These AGVs will be used to alleviate congestion in the industry, according to ABI Research’s Multimodal Logistics market data report.
These UGVs can combat mosquitoes in Taiwan sewers
Researchers combined a crawling robot, wire-controlled cable car, and real-time monitoring system into a UGV.
GAM soft-launches GML Series Wheel Drive
The GML Series Wheel Drive can be used as a direct drive or differential drive and can be combined with a steering drive to form a drive-steer unit.
New ASTM standard F3588-22 defines objects encountered by AMRs and AGVs
ASTM’s new standard outlines common objects encountered by AMRs and AGVs. The new standard gives operators and manufacturers a common way to describe these items.
MOV.AI brings in $8.2M for its AMR platform
MOV.AI, which offers a robotics platform to develop AMRs and AGVs, brought in $8.2 million in funding.
AGVs for automating heavy load manufacturing conveyance
For today’s heavy manufacturers, conveyance automation systems must be extremely robust and capable of transporting high-capacity payloads, yet also deliver the high levels of flexibility, safety and scalability expected from today’s mobile robotic systems. Modern automated guided vehicles can do just that.
Civ Robotics brings in $5M for autonomous surveyors
Civ Robotics announced that it closed a $5 million seed round for its autonomous surveying solution CivDot.
5 trends dominating the robotics sector
What is the state of the robotics and automation sector at 2022’s midpoint? ABI Research’s Lian Jye Su has a few thoughts, five in fact.
Watch Ghost Robotics’ quadruped go swimming
Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 quadruped robot can now be equipped with Onyx Industries’ Nautical Autonomous Unmanned Tail to make it amphibious.
SICK showcases AMR localization at Automate 2022
SICK highlights solutions safe productivity, part localization in bin picking, and LiDAR localization
Willy Pell from Blue River Technology brings AI to the farm
Listen to how Blue River Technology brought autonomy to John Deere tractors and are using machine learning to continually improve the operations.
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.
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.
100,000+ mobile robots shipped in 2021
The biggest market for mobile robots is China, which made up 40% of worldwide shipments in 2021, followed by the U.S.
SEER announces Series B financing to scale AMRs
The company develops autonomous mobile robot (AMR) controllers, AMRs and automated guided vehicles.
Autonomous navigation specialist BlueBotics acquired by Zapi Group
The acquisition strengthens Zapi Group’s position in the fast-growing mobile robotics sector.
Robotics integrator Eckhart acquired by private equity firm
Eckhart offers engineering, design, simulation and integration services, as well as proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems such as AGVs and cobots.
Precise motion systems drive autonomous mobile robots
Selecting the correct motor is critical to overall performance for autonomous mobile robots.
AWS wants to fix robotics’ interoperability problem
AWS claims IoT RoboRunner eliminates the need for numerous integrations among different robot control systems and warehouse management systems.
Jungheinrich AG acquires AMR provider arculus
arculus brings AMR expertise while extending the Jungheinrich portfolio with a deep AMR-based product line.
Mobile robots rapidly mainstreaming – by 2025, AGVs and AMRs could be deployed in 53k facilities
Business, technological, and social drivers, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, have accelerated deployments of mobile robots in the warehousing and other sectors.
BlueBotics signs distribution deal to grow Thai mobile robot market
BlueBotics claims its navigation technology is accurate to ±1 cm / ±1° and that it requires minimal changes to infrastructure.