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Mobile Robotics – Increasing Flexibility Enables Increasing Efficiency in Logistics

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IDTechEx’s market research report, titled “ Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing, and Delivery 2024-2044 ”, delves into the technical, regulatory, and market aspects influencing the emerging logistics mobile robot industry. from 2015 to 2022. from 2015 to 2022. Trend of cumulative funding from 2015 to 2022.

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Forcen closes funding to develop ‘superhuman’ robotic manipulation

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Source: Forcen Forcen last week said it has closed a funding round of CAD $8.35 ” Founded in 2015, Forcen said its goal is to enable businesses to easily deploy “(super)human” robotic manipulation in complex and unstructured applications. Forcen says its technology will help robotic manipulation advance as vision has.

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Agility Robotics partners with leading WMS provider, cuts staff

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Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics made a couple of strategic moves this week as it continues to commercialize its Digit humanoid. There are a lot of warehouse management systems (WMS) on the market, but as one source told The Robot Report , Manhattan Associates is “the standard bearer when it comes to large 3PL operations.”

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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET

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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. billion pounds in 2022.

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IDTechEx Asks if Outdoor Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) Are the Next Driver for Mobile Robotics Market

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According to the database of IDTechEx, cumulative investments for delivery vans have skyrocketed a 653-fold from 2015 to 2022. Source: IDTechEx In addition to the technologies and regulations, IDTechEx also delves into the choice of items delivered. altitude, buildings nearby, etc.), Ground-based vehicles and drone chart.

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

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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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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

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Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic began, sources said. By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Prices for all grades of PE were down a net of 2 cents for full-year 2022.

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