Fetch Robotics Garners Two More Industry Awards

Fetch Robotics Garners Two More Industry Awards

Fetch Robotics has focused on solving some of the most pressing problems in the supply chain with our combination of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and on-demand automation since 2014. And, people continue to take notice. We are proud to announce that Fetch is the recipient of two additional awards this month:

• The AI Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Robotics company, which was awarded by Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership.
• The Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 Top Supply Chain Transformations (SDCE 100), awarded by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine

 The SDCE 100 award spotlights successful and innovative transformation projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across the range of supply chain functions. This is the second year in a row that Fetch is featured in the list. This year, Fetch was recognized based on our work with Framebridge, an online custom framing company. 

Framebridge deployed Fetch Robotics’ Cloud Robotics Platform and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) resulting in a 70% improvement in operational efficiency of employees’ transporting items. Building custom frames involves the movement of frame components from one area of production to another for matting, framing and finishing the custom art. Throughout the course of the day, this workflow required an employee to transport the material and travel up to forty round trips between stations.  Now, the framed artwork is automatically picked up by one of Fetch’s CartConnect robots, which self-navigates to and from the matting, framing and finishing stations. Framebridge’s highly trained artisans now spend more time building, rather than transporting, parts.

The TagSurveyor robot provides fully automatic, physical inventory counts of customer-owned artwork in the expansive warehouse. Framebridge attaches a unique RFID tag to each item received. TagSurveyor self-drives inside a designated area in the warehouse, reads the RFID tag, and sends location-based coordinates to Fetch’s cloud software. Protecting and tracking these precious pieces is central to all operational decisions at Framebridge.  Learn more about Framebridge in our case study that can be found here. 

The AI Breakthrough Awards recognize the top companies, technologies and products in Artificial Intelligence. Fetch was named the Best Overall Robotics Company for our use of AI in creating robots that work with people and maneuver in a “human” way. Traditionally, robotics engineers create motion-planning algorithms, which focus purely on optimization and efficiency. In these traditional cases, the robot perceives all obstacles the same. Without further semantic understanding of the environment, these algorithms can lead to jerky, unpredictable, and unnatural movements of the robot leading to a perception that the robot is unaware of its surroundings. Fetch is using AI and deep learning in order for our robots to become smarter and more aware of the environments that they share with people.

 Our team continues to work tirelessly on behalf of our customers who have adopted the complete line of Fetch AMRs to safely work alongside employees and help the companies and employees become more efficient.

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Fetch Robotics Named As a Leader In IDC MarketScape Report

Fetch Robotics Named As a Leader In IDC MarketScape for Autonomous Mobile Robots for General Warehouse Automation

Report Recognizes Fetch as an AMR Leader Owing to Cloud Robotics Expertise, Broad Product Portfolio, Ease of Integration

SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 29, 2019 — Fetch Robotics, the pioneer of on-demand automation, today announced that it has been named as a Leader by industry analyst group IDC in the IDC MarketScape assessment of eight key vendors providing Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) for the general automation market.

The “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Autonomous Mobile Robots for General Warehouse Automation 2019 Vendor Assessment” says “. … companies that are looking for a long-term partner across multiple dimensions of material movement automation and a road map for digital transformation will find Fetch as a company with both the ability to deliver in the near term and the vision to deliver on the future-state vision.”

“Historically, automation projects would take many months or even years to implement the technology,” according to John Santagate, Research Director, IDC. “Now, vendors like Fetch are delivering autonomous mobile robots for flexible automation that can be deployed in hours. Fetch’s cloud first approach, from the software side, is certainly an enabler of rapid deployment, one customer reference even indicated that they were able to unbox a Fetch robot at 9 a.m. and were using it in production workflows by 1 p.m. that same afternoon.”

“It is extremely gratifying to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape as a Leader in the AMR market,” said Melonee Wise, CEO of Fetch Robotics. “This is quite an honor for Fetch and a tribute to our customers, partners, and employees who have all helped to make this happen.”

