Feb 19, 2021

As e-commerce grows, automation and artificial intelligence help companies keep pace

Recent months, and the last holiday season, in particular, brought an e-commerce boom like no other. As the pandemic accelerated trends already in motion, online shopping and deliveries exploded and possibilities surrounding automation and artificial intelligence zoomed to the forefront. Now as businesses consider the changing landscape, the use of automation and AI are weaving more tightly into the practices of many operations.

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Jan 19, 2021

Autonomous robotic piece-picking reaches adolescence in turbulent times

2020 was not the ideal year for a maturing automation technology to expand and improve, but it did.

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Jan 08, 2021

Why automation is no longer a choice, it's a necessity

Artug Acar, director of product management at RightHand Robotics, says that the stressors that the pandemic has placed on the global supply chain only underscored the benefits of reducing — or even removing — human workers from logistics facilities.

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Dec 18, 2020

MHPN Readers' Choice Award Win, F-Prime Capital Invests in RHR, Modern Materials Handling Article

New awards, new investments, and will 2020 be forever known as the "summer of piece-picking"? Happy holidays everyone!

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Dec 12, 2020

Modern Materials Handling Robotics Finds Its Place In Fulfillment

Robotics has gained rapid traction in the last few years of economic growth and low unemployment, as companies began implementing as a means of increasing productivity and coping with the labor crunch. Now the Covid-19 disruption has changed the unemployment picture, but vendors still see a pressing need for innovation.

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Dec 10, 2020

Material Handling Product News Readers' Choice Awards Products of the Year

Material Handling Product News is proud to announce the winners of our fifth-annual Readers’ Choice Products of the Year award. This award honors the achievements of companies for advances in materials handling systems and equipment within manufacturing, distribution centers and warehouses.

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Nov 19, 2020

CRN The 20 Coolest Tech Startups of 2020

From AI security and Kubernetes to storage and edge networking, here are 20 of the hottest technology startups in 2020.

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Nov 17, 2020

How Piece-Picking Robots are Transforming the Warehouse

In this conversation with SupplyChainBrain Editor-in-Chief Bob Bowman, Vince Martinelli, head of product and marketing with RightHand Robotics, reviews the current and future state of robots in the warehouse.

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Nov 09, 2020

Supply Professional Creating the Warehouse of the Future

Perhaps the most significant by-product of the e-commerce revolution is that customers now expect that they can have exactly what they want, when they want it, and at the right price. This puts enormous pressure on supply chains.

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Nov 01, 2020

Modern Materials Handling Robotics Software Takes Control

Just like WES, robot operating systems are undergoing a transformation that may change the way we manage distribution centers.

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Sep 22, 2020

Peaking Into Fall and Picking Up Steam

RightHand Robotics featured in The Wall Street Journal, FreightWaves' What the Truck?!? podcast, plus a new case study by Intel®.

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Sep 09, 2020

Business Insider 100 People Transforming Business

RightHand Robotics is leading the industry in an area of warehousing automation that’s deceptively difficult to achieve: Teaching robots to autonomously and reliably pick up an object from one place and put it down in another. This combination of computer vision and mechanical gripping — the holy grail of manufacturing automation — cuts down on the amount of rote work required of warehouse employees.

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Aug 08, 2020

WSJ As E-Commerce Booms, Robots Pick Up Human Slack

Nearly every company across every industry is looking for new ways to minimize human contact, cut costs and address the labor crunch in repetitive and dangerous jobs. WSJ explores why many are looking to robots as the solution for all three.

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Jul 31, 2020

FreightWaves RoboFreight: Rise of Warehouse Automation

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the rise of warehouse automation and why it’s a leading space for innovation, how BCB Transport is helping drivers in the time of COVID, a trucker shares their story of finding lost money at a rest stop, and we have an orchestral #PlayItForward. They’re joined by special guests Vince Martinelli, Head of Product and Marketing at RightHand Robotic; Rick Larkin, President at BCB Transport; Jake Semba, Consulting summer analyst, CarrierDirect; and trucker Sharla Grimm.

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Jun 12, 2020

RightHand Robotics is Committed to the Fight for Racial Justice and Equality

RightHand Robotics stands with others across the nation in the denouncing of racial injustice.

