case story.

Five MiR1000 AMRs transport 200 tons of material per day at Florisa’s Brazilian plant, an increase of 122% from the previous manual transportation process.

6 River Systems shows off their creativity with an engaging, interactive demo of their warehouse logistics solution.

Tompkins Robotics and GreyOrange announce a strategic partnership to integrate their solutions for a “zero walk” warehouse sortation solution.

In this video, you can see a demonstration with a prototype of the mobile robot SOTO 2 from Magazino interacting with a Karakuri shelf. The SOTO 2 is picking, transporting and putting down small load carriers from MIELE.

In this video, you see a demonstration of how easy it is to integrate a ROS-based robot like Boston Dynamics SPOT in the OTTO fleet manager.

Fetch Robotics provides innovative, on-demand automation solutions for material handling and inventory management by combining mobile robotics with the power of the cloud to safely find, track, and move almost anything in any facility. In this video, Fetch outlines the workflows of AMRs that support payloads from 100kg to 1500kg.

This week, in part two of our series on mobile robot safety, host Mike Oitzman interviews Melanee Wise, CEO of Fetch Robotics. Melanee was one of the contributors to the recently released RIA R15.08 autonomous mobile robot safety standard.