Fetch Robotics has become successful in the AMR industry owing to it’s combination of:

Cloud Robotics Expertise
Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven AMR solution that addresses material handling and data collection for warehousing, manufacturing facilities, and intralogistics environments. Fetch’s cloud-first approach means that AMRs are deployed in a matter of hours.

Broad Product Portfolio
Material handling is not a one-size-fits-all solution, so Fetch offers the industry’s broadest selection of AMRs. These AMRs deploy and redeploy in hours and move anything from parts to pallets in warehouses, factories, and distribution centers — all while working safely alongside people, forklifts, and other material handling equipment.

Integration Options
Fetch is unique in that it can be up and running in a matter of hours without any need for integration, but the technology is also designed to easily integrate as needed with operational and decision support systems.

To learn more about how Cloud Robotics delivers on-demand automation for warehouses and manufacturing, download: https://info.fetchrobotics.com/idc-cloud-robotics-spotlight

Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Autonomous Mobile Robots for General Warehouse Automation 2019 Vendor Assessment, Doc # US44843019, May 2019

About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About Fetch Robotics
Fetch Robotics is an award-winning intralogistics automation company headquartered in Silicon Valley. We provide innovative, on-demand warehouse automation solutions for material handling and inventory management by combining mobile robotics with the power of the cloud to find, track, and move almost anything in any facility. Fetch Robotics’ solutions and services are deployed in leading distribution, fulfillment, and manufacturing centers around the world, augmenting workforces to drive increased efficiency and productivity. For more information, please visit https://www.fetchrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter @FetchRobotics.

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Winner Announced of Fetch Robotics FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Winner of Fetch Robotics FetchIt! Challenge Executes Complex Manufacturing Tasks Using Autonomous Mobile Robotic Arm

Georgia Institute of Technology Awarded Prize Package Worth Over $150K In Inaugural Contest Hosted at IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 22 2019 — Fetch Robotics, the pioneer of on-demand automation, today announced the results of the inaugural FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge. The competition was designed to advance the state of technology for applying mobile manipulators, which are autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) fitted with robotic arms, for use in manufacturing and related applications. The FetchIt! Challenge attracted teams from leading universities, who were tasked with using a Fetch Mobile Manipulator robot to navigate to stations in a work cell where they picked up items with the arm, inserted them into a machining tool, placed the machined items into kits, transported the finished kits to an inspection station, and then to a drop-off location. This is the first competition that encompasses the full range of activities that are commonly found in manufacturing environments.

Georgia Tech was awarded first prize for successfully assembling three kits in thirty-nine minutes, earning a prize package that included a Fetch Mobile Manipulation Research Robot – a $100K value – along with additional prizes from co-sponsors EandM, SCHUNK GmbH and SICK AG.  More information on the FetchIt! Challenge is available here.

FetchIt! Challenge participants included:

• Team Columbia: Columbia University, led by Professor Peter K. Allen, PhD, and Neil Chen
• Team DeRAILers: The Georgia Institute of Technology, led by Associate Professor Sonia Chernova, PhD and David Kent
• Team RoboHawks: The University of Massachusetts Lowell, led by Professor Holly Yanco, PhD, Assistant Professor Reza Ahmadzadeh, PhD and Zhao Han
• Team Fido: Independent Competitors, Thomas Butterworth and Ben Jarvhi

Autonomous mobile robots are seeing rapid adoption in multiple applications, particularly for material movement tasks in warehouses and factories. This has fueled growing interest in using AMRs equipped with robotic arms – so called Mobile Manipulators – for applications that combine autonomous transport with robotic arms that can grasp and manipulate objects. While conceptually simple, combining autonomous mobility with robotic arm activity is extremely challenging, requiring complex interaction between the robot navigation, machine vision, arm operation and safety systems.

The FetchIt! competition focused on teams autonomously completing combined manipulation and navigation tasks. The goal was to assemble a kit from six objects obtained from stations around the designated arena. Designed to mimic a common machine-tending process in manufacturing, the objects were picked from bins and then placed in a kit and transported to a drop-off location. All teams used a stock Fetch Mobile Manipulator, which is the most widely deployed mobile manipulation robot, deployed at over fifty of the world’s leading academic and commercial robotic research centers.

