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News, trends, products and productivity solutions that showcase the latest in automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated mobile robots for warehouses and distributions centers.


System Report: Bulking up at Canadian Tire
One of Canada’s largest retail brands took bulk handling to new levels of automation and efficiency at its new Ontario DC.

Inside Canadian Tire Distribution Center: Design for flexibility
Canadian Tire’s bulk handling facility brings together automation and conventional materials handling for a variety of products. Take an in depth look inside one of the largest tire distribution centers in the world.

Vecna Robotics now a standalone company, separates from Vecna Technologies
With new business, leadership and investor, the provider of self-driving industrial vehicles plans enhanced production and innovation to meet growing demand.

Fetch Robotics names former Walmart executive as new VP of engineering
Cloud expert also worked on scalable cloud-based platforms for eBay, PayPal.

Honeywell partners with Fetch Robotics to deliver autonomous mobile robots to DCs
Expands smart robotics portfolio to help warehousing operations fulfill growing e-commerce orders more efficiently

DB Schenker collaborates with IAM Robotics to develop ‘The Warehouse of the Future’
Among other automation and robotics projects, the organizations will collaborate on the deployment of mobile manipulation solutions with robots that can both pick up and transport goods.

AGVs enhance automotive powertrain production
The automatic guided vehicles ensure accuracy, repeatability and security

GE improves material flow with self-driving vehicles
GE improves material flow with automatic guided vehicles in the GE Healthcare 280,000-square-foot facility

Pack Expo: AGVS Industry Group of MHI to highlight automatic guided vehicle technology
Representatives from AGVS member companies are there to promote AGVS technology to the packaging industry.

AGVs: Meet your autonomous mobile coworkers
Capable of learning, adapting and decision-making, autonomous industrial vehicles of all kinds could become fundamental fixtures of warehousing and distribution operations.

Scott Group acquires Transbotics
Scott Group strengthens U.S. presence with acquisition of AGV manufacturer founded in 1982.

Get 30% More Productivity by Shifting Your Focus from Runtime to Uptime
The drive for higher levels of productivity has caused some AGV manufacturers to select larger batteries that can last longer between recharge periods. AGV White Paper, Automatic Guided Vehicle White Paper, Automated Vehicle White Paper, Autonomous Warehouse Robots.

Get 30% More Productivity by Shifting Your Focus from Runtime to Uptime
The drive for higher levels of productivity has caused some AGV manufacturers to select larger batteries that can last longer between recharge periods. AGV White Paper, Automatic Guided Vehicle White Paper, Automated Vehicle White Paper, Autonomous Warehouse Robots.

Seegrid announces 1 million accident-free miles for its self-driving vehicles
Having now traveled the equivalent of 40 times around the earth, Seegrid’s vision-guided vehicles (VGVs) have logged more infrastructure-free miles at customer sites than any other infrastructure-free AGV company. Seegrid Modex announcement, Seegrid Automatic Guided Vehicles safety

Ugly AGVs from SI Systems are a pretty flexible solution
If your operation has a difficult or unusual automatic guided vehicle (AGV) application that might be called, well, “ugly,” then SI Systems (Booth B4857) can develop a pretty nifty solution, said Jim English, senior conveyance applications engineer.

Transbotics showcases natural navigation automated lift truck
Transbotics Corp. (Booth B5047) displayed an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) lift truck that uses natural navigation technology, rather than needing special reflectors or markers.

Waypoint launches wireless charging for mobile robots
Waypoint (Booth C2549) launched EnZone, a wireless power system for autonomous mobile robots, at a Monday press conference.

5 food and beverage technology trends
As product storage, sorting and replenishment methods continue to evolve, food and beverage warehouses are embracing five technology trends.

AGVs: Predictably Flexible
Forget what you thought you knew about AGVs. Mobile robot start-ups and half-century industry veterans alike are delivering a new generation of autonomous coworkers.

Vecna Robotics names CEO Daniel Patt, former head of DARPA Autonomy
New CEO believes material handling and logistics particularly susceptible to approaching "automation revolution."


May 2024 Modern Materials Handling

A complete modernization of the sortation and conveyance at Boscov’s DC, along with updated software and a new order processing area, have transformed the ability of the department store chain’s DC to move more cartons in less time, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.

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