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Kiva Systems founders to enter Logistics Hall of Fame as mobile robot pioneers

Robotics Business Review

Source: Kiva Systems / Logistics Hall of Fame In 2003, Mick Mountz, Dr. Peter Wurman, and Prof. A jury has voted to recognize their innovation by inducting them into the Logistics Hall of Fame. He decided develop a method for picking, packing, and shipping orders that could deliver any item to any logistics employee at any time. β€œAt

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Look Back at 2014 & 2015 β€œ30 Under 30” Program

Fastener News Desk

The program ran in 2014 & 2015 and then it was put on pause as so many young fastener professionals had been recognized in those two years. Candidly, there were only so many young people entering the fastener industry and they feared that by running the program again they would run out of worthy candidates.

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Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid lands first official job

Robotics Business Review

The company today signed a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics Inc., the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, to deploy its Digit humanoids in various logistics operations. The logistics provider is paying Agility Robotics under a robotics-as-a-service ( RaaS ) model.

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RBR50 Spotlight: Exotec Skypod system scales to serve automotive supplier’s SKU volume

Robotics Business Review

Organization: Exotec Country: France Website: [link] Year Founded: 2015 Number of Employees: 500+ Innovation Class: Application & Market Many warehouse operators are struggling with increasing complexity and recent innovations in automation promise to help them adapt and scale their businesses.

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Mobile Robotics – Increasing Flexibility Enables Increasing Efficiency in Logistics

i4.0 today

IDTechEx’s market research report, titled β€œ Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing, and Delivery 2024-2044 ”, delves into the technical, regulatory, and market aspects influencing the emerging logistics mobile robot industry. from 2015 to 2022. from 2015 to 2022. Trend of cumulative funding from 2015 to 2022.

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Connected and automated mobility revolution set to deliver Β£66 billion prize by 2040

SMMT

Connected and automated mobility: The UK economic and market opportunities sets out the extensive socio-economic benefits for Britain if connected and automated mobility (CAM) technology is adopted in a range of commercial applications, from self-driving cars and logistics vehicles to automated buses, taxis, shuttles and even tractors.

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Odense Robotics culture of collaboration can overcome economic challenges, says CEO

Robotics Business Review

“We’re looking at agriculture, food, construction, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing — places used to automation and not so used to it.” acquired in 2015 and 2018 , respectively. ” From 2015 to 2024, more than € 1 billion ($1.09 “Talent attracts talent, and we now have a critical mass.”

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