The ABB Depalletizer Solution uses vision guidance to easily identify boxes to pick from a pallet, regardless of size and orientation.
ABB’s Mark Joppru joins MiR as VP of sales for the Americas
Mark Joppru, the former vice president of ABB USA’s Consumer Segments and Service Robotics division, has joined the MiR team.
Kiva Systems creators inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Kiva Systems’ creators Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman are being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
VisionNav Robotics closes $80M for AGVs
VisionNav’s AGVs include forklifts, indoor and outdoor autonomous tractors and BrightEye, its smart AGV system.
Pittsburgh welcomes Plus One Robotics
The logistics robotics company is the latest to join Pittsburgh’s technology ecosystem
Agility Robotics’ Digit brings in $150M
DCVC and Playground Global led the funding round, which also included participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF).
MHS Global and Fortna combine
The details of the deal were not disclosed, and the transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Rapyuta Robotics brings in $51M for pick assist robots
Rapyuta offers a picking assistant AMR that picks and carries orders between worders to reduce the amount of time workers spend walking.
How Amazon trained its robot Robin to sort packages
Robin picks packages from a conveyor belt, scans them and then places them on a drive robot that routes it to the correct loading dock.
Plus One Robotics appoints Robert Nilsson as chief revenue officer
Nilsson joins at a high-growth time for the company which recently opened offices in Pittsburgh and The Netherlands.
MODEX Recap; family-owned business turns to cobots for help
MODEX recap and a discussion with automation end-user Brian Tu from DCL Logistics about the effective deployment of cobots.
Robotics Summit keynote: how AMRs can optimize warehouse productivity
Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics, will discuss at the Robotics Summit & Expo how autonomous mobile robots can optimize warehouse productivity.
Plus One, Tompkins partner on autonomous picking robot
Plus One and Tompkins’ technologies will create an accurate picking robot that can quickly classify new package shapes and types.
OPEX introduces Infinity ASRS at MODEX
Infinity joins OPEX’s two other robotic systems, Sure Sort, a sorting system, and Perfect Pick, a goods-to-person picking robot.
Hy-Tek Holdings continues to expand via acquisition
Hy-Tek Holdings acquired FASCOR and LCS to expand its offerings in material handling and integrated systems.
Warehouse automation: mapping your maturity and next steps
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Boston Dynamics’ Stretch now commercially available
Stretch is a mobile robot that unloads floor-loaded trailers and containers. It can handle up to 50 lbs at a time.
Vecna Robotics debuts autonomous pallet jack at MODEX
Vecna Robotics jointly announced at MODEX 2022 with Big Joe Forklifts its latest autonomous offering for labor-intensive material-handling workflows called the Vecna Co-Bot Pallet Jack.
Waypoint’s robots officially join Locus with rebrand
Two of Waypoint Robotics’ heavy payload AMRs are being rebranded to join a new line of Locus Robotics’ LocusBots.
New OTTO Lifter autonomously transports pallets
The new OTTO Lifter can autonomously pickup and dropoff payloads up to 1200 kg and automate material handling in your warehouse.
Black-i Robotics launches mobile heavy lift robot arm
Brian Hart, CEO of Black-i Robotics, discusses the development of a new autonomous heavy lift robot arm designed to be deployed on top of a mobile robot.
Element Logic acquires SDI Industries
Element Logic plans to leverage SDI’s eight U.S. locations and five Latin American locations and make SDI an AutoStore integrator.