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Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace. The FAA letter, dated April 8th, was filled...
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Competing robotic warehouse systems
As sales via online retailers steadily increase, so too does the speed with which customers want their goods delivered. Amazon, eBay, and Google all have massive and speedy warehousing operations...
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Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly
The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...
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GreyOrange gets $30m for mobile robots
Co-founders of GreyOrange: Akash Gupta and Samay Kohli GreyOrange, an India and Singapore-based materials handling startup, has received $30m in equity funding to ramp up production of their Butler...
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While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems...
Amazon announced that at the end of September they had 30,000 Kiva robots at work in 13 fulfillment centers, effectively doubling the number of Kiva bots that it had in 2014. “Our intent is to use...
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Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines...
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
Amazon’s “beehive” concept for future multi-storey fulfillment centers. Credit: Amazon June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow,...
View ArticleAnother big robot acquisition: Amazon buys Kiva Systems
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will acquire privately-held Kiva Systems for approximately $775 million! Kiva’s novel warehousing system uses robots to bring the shelves to the picker and packer instead of vice...
View ArticleWhy robot startups now? Part 2
2. Broader Financial Climate A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government backed...
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Distribution centers: An emerging robotics frontier
Distribution centers (DCs) are massive warehouses that receive, inspect and store goods for later picking, packing and shipping to end-users, re-distributors or retail outlets. Products can be...
View ArticleRobotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our...
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Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key...
Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer’s hands within 30 minutes. They are planning to launch as soon as...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME
Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general… Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com
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Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg
On Sunday, Charlie Rose from CBS News 60 Minutes, interviewed Jeff Bezos about what is next for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer with more than 225 million customers. Volume can reach 300...
View ArticleAmid drone talk, Amazon has real robots | Wall Street Journal Blog
Amazon got a lot of ink for its sci-fi drone delivery idea this week, but a more real and immediate robot effort underway in the Seattle retailer’s warehouses could save it as much as $916 million a...
View ArticleDrones on and on and on | The Boston Globe
US needs to join the aviation revolution Last week’s announcement that Amazon is testing the delivery of packages with small drones has created a media storm, and seems to have taken most people by...
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Forget the octocopter, let’s talk about Kiva
Given all the chatter on drones and automation, we thought it would be a good time to dive deeper into the Kiva opportunity and potential impact on leverage/margins. For the sake of our analysis, we...
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Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!
There is serious momentum in robotics these days, evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automation...
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What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car...
They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it...
View ArticleAnother big robot acquisition: Amazon buys Kiva Systems
… Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will acquire privately-held Kiva Systems for approximately $775 million! … Kiva’s novel warehousing system uses robots to bring the shelves to the picker and packer instead of...
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