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material-handling robots
First Kiva Systems and now Intelligrated! Who’s next?
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2012
... What is it about automated robotic warehousing? Amazon just acquired Kiva Systems for $775 million and now Permira, a European private equity firm, announced that it was acquiring Intelligrated fo...
Flexible, intelligent robotics debuted in materials handling marketplace
Frank Tobe
07 Jun 2012
... Symbotic, formerly CasePick Systems, is providing mobile robots that grab closed boxes of goods and brings them to a pallet-loading robot. Different from Kiva Systems, recently acquired by Amazon,...
Kiva Systems presents a glimpse of future pick n’ pack fulfillment
Frank Tobe
24 Feb 2012
... At the recent Modex 2012 in Atlanta, Kiva Systems’ booth featured a fully-functioning warehouse operation where attendees walked up and placed their orders on an iPad and then picked their o...
Robotics and smart technologies merge for material handling
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
... There were more buyers than in previous years and they appeared to be holistic in their approach to material handling in the factory and picking and packing in the warehouse. Their reasoning and u...
Modex 2012: Robotic and smart technologies for handling material in factories and warehouses
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
In the emerging world of service robotics, many markets are opening to robotics that were once only handled by industrial robot manufacturers. Safely unmanned, or working alongside human workers, in a...