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Jun 10, 2020

Thoughts on the Impact of COVID-19 and Essential Supply Chain Automation

In the past three months, we at RightHand Robotics (RHR) have seen an increase in utilization of our piece-picking technology, especially among customers who are experiencing increased demand on their direct-to-consumer business.

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Mar 20, 2020

Rising Up to Challenging Times

We are grateful to all who are involved on the front lines of the COVID-19 situation, and everybody else who are playing so many important roles around the world to help others during these challenging times.

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Feb 04, 2020

Okamura Partners with RightHand Robotics

Okamura Corporation and RightHand Robotics announce a partnership to further automate warehouse operations.

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Jan 13, 2020

RightHand Robotics Welcomes Larry Chin as Head of Sales

RightHand Robotics is pleased to announce that Larry Chin, formerly of Rockwell Automation, has joined the company as Head of Sales.

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Nov 08, 2019

Setting Up Shop in Japan and Other Cool Robots in Supply Chain News

RightHand Robotics GK, presenting with Element Logic at IMHX, Gartner Cool Vendor 2019, and AMA with Vecna Robotics.

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Oct 10, 2019

RightHand Robotics GK subsidiary opens in Japan

RightHand Robotics, a robotic piece-picking company headquartered in Somerville, Mass., opened a corporate entity in Tokyo called RightHand Robotics GK.

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Oct 10, 2019

RightHand Robotics Establishes Japan Entity

RightHand Robotics has announced the establishment of a new corporate entity in Japan, RightHand Robotics GK.

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Aug 08, 2019

Robots Share Center Stage, Human Hiring on the Rise at RHR

New product launch party video, feature in Bloomberg, teaming up with Element Logic, and spotlight in Robohub podcast.

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Jun 17, 2019

Piece-Picking and Mobile Robots Unite

RHR and Locus, RHR and Manhattan Associates, RBR50, ProMat 2019 in 90 Seconds, and a reminder that we're hiring!

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May 21, 2019

Manhattan Associates Creates New Program

Manhattan Associates Inc. announces the launch of the Manhattan Automation Network to advance warehouse robotics and automation.

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May 20, 2019

Locus Robotics Announces Partnership with RightHand Robotics

Locus Robotics announces technology collaboration partnership with RightHand Robotics.

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May 14, 2019

RightHand Robotics Named 2019 Top 50 Robotics Company by RBR

RightHand Robotics to 2019 RBR50 list of leading automation companies.

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Apr 08, 2019

Next Generation RightPick2 Unveiled at ProMat

RightHand Robotics unveils RightPick2 at ProMat, and surpasses 10 million picks with the RightPick platform.

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Apr 04, 2019

RightHand Robotics Integrates First Put Wall in Capacity® Fulfillment Center

RightHand Robotics Integrates First Put Wall in Capacity® Fulfillment Center

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Mar 19, 2019

RightHand Robotics Partners with PALTAC Corporation

RightHand Robotics partners with PALTAC Corporation to further automate operations.

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Dec 18, 2018

Big round for robotics company picking up where Kiva left off

RightHand Robotics takes on the hardest technical challenge of the ecommerce era: Teaching a machine to pick stuff up.

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Dec 17, 2018

RightHand Robotics Raises $23 Million in Series B Funding

RightHand Robotics secures $23 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures.

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Dec 17, 2018

RightHand Robotics raises $23 million from Menlo Ventures, Google

Automated piece-picking startup RightHand Robotics Inc. has raised $23 million in funding from high-profile investors Menlo Ventures and Google Inc., and will use the capital to help its customers handle booming e-commerce growth given a scarcity of labor, the firm said today.

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Dec 17, 2018

RightHand Robotics Raises $23 Million for Warehouse Automation Expansion

Startup is among companies developing tools for gripping and lifting a variety of objects at distribution centers.

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Apr 13, 2018

RightHand Robotics: MODEX 2018 Site of Automated Piece-Picking World Record

RightPick booth demonstrations successfully pick and place more than 130,000 items

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Apr 10, 2018

Robotic piece-picking gets smarter with new AI software at RightHand Robotics

Just one year after its debut, the stationary piece-picking robots from RightHand Robotics for warehousing and fulfillment centers continue to evolve to address the individual unit handling needs of e-commerce and omni-channel retailers.

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