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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Both new offerings are from Motoman (Waukegan IL). The Motoman UP400RD material handling and part transfer robot boasts a maximum payload of 400 kg, and can work in tight spaces and service multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mobile robots are carving out an increasingly important role in material handling, especially in the era of e-commerce and the coronavirus pandemic. In this conversation with SupplyChainBrain ...

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 ...