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The Piaggio Group’s Fast Forward innovation lab has launched a self-follow rolling flat-bed robot at the Modex trade show in Atlanta. The company says that the Kilo platform is aimed at helping businesses to “augment their workforce and enhance worker … Continue reading Piaggio’s auto-following Kilo bot carts 220 lb like a robo pack mule
Amazon has been using robots to manage and automate their warehouses for years. Here’s a short feature on their current robot, Hercules. This is absolutely Amazon tooting their own horn, …read more Continue reading How Warehouse Robots Actually Work, As Explained by Amazon
Boston Dynamics has always built robots with agility few others could match. While great for attention-getting demos, from outside the company it hasn’t been clear how they’ll translate acrobatic skills …read more Continue reading Boston Dynamics Stretch Robot Trades Lab Coat For Work Uniform
Due to the current pandemic, people are shopping online like never before. This means that distribution warehouses have become very busy places, where goods need to be transported quickly but safely – and that’s where the LoadRunner comes in.Continue R… Continue reading “LoadRunners” designed to autonomously speed goods through warehouses
Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Other participants in this round include Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $4.3 million seed round […] Continue reading Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work
In recent years, both MIT and Fraunhofer have announced the development of systems that use flying drones to keep track of inventory in warehouses. The Ware system offers a unique take on that same concept, and is already in use at multiple locations.C… Continue reading Ware tech uses autonomous drones to track warehouse inventory
When multiple tipsters write in to tell us about a story, we can tell it’s an important one. This morning we’ve received word that the holding warehouse of the Australian Computer Museum Society in the Sydney suburb of Villawood is to be imminently demolished, and they urgently need to save the artifacts contained within it. They need Aussies with spare storage capacity of decent size to help them keep and store the collection, and they only have a few days during which to do so.
The ever-effusive Dave from EEVblog has posted a video in which he takes a tour, …read more
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Got too much Internet traffic? Get servers on-demand from Amazon Web Services. Got too many pallets of physical goods? Well now you can get on-demand warehousing from Flowspace. The startup aims to become the next critical logistics service by ma… Continue reading Flowspace is AWS for warehouses
With every advance in robotics, we get closer to being able to order stuff from Amazon and have no human being participate in its delivery. Key step in this dream: warehouse robots, smart forklifts able to control and inventory and entire warehouse full of pallets, without the meat community getting involved. [Thomas Risager] designed just such a system as part of his Masters Thesis in Software Engineering. It consists of five LEGO Mindstorms robots working in concert (video embedded below), linked via WiFi to a central laptop. Mindstorms’ native OS doesn’t support WiFi (!!!) so he reflashed the EV3’s ARM9 …read more
Continue reading Mindstorms Forkliftbots Gonna Take Your Job