Supply Chain

?Advancements in the hygienic design of robots have been driven by the increasing call to achieve the highest level of sanitation in the handling of raw food products,? said John Bubnikovich, executive director, marketing and business development, ABB Robotics. ?Working...

The Amazon/Kiva deal came as cannon shot across the bows of warehouses everywhere?and not just at pick & pack, goods-to-person order fulfillment shops. All warehousing, up and down supply chains everywhere, is now on notice that the robots are coming.

Indeed, what is alternately called biomimicry or bio-inspiration?across robotics and other industries?could represent $300 billion annually of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 dollars within 15 years, according to the Da Vinci Index, a biomimicry report developed by a...

Seegrid's vision-guided technology is to be used in automated lift truck.

As head of Worldwide Automotive Industry Solutions Operations for Delmia, Digital Manufacturing & Production, a unit of Dassault Systems, Shree Harsha has a front-row seat on an industry that’s rapidly evolving. “How many cars have you owned over the past...

Dual-arm robots, in particular, are seeing wider acceptance among end-use industries.

The new 2011 report sees 1.3 million robots operating in manufacturing facilities worldwide within two years.

'The partnership will enable Seegrid and Cisco-Eagle to bring robotic industrial truck solutions to Cisco-Eagle customers.'

Leaders in healthcare logistics and robotics technology partner to bring next-generation autonomous mobile robots to North American hospitals.

The mission statement for BlueBotics SA, a 2001 spin-off from the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, reads, “to market innovative and promising mobile robotics technologies.” The company has made good on...