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Waypoint Robotics & AHS Announce Integrator Partnership

  • July 28, 2020
  • News

Waypoint Robotics and AHS announce a new systems integrator partnership. AHS will offer Waypoint’s full fleet of industrial-strength, omnidirectional AMRs to its valued customer base as part of a fully integrated automated material handling solution.

Autonomous Forklifts During the Pandemic

  • by Thomas R. Cutler
  • July 9, 2020
  • Opinion

Though predicted years ago, COVID-19 has made autonomous forklifts an immediate reality for small footprint manufacturing facilities.

AutoGuide Mobile Robots announces opening of Massachusetts test facility

  • June 22, 2020
  • News

Companies considering AMRs for their manufacturing, warehouse or other e-commerce-related distribution applications can virtually visit the test facility now—with the facility opening for onsite visits following Massachusetts’ phased re-opening guidelines—to see how the AMRs would work in their own facilities.  

ESMERA project announces 20 new experiments underway

  • May 14, 2020
  • News

Out of these 69 applications, the most promising 20 experiments have now been selected. In Phase I of ESMERA, proving their concept, they get funding of up to 75.000 Euros each as well as technical support and business mentoring by the ESMERA consortium.

Deep BV Selects Sea Machines Autonomy for Unmanned Hydrographic Survey Operations

  • May 6, 2020
  • News

The initial mission will measure challenging portions of the Dutch Wadden Sea.

Guiding the Industry: AGVs and the Smart Factory

  • by Jonathan Wilkins
  • March 11, 2020
  • Feature

This article discusses how automated guided vehicles have advanced from simple materials handlers to intelligent autonomous robots.
 

IDTechEx Report: Autonomous cars could accout for 4 trillion miles of road travel by 2040

  • November 26, 2019
  • News

IDTechEx has recently seen competitors joining hands and forming some unlikely-sounding alliances to reduce the cost of autonomous driving development, as well as to share resources and capabilities. In July 2019, BMW Group signed a long-term strategic cooperation with rival company Daimler AG that begins with bringing Level 4 capability to market in the mid-2020s.

Sea Machines Robotics demonstrates autonomous systems to assist marine oil-spill response

  • August 26, 2019
  • News

The on-water demonstrations took place aboard the world’s first autonomous spill response vessel – a Vigor/Kvichak Marine Industries-built skimmer boat, owned by Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) – before a live audience of MARAD, government, naval, international, environmental and industry representatives.

Autonomous Delivery is Not All it’s Cracked Up to Be… Yet

  • June 27, 2018
  • Feature

By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation The logistics and supply chain sector has been inundated with new and novel transport technologies in the past two years, however, experts don’t expect many of these technologies to be widely available for another 5-10. This article explains why parts suppliers may be better served by focusing on reducing lead-times to same-day delivery.

inVia helps Rakuten Super Logistics deploy autonomous warehouse robotics technology

  • May 9, 2018
  • Case Study

Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL) has deployed inVia’s autonomous warehouse robotics technology within its Nevada operations. Rakuten Super Logistics (RSL) is a national e-commerce order fulfillment company that has been working on order fulfillment technology since 2001.