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Pickle Robot gets orders for over 30 unloading systems plus $50M in funding

Robotics Business Review

Source: Pickle Robot Robotic truck unloading fits the classic definition of dull, dirty, or dangerous jobs worth automating. Pickle Robot customers are experiencing the value of ‘Physical AI’ applied to a common logistics process that challenges thousands of operations every day,” said AJ Meyer, founder and CEO of Pickle Robot.

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Sources Sought: Direct Materiel Delivery Visibility for Improved Supply Chain Efficiency

NCMS

February 12, 2024 NCMS is assisting the Department of Defense in seeking industry partners who have the capability to provide the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) with a way to track (in near real-time) Customer Direct contracts, providing delivery of materiel from a supplier without passing through a government distribution point to evaluate required (..)

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Ricoh to provide customer support for Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid

Robotics Business Review

The Digit humanoid could work in distribution, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, and third-party logistics. Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics Inc. based company said it designed Agility Arc to simplify the deployment lifecycle, from facility mapping and workflow definition to operational management and troubleshooting.

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Rightshoring: Discover Your Component Sourcing Sweet-spot

i4.0 today

Especially in light of the pandemic, which highlighted significant vulnerabilities in global logistics and supply risks. It’s an attractive middle-ground that enables OEMs to adopt a hybrid sourcing strategy that considers multiple factors. By definition, rightshoring seems to be the obvious ‘catch all’ solution.

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Rightshoring: Discover your component sourcing sweet-spot

MEM

Especially in light of the pandemic, which highlighted significant vulnerabilities in global logistics and supply risks. It’s an attractive middle-ground that enables OEMs to adopt a hybrid sourcing strategy that considers multiple factors. By definition, rightshoring seems to be the obvious ‘catch all’ solution.

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Zion Solutions Group to be first systems integrator for Agility Robotics’ Digit

Robotics Business Review

Source: Agility Robotics To spread industrial settings, humanoid robots must prove their utility and integrate with enterprise systems. Agility Robotics added that Digit can work safely in human spaces and perform a variety of difficult, repetitive, and sometimes dangerous tasks in logistics and manufacturing operations.

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How humanoid robots can help narrow gaps between automation and labor

Robotics Business Review

Source: Chris Vavra, WTWH Media LLC Four steps for humanoid and MMR deployment Wise said mobile manipulators can address the gaps between “islands of automation” and tackle workflows that need more flexible automation. “That’s part of the reason why we’ve seen a continuing need for new automation technology,” Wise said.

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