“I’d like to congratulate all the teams for their accomplishments during the course of this challenge,” according to Russell Toris, Director of Robotics at Fetch Robotics. “When setting out to create this challenge, we knew we wanted to keep it grounded to a real-word scenario. Interacting with machinery that is designed to be used by humans is no easy task. Piece-picking, kitting, and countless other tasks are going to require state-of-the-art perception, motion planning, navigation, and safety all seamlessly working together. The teams’ performance this week indicate that they represent some of the world’s leading experts in these skills.”

1st Place: Team DeRAILers, Georgia Tech 

First prize winners Team DeRAILERs took home a Fetch Mobile Manipulation Research Robot, along with 7,000 Schunk Bucks. “We’re very excited to have won the FetchIt! challenge,” said Georgia Tech’s Sonia Chernova. “It has allowed us to validate our research code in a complex domain. We can’t wait to continue our work with our newest Fetch robot.”

2nd Place: Team RoboHawks, University of Massachusetts Lowell

A great effort from second place Team Robohawks, who won a MRS1000 4-layer LiDAR sensor and a TiM561 LiDAR laser scanner provided by SICK and EandM, along with 5,000 Schunk Bucks. Holly Yanco from UMass Lowell added: “Everyone from Fetch has been helpful and very encouraging. This has been an amazing experience and the tasks used for the competition form a great basis for our ONR MURI research.”

Platform for Robotic Research
Designed to work with the Robot Operating System (ROS) for the greatest common usability and familiarity, the Fetch Mobile Manipulator and the Freight Mobile Robot Base are  robotics platforms used by researchers around the world to collaborate and share research. The Fetch Mobile Manipulator provides an affordable, fully-integrated standard platform for mobile manipulation research that has been purposefully designed for typical human working environments. The Fetch Research Robot is being used by researchers and innovators at the world’s most advanced organizations, including Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Google, Northeastern University, OpenAI, Shenzen University, Softbank, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of Sydney, University of Tokyo, Virginia Tech and more.

About Fetch Robotics
Fetch Robotics is an award-winning intralogistics automation company headquartered in Silicon Valley. We provide innovative, on-demand warehouse automation solutions for material handling and inventory management by combining mobile robotics with the power of the cloud to find, track, and move almost anything in any facility. Fetch Robotics’ solutions and services are deployed in leading distribution, fulfillment, and manufacturing centers around the world, augmenting workforces to drive increased efficiency and productivity. For more information, please visit https://www.fetchrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter @FetchRobotics.

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Ryder Partners with Fetch Robotics to Deploy On-Demand Automation and Increase Warehouse Productivity

Ryder Partners with Fetch Robotics to Deploy On-Demand Automation and Increase Warehouse Productivity

Uses Fetch Cloud Robotics Platform for On-Demand Automation to deploy Autonomous Mobile Robots in Warehouses

From retail and e-commerce to pharma and part and parcel, Fetch Robotics solutions help 3PLs improve efficiency, win business faster, and better serve customers in any industry. Fetch Robotics is proud to announce it has partnered with Ryder Supply Chain Solutions to help deliver advanced automation, flexibility, and instantly scalable operations.

Through the power of the Fetch Cloud Robotics Platform for On-Demand Automation, material handling and data collection robots can be up and running in less than one day, and can be migrated from one contract to another due to ease of deployment and ability to perform a variety of tasks. No need for massive infrastructure overhauls, WMS integrations, or complex IT system installations. Just immediate contribution to your bottom line by saving travel and labor time, and allowing warehouse associates to focus on higher-level and more productive tasks.

“Ryder – with its established network and broad bench of diverse customers – is the ideal partner for Fetch Robotics to implement our advanced robotics platform,” said Melonee Wise, CEO of Fetch Robotics. “Together, our companies can provide autonomous mobile robot solutions to serve both warehouse employees and Ryder’s customers; ultimately making supply chain and logistics safer and more efficient. Our top priority is to help our customers achieve on-demand automation with a fast, flexible and scalable cloud-based platform that minimizes strenuous manual labor and streamlines inventory processes. We’re seeing this come to life successfully through the smart warehouses Ryder has developed.”

