Robotics

Digitization, connectivity, efficiency and customer demands continue to drive innovation.

The new 30,000 square foot facility will be located in the emerging high tech area of Pittsburgh known as Robotics Row.

Technology continues to be the driving force, but it's evolving.

Of the 8 million robots shipped in 2030, nearly 6 million will be mobile

Report indicates "opportunities abound" for both the manufacturing sector and technology vendors.

Soft Robotics, a robotics pioneer dedicated to solving the hardest workforce challenges, today announced a strategic partnership with FANUC, the world’s largest maker of industrial robots, that will accelerate the adoption of integrated soft robotic solutions into high-growth automation markets worldwide.

Warehouse-specific connectivity issues must be dealt with at a holistic level, assessing the operation in terms of physical layout as well as by kind, size and location of goods, anticipated movement of goods, mobile devices, integration of historical trending data, and other related variables.

Just over half of industry experts believe machine vision market will increase in the next six months, 38% believe sales will remain flat. Seven in 10 expect flat performance in the machine vision market, 24% believing sales will increase in the next six months.

Supply chains can improve customer experience by making it easy to send data up and down the chain, with real-time information delivered via APIs and automated updates.

Suppliers following a traditional model of equipment sales should consider "a subscription platform in their business model to offer maintenance and upgrades, especially cloud-based software updates."

Solution to improve flexibility at all levels, including machines, to support shorter product cycles and smaller lots of greater variety.

Future of logistics to be driven by artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, AR, drones, 5G and robotics.

Robotic Industries Association (RIA) statistics report more than 5% increase

Inflexibility motivated the 3PL to explore a collaborative solution, leading to a ROI in five months.

While autonomous mobile robots can reduce the labor requirement that warehouse operators often struggle to fill, in many cases, AMRs are deployed to work alongside humans—­not in place of them. Find out why a Lockheed Martin warehouse that fills orders for aviation parts deployed mobile robots, and how they’re viewed as helpers by their human co-workers.