However, sensors are only as good as their maintenance. Inventory storage areas can be dusty, materials can spill, and ...

Understanding Automated Material Handling Systems So, what exactly are we talking about when we say ‘automated material ...

The rapid growth of e-commerce and its need for an always-on supply chain means that manufacturers are having to rethink the way they move materials to and from stock and around the factory floor.

In autonomous robotics, the area of materials handling is often overshadowed by the pizzazz of self-driving cars. But a rapid shift toward automation in e-commerce distribution centers and ...

Comau has extended its family of small robots for quick applications in restricted spaces, including handling, assembly, and pick-and-place, by introducing two new robots: Racer5-0.63 and Racer5-0.80.

Oceaneering Mobile Robotics (OMR), a Houston, Texas-based provider of engineered products and services that focuses on applying mobile robotics to material handling applications, has deployed more ...

No longer content to release videos of humanoid robots doing backflips, Boston Dynamics this week unveiled something logistically incredible: a prototype of its new box-moving machine. Retailer A.S.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vecna Robotics, the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and workflow orchestration company, today announced a partnership with Alta Material Handling (Alta MH). The ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Several robotics companies have grown their autonomous mobile robot fleet in 2019 and are poised to scale exponentially over the next five years. Retail is an industry tied to ...

Because TexTrack’s system separates the “movement platform” from the “payload module”, the same unit can serve picking one ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

The latest generation of robots offers performance advances, growing integration of vision and an enlarging capability to transform manufacturing. The time: 1961. General Motors' implementation of ...