GreyOrange announced a AI-powered modular sortation system that provides flexible automation in modern distribution and logistics centers, and can sort close to 12,000 parcels per hour.
Plus One Robotics helps warehousing robots get scene perception, allowing them to identify and pick parcels from a cluttered pile.
Ideas about what a driverless future will be like.
Convoy is now matching 100 percent of loads automatically in major markets, effectively eliminating the need for any person to call or communicate between the shipper and carrier.
Though semi autonomous trucks would be a reality in a decade, IRU believes that it would not displace drivers from the trucking ecosystem but would only make their jobs more sophisticated.
Delivery robots, shifting supply chains due to trade wars, and automation slowing productivity in ports
Wise Systems is building a fully automated system that allows teams to manage their entire fleet through cloud-based machine learning and provides dispatch routing that lets businesses plan, manage, and coordinate all aspects of deliveries with complete visibility.
DHL’s advent into warehouse automation; India struggles with air pollution as coal consumption increases; WTI rates in danger of falling further.
Beijing-based startup Geek+ is a pioneer of AI-enabled logistics robots for warehouses, and is powering technological transformation of the logistics industry.
At MarketWaves18, FreightWaves announced the Freight.Tech 25, the industry’s list of the most innovative and disruptive companies in transportation and logistics: Uber Freight took the sixth position.
The second FreightWaves book, Freight Revolution: the supply chain will never be the same, sponsored by Uber Freight, is now available for download.
Omnitracs would be leveraging Rubrik’s APIs to accelerate its journey towards digital transformation, with a reported 90% saving in time spent working on legacy solutions.
In partnership with Slync… globalized supply chains are complex and subject to many risks. By automating workflows and creating AI assistants, companies can speed time-to-decision, reduce error, and make their supply chains more resilient.
iLabX will be run in collaboration with L Marks, a corporate innovation specialist. The program will accept entries in four categories related to tech and transport.
Freight Alley expands with the addition of Grupo Sesé, Carrefour turns to blockchain, Airbus will name its new CEO, and more in Today’s Pickup.
Capacity creator, waterfall tendering, and max buys based on near-time market rates should help make brokers even more productive.
Discussions around the topic of autonomous trucks would not be complete without it addressing three main concerns – job security of drivers, data privacy, and liability issues.
Leaders from state departments of transportation across the country participated in a panel discussion about connected and automated vehicles, and the winding road to their ubiquitous adoption.
Autonomous vehicles are the future, but how does the path to automation look like?
Technology is set to up-end three of the largest industries that truckers ship for: Retail, auto, and agriculture. All three are under attack from technology forces.
