Loblaw Taps Takeoff to Enhance PC Express Ecommerce Service
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has revealed plans to beef up its PC Express click-and-collect service by installing an automated picking facility within one of the grocer’s locations in the greater Toronto area. Construction is currently underway at a Real Canadian Superstore, which will feature 12,000-square-foot picking facility.
Varner, one of northern Europe’s largest fashion groups, has chosen AutoStore
The expansion means that the existing AutoStore facility – an automated robotic solution for bins – is growing from today’s 60,000 bins to 116,000 bins and will be equipped with a total of 224 robots.
As part of the collaboration with AutoStore, a new design of workstations for pick and pack, storage, returns and hanging garment handling has been developed.
If You Want a Robot to Learn Better, Be a Jerk to It
When humans give robots “tough love” by trying to knock objects out of their hands, it actually helps them find the best ways to hold things.
In what will go down as one of the greatest robotics experiments ever, a few years back researchers in Japan let a robot loose in a mall and watched how kids reacted. Far from the sense of wonder you might expect from children, the mood soured into a sense of concern for the next generation, as the kids proceeded to kick and punch the robot and call it names
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Robots for picking, packing, and palletizing. PLC motion software allows programming via ladder logic.
Walmart’s experiment with robotics
The response from store employees has been even more surprising: they recognize that the robots are there to help, have given them names, which they then display on a badge with that name, and are happy to explain their role to customers, even after the trial period during which they were accompanied by staff. Walmart staff are thankful to the robots for relieving them of the task of shelf checking, and consider them a tool at their service, a technology that helps them or works for them. In other words, they don’t see themselves under threat of being replaced.
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Google X roboticists and engineers aim to provide solution to make sense of robot data in industries such as retail, construction, automotive and healthcare.
A stealth company is trying to solve one of the oddest interoperability problems of the modern era: How do you get robots and non-engineers talking to each other? Founded by the former Director of Robotics for Google, the company, Formant, is making its first public bow thanks to a recently-announced $6 million in funding from SignalFire.
Amazon robots to deliver packages to your door
These last-mile delivery robots, which are essentially hampers on wheels, can navigate autonomously to their destination to drop off packages which are stowed securely inside. Amazon has begun a trial featuring six of these robots in one neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington, where they’ll be delivering packages during daylight hours on weekdays. They will be accompanied by a human chaperone at first, although the long-term plan is likely for them to operate without the need for such supervision. The ordering experience on the part of the customer does not change.
GTS Freight Group to install robots in warehouse
The AGVs will reportedly manage a block stacked full pallet warehouse. This system comprises two counterbalance AGVs utilising QR code navigation within block stack lanes and Dematic’s AGV Manage Warehouse Control Software (WCS) interfaced with paperless Warehouse Management System (WMS).