Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Caption: “We can give people insights into their inventory, insights into how they’re storing their inventory, how they’re structuring tasks both upstream and downstream of any picking we’re doing,” Odhner says. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers
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For most people, the task of identifying an object, picking it up, and placing it somewhere else is trivial. For robots, it requires the latest in machine intelligence and robotic manipulation.
That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which combine unique gripper designs with artificial intelligence and machine vision to help companies sort products and get orders out the door.
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Q&A with Vince Martinelli is Head of Product & Marketing | RightHand Robotics
Tell us a bit about RightHand Robotics and how the startup was founded.
RightHand Robotics (RHR) builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. RHR is a leader in providing end-to-end solutions that add predictability and reduce costs for e-commerce order-fulfillment of general merchandise, consumer packaged goods, grocery, pharmaceuticals, health and beauty, electronics, apparel and other retail verticals. Unlike traditional factory robots, ours are simple to integrate and easily adaptable to improve customer warehouse processes. Our robots typically pick items from a tote delivered by an AS/RS or a conveyor and are then transferred into outbound totes or cartons.
LONGMONT Left Hand Robotics Inc., a Longmont startup that has developed an autonomous snow-plowing robot, may now be owned by Minnesota-based The Toro Co. (NYSE: TTC), but the firm plans to stay put in Boulder County.
“The Left Hand Robotics team will continue to operate from its facility in Longmont, working closely with The Toro Co.’s engineering and technology teams around the world,” a Toro spokesman told BizWest in an email.
Toro announced this week that it has acquired Left Hand for an undisclosed sum.
Left Hand Robotics founder Terry Olkin will continue to lead the local operation.
“The Toro Co. values the experience and expertise of Left Hand’s founders and employees,” the company said.