Chief in Warehouse Robotics First to Attain this Business Milestone
WILMINGTON, Mass., Sept. 15, 2022 /CNW/ — Locus Robotics (www.locusrobotics.com), the market chief in autonomous cell robots (AMR) for achievement warehouses, immediately introduced they’ve surpassed the One Billion items picked milestone. This new achievement was attained simply 59 days after Locus registered 900 million items picked.
“Reaching our One Billion choose milestone underscores the vital enterprise worth that Locus’s confirmed expertise brings to our prospects all over the world, day by day,” stated Rick Faulk, CEO, Locus Robotics. “The necessity for cost-efficient robotics automation is a must have as e-commerce volumes proceed to extend and the labor shortages persist. Locus is proud to assist our prospects effectively meet this problem with sturdy, enterprise-scale automation options that place them for fulfillment immediately and sooner or later.”
It took Locus 1,542 days to select its first 100 million items and simply 59 days for the final 100 million picks. LocusBots have traveled greater than 17 million miles in prospects’ warehouses, the equal of greater than 670 occasions across the Earth or 35 spherical journeys to the Moon.
The Locus resolution has been deployed at greater than 200 websites all over the world, with as many as 500 LocusBots per website. Locus deployments embrace large-scale greenfield and brownfield websites, and multi-level mezzanine installations.
The billionth choose was made at a serious dwelling enchancment retailer warehouse in Florida, and the merchandise picked was a cordless rotary software package. The milestone choose was made simply milliseconds forward of two different picks: a scented candle from a homegoods warehouse in Ohio, and a operating jacket from a serious world health and shoe model in Pennsylvania. The fast succession of the three picks underscores the excessive order processing quantity happening at Locus-deployed areas all over the world.
“This newest milestone demonstrates each the unimaginable development that Locus Robotics and the AMR {industry} have achieved, and likewise proves the feasibility of shops and logistics corporations’ counting on robotic selecting expertise” stated Ash Sharma, Senior Analysis Director at Work together Evaluation. “One billion picks is an unimaginable milestone and is testomony to Locus Robotics’ innovation and imaginative and prescient over the previous few years.”
As extra consumers proceed to purchase on-line, and as companies put together for what is anticipated to be one other record-breaking vacation season, retailers and achievement warehouse operators are more and more turning to AMRs to fulfill rising demand and mitigate labor shortages to keep away from the chance of shedding helpful prospects.
Locus Robotics’ industry-leading robotics achievement resolution allows manufacturers, retailers, and third-party logistics (3PL) operators to simply meet increased order volumes and growing shopper demand for e-commerce, retail, omnichannel, and manufacturing order achievement. Locus helps world prospects, together with CEVA, DHL, Boots UK, GEODIS, Whiplash, Saddle Creek, Quiet 3PF, Radial, and others, to double and triple their achievement productiveness, reducing labor recruitment, coaching, and retention prices and bettering office ergonomics.
About Locus Robotics
Locus Robotics’ revolutionary, multi-bot resolution incorporates highly effective and clever autonomous cell robots that function collaboratively with human staff to dramatically enhance piece-handling productiveness 2X-3X, with much less labor than conventional selecting techniques. This award-winning resolution helps retailers, 3PLs, and specialty warehouses effectively meet and exceed the more and more complicated and demanding necessities of achievement environments. LocusBots could also be simply built-in into current warehouse infrastructures and new warehouses with out disrupting workflows to immediately remodel productiveness with out reworking the warehouse. For extra info, go to www.locusrobotics.com.
SOURCE Locus Robotics
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