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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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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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Female robotics founders discuss their journeys in the industry

Robotics Business Review

Sources: Diligent Robotics, Adagy Robotics Almost half of all startups that began in 2021 were formed by women, according to human resources cloud software company Gusto. We’re really excited about logistics and manufacturing right now,” Shinkle said. Within the robotics industry, however, it’s a different story.

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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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The Connectivity Revolution: How the Emergence of 5G Networks Are Reshaping Manufacturing

21st Century Tech

From manufacturing to supply chain strategies and logistics, IoT sensors can harness the potential of 5G to create a connected, intelligent ecosystem, transforming the way companies operate. This is essential for high-definition spatial data and video streaming, complex sensor data, and other data-intensive applications.

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Smartify Robots – Critical Functions of Sensors in Robot Navigation

i4.0 today

Robots, by definition, are machines with autonomy. Over the past several years, robots have gained significant momentum in a variety of industries, such as logistics and delivery, manufacturing, cleaning and disinfection, and daily services. autonomous navigation, object detection, force measurement, collision detection, etc.)

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Robotics and Automation in 2022 – Can They be a Hedge to Recession?

i4.0 today

This has made many large companies aware of the weaknesses of the current business model where manufacturing is outsourced, and global logistics is heavily needed. Source: IDTechEx. fold increase in demand for logistics and delivery robots and a 6.8-fold Source: IDTechEx. One of the fundamental concepts of Industry 5.0