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Top Scissor Lift Trends for 2025: Customization, Automation, and Ergonomics

January 16, 2025 · Discover the latest scissor lift trends for 2025, including advanced customization, seamless automation integration, and ergonomic designs, as Autoquip leads the way in innovative material handling solutions.

FlexLink introduces RC12 palletizing cobot arm

December 9, 2024 · FlexLink’s third generation RC12 palletizing cobot arm features a redesigned, standardized base, safety systems, and a user-friendly interface that require no programming skills.

Locus Robotics picks 10 million units at GEODIS U.S. facility

December 7, 2024 · LocusBots serving GEODIS’ Carlisle, Pa. omnichannel consumer electronics order fulfillment center have surpassed 10 million units picked, helping improve ergonomics and safety.

InTek CEO offers predictions on AI, autonomy for supply chains

August 27, 2024 · InTek Freight & Logistics CEO and co-founder Rick LaGore predicts AI and automation will impact the supply chain industry, helping alleviate labor shortages and disruptions.

Seegrid’s AI, machine learning bring precision to automated lift trucks

August 19, 2024 · Seegrid’s Tom Panzarella and David Griffin explain how cameras, AI, machine learning, and deep learning enable autonomous lift trucks to pick and place pallets with precision.

KION North America to assemble Fox Robotics lift trucks

July 16, 2024 · KION North America will assemble Fox Robotics autonomous lift trucks through a non-exclusive partnership that also aims to establish a U.S. service and support network.

MODEX 2024: Slip Robotics wins Best New Innovation award for SlipBot ALR

May 16, 2024 · Slip Robotics received a Best New Innovation award from MHI at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta for its SlipBot automated loading robot.

Digitally assisted forklifts brew up safer production facilities

March 4, 2024 · Bottles move fast through Switzerland’s largest brewery, making safety a top priority for Feldschlösschen. By retrofitting their forklifts with digital safety systems, the brewery aims to eliminate all safety related incidents by 2030

Kawasaki Robotics partners with Olis Robotics to offer remote monitoring, control of its industrial robots

February 26, 2024 · Kawasaki Robotics and Olis Robotics partnered to enable Olis' remote error recovery software on Kawasaki's robotic fleet.

Association for Advancing Automation celebrates 50th anniversary

January 25, 2024 · Expanding since 1974 to represent over 1,280 member companies, A3 commemorated 50 years of advancing automation and robotics technologies in January 2024.

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Expert Advice: Retrofitting a Facility for Warehouse Automation

September 14, 2023 · Sal Falzone and Semih Kocahasan of Rittal North America discuss what material handlers should consider when retrofitting a facility for warehouse automation.

Pack Station Tricks: Common sense meets tech

September 13, 2023 · Industrial workstation and shelving options are abundant for effective pack-out areas. Configuring an ideal set up for your operation is part commonsense work-cell design that eliminates wasted or awkward movements, but technology can also play a role.

Parcel automation delivers on two fronts for 3PL

September 6, 2023 · Third-party logistics company iForce deployed an automated packaging solution to provide the speed and labor efficiencies needed to keep up with new picking automation, while the solution’s carton right-sizing also improves the customer experience.

Five bright ideas (you may have missed)

June 6, 2023 · There’s a lot going on out there. So, we did some hunting around and came up with five startups with novel approaches to materials handling and the supply chain. They include two packaging innovations, drones for monitoring inventory, a new approach to safety and a 3D printing platform that…

A new day for warehouse & distribution

April 7, 2022 · Customer requirements are evolving. So are distribution centers and the technologies that support them.