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WMS outsourcing is becoming a trend
The digital world is making it possible for businesses to deal with tons of data collected from customers. Even if you are a small business, you need to backup your data safely. This is where IT outsourcing companies come into action.
Inside Ocado's warehouse where robots assemble orders in 5 minutes
When two Ocado robots pass one another, the gap between them is just 5 mm. The online supermarket says that it only takes 5 minutes to pick and pack items at the warehouse.
Macy’s to open smaller stores, bigger fulfillment centers
Macy’s has unveiled a plan to open smaller, off-mall stores and fulfillment centers while consolidating its current locations.
4 Reasons Why Amazon Fresh Will Change Grocery Shopping Forever
After much buildup and press since the start of 2020, Amazon new grocery concept in Woodland Hills, California is finally here.
DHL to hire 7K associates, increase automation in prep for peak
DHL plans to build up its automation infrastructure with a commitment to expand to 1,000 LocusBot collaborative robots by the end of the year.
Brad Porter, longtime Amazon Robotics leader and distinguished engineer is leaving the company
Amazon’s longtime robotics leader Brad Porter is leaving the company.
Robots As A Service: A Technology Trend Every Business Must Consider
From all indicators, robots as a service (RaaS) is growing rapidly. ABI Research predicts there will be 1.3 million installations of RaaS by 2026 generating $34 billion in revenue. Let’s look at what robots as a service entails, the reasons for its growth and some companies that offer RaaS solutions and the tasks it can support.
Woolworths rolling-out two state-of-the-art facilities in Australia
Woolworths Group and Qube have announced plans to invest in an automated Regional Distribution Centre and a semi-automated National Distribution Centre in New South Wales. The total investment in the facilities from both companies will reach approximately $1.2 billion.
Waitrose.com, fast tracking new fulfilment centre
Waitrose has announced it will build a third distribution centre to rapidly scale up its online presence, while partner Ocado has extended a partnership with a UK robotics company.
British robotics firm signs seven-year deal with Ocado
Ocado has extended a tie-up with a British technology company to manufacture more of its robots as it banks on the boom in online grocery shopping.
The “multi-million” pound investment in Tharsus, based in Blyth, Northumberland, means Ocado can export more of its technology swiftly to other countries.
The contract will create and safeguard a combined 100 jobs in the North East and more widely in the UK, while Tharsus’ sister company Universal Wolf is also recruiting 23 new roles immediately, partly as a result of this contract.
Tharsus was established in 1964 and had just 22 people when CEO Brian Palmer first joined the business in the late 1990s.
Since then it has evolved into a leader in UK robotics, delivering innovative technology solutions to companies such as DHL, Automata and Small Robot Co, employing almost 280 people across three sites in Blyth.
How Can Best Buy Offer for Free Something that Amazon Charges For?
One of the key initiatives Best Buy undertook as it turned itself around over the past seven years was using its stores to fulfill online orders. By using its stores to ship online orders, Best Buy is taking advantage of over 1,000 mini-distribution centers that are already close to where its customers live. Around 70% of the population lives within 10 miles of a Best Buy store, according to the company.
Grocery Chains Broaden Automation with Micro-Fulfillment Centers
The Micro-Fulfillment Centers are designed to provide a lower cost-to-serve by covering the expense of order assembly and last-mile delivery/pickup. Takeoff said the artificial intelligence-enabled robots can assemble grocery orders of up to 60 items in less than five minutes, a fraction of the speed — and cost — of current manual-picking options.
Ross Stores to Build Massive 2 Million Square Feet Automated DC
Ross Stores, Inc. has chosen Waller County to build an automated distribution facility that will be more than 2 million square feet. By comparison, this facility will be twice the size of the Amazon Fulfillment Center which opened in January 2018.
Insights from 3PL Value Creation Summit this week in Chicago
Warehousing customers are still weighing the arbitrage between labor and automation; many are hesitant to invest in expensive robotics because they think the cost will come down significantly in the next few years. But Brian Smith, president and chief executive officer of Kansas City-based Wagner Logistics, said that companies offering warehouse robotics have gotten creative with financing. Low-cost, short-term leases are becoming more common.
But it appears there are still gaps in the kinds of warehouse robots that are available. Russell Leo, the president and CEO of RLS Logistics said:
“in frozen facilities robotics goes out the window.” Instead, to free up capacity and increase throughput, RLS has implemented mobile racks that can slide together or come apart to give workers access to SKUs when they’re needed
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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.