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Outrider brings in $62M to drive commercial scaling in 2025

Robotics Business Review

Source: Outrider Outrider today announced that it has raised $62 million in an oversubscribed Series D financing round. The provider of autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs said the funding will drive its operations as a service with Fortune 500 customers in 2025 and solidify its position as a leader in logistics automation. “By

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Rapid Robotics’ new CEO explains the use of AI to accelerate accurate picking

Robotics Business Review

Source: Rapid Robotics Many companies are racing to apply the latest advances in artificial intelligence to robotics. Source: LinkedIn “I first went to school for design, actually, and then realized that what I really love is running a business,” she told The Robot Report. Kimberly Losey, CEO of Rapid Robotics.

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Mobile Industrial Robots launches MiR1200 autonomous pallet jack

Robotics Business Review

Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, are among the systems benefitting from the latest advances in artificial intelligence. Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Mobile Industrial Robots makes safety a priority “Safety is in the DNA of every MiR product,” said Hathout. million images, according to Kumar.

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Supply chain security: local vs global

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Britain is the main source of imports for Ireland, making up more than 20 per cent in 2018 and 2019, despite uncertainty around the UK’s departure from the EU, according to the Central Statistics Office.

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ABB expands robot production and training in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Robotics Business Review

Source: ABB ABB Ltd. Source ABB Customer Experience Center Bubnikovich said ABB’s new Customer Experience Center will “showcase its latest and greatest technologies.” ABB Robotics has invested $30 million in training since 2019 across four locations, opening its Auburn Hills manufacturing facility in 2015.

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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET

Plastics News

Regional PET bottle resin prices also were up 2 cents for the month, according to market sources contacted by Plastics News. Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said. Mexico was the largest source of U.S. and the first U.S.

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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

Plastics News

Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic began, sources said. From 2019-21, almost 40 percent of the region's overall PE production was sold into export markets, with that amount reaching a record 21.1 billion pounds in 2022.

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