The viability of autonomous mobility for the industrial market has been catalyzed by the success of Kiva Solutions and iRobot. The commercial success of autonomous mobile robotics from these companies has transformed the technology from a novelty and curiosity status…
The ongoing developments in intelligent and flexible material handling systems, which are basically robots, continue to fascinate me. For example, automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) used to be fairly dumb machines that moved from point to point by following a preset…
I read an article by Bob Trebilcock in Modern Materials Handling titled “Automation: Grocery giant Kroger changes the distribution game,”and I was amazed by what Kroger has accomplished, and the risks the company has taken. Kroger implemented an automation system…