If you would like to learn more about how Fetch Robotics’ material handling and automated data collection solutions can improve throughput, efficiency, and productivity in your facility, please see the links below. If you would like to discuss your immediate needs now with one of our solutions experts, you can schedule a free consultation here.

About Fetch Robotics
Fetch Robotics is the pioneer of on-demand automation. The Fetch Cloud Robotics Platform provides the only Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution that deploys in hours vs. days or weeks and addresses multiple applications – including material handling and automated data collection – with a common, unified, cloud-based platform. Fetch Robotics offers turnkey and extensible systems that find, track, and move anything from parts to pallets in warehouses, factories, and distribution centers. For more information, please visit https://www.fetchrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter @FetchRobotics.

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Honeywell Partners with Fetch Robotics to Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to Distribution Center

Honeywell Partners with Fetch Robotics to Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to Distribution Center

Expands Smart Robotics Portfolio to Help Warehousing Operations Fulfill Growing e-Commerce Orders More Efficiently

FORT MILL, S.C., Oct. 16, 2018 — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced a strategic collaboration with Fetch Robotics to provide distribution centers with autonomous mobile robots to help them more effectively fulfill growing volumes of e-commerce orders.

The initiative enables Honeywell Intelligrated’s customers to increase productivity and boost labor efficiency by deploying Fetch Robotics’ autonomous mobile robotics, which operate safely alongside people to transport items through distribution centers without human guidance or fixed paths. By adding this offering to its smart robotics portfolio, Honeywell Intelligrated can provide customers with a range of flexible automation solutions that can be tailored to address current and future operational needs.

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Honeywell Intelligrated previously announced its collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University to develop next-generation artificial intelligence and smart robotics technologies for distribution centers.  The Fetch Robotics collaboration adds mobility capability to the portfolio of smart robotics solutions Honeywell is bringing to market.

“As staffing challenges and the continued growth of online shopping are pressuring supply chains, robotics can be an effective solution to help make large, integrated distribution centers more efficient,” said Pieter Krynauw, president of Honeywell Intelligrated. “With this arrangement, we can provide our customers with a complete suite of fixed and mobile robotics solutions, backed by the expert systems integration, solutions development and reliable, 24/7 technical support they expect from us.”

Fetch Robotics offers a range of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that use a combination of LiDAR and 3D cameras – similar to self-driving car technology – to navigate unpredictable warehouse environments safely and accurately. In the event of an obstacle, these robots can adjust routes in real time, unlike automated guided vehicle systems, which depend on pre-programmed, fixed paths. This enables the AMRs to take on repetitive warehousing tasks that may otherwise require significant travel time between locations and transporting heavy loads. Fetch Robotics’ solutions are also able to deploy and redeploy in just a single day without integration requirements or changes to infrastructure.

“We are committed to helping customers achieve their productivity goals by providing on-demand automation that enables a wide range of flexible and safe AMRs to be rapidly deployed,” said Melonee Wise, CEO, Fetch Robotics. “We fully expect our relationship with Honeywell Intelligrated to help accelerate the adoption of our cloud robotics solution within the logistics and manufacturing verticals.”

Companies are increasingly turning to robotics to gain competitive advantage in the supply chain, with adoption expected to rise from 34 to 73 percent over the next five years, according to a survey in the 2018 Material Handling Institute’s annual report. The study identified that the most common uses for robotics in warehousing operations include tasks like receiving and putting away inventory.

Honeywell Intelligrated provides automation equipment, software and services to more than 60 of the top 100 global retailers and half of the top 100 internet retailers. Distribution centers can deploy the business’s Momentum™ warehouse execution system to bring together automation solutions, workflows, orders and labor in a unified platform to provide real-time visibility and help make operations more efficient.

Fetch Robotics develops and manufactures AMRs for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and logistics providers. The company provides an extensive and versatile portfolio of mobile robots and a powerful, cloud-based software platform that offers on-demand automation for a range of applications, including material handling and inventory management.

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