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IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
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Three Engineers, Hundreds of Robots, One Warehouse Kiva Systems wants to revolutionize distribution centers by setting swarms of robots loose on the inventory   |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
John Teresko |
Mobile Robots: Automating The Warehouse At Staples, Inc. a mobile robot-based system helped triple order fulfillment rate per operator at a retailer's warehouse. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2010
Joseph Galante |
Kiva Systems: The Rise of the Robots Kiva Systems' warehouse robots help e-commerce stars cut costs and compete in low-margin businesses. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Katharine Gammon |
Stock-Boy Bots Are Stealing American Jobs Robots are stealing American warehouse jobs. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
John Teresko |
Getting Lean with Armless Robots In warehousing, armless mobile robots combine productivity gains with implementation savings through the elimination of waste. |
Inc.
April 2006
Chuck Green |
A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors. |
Inc.
September 1, 2009
Mick Mountz |
The Way I Work: Mick Mountz of Kiva Systems Kiva Systems helps companies such as Zappos and Staples equip their warehouses with a work force of robots |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
John Teresko |
A Robot Buying Spree New orders received by North American-based robot companies rose 39% in the first half of 2007. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2011
Keki Fatakia |
Staples: How It's Dealing With a Sluggish Economy Staples' third-quarter revenue stays flat. |
Popular Mechanics
January 16, 2009
Erik Sofge |
MIT Unveils Intelligent Robot Forklift for War Zones The new, U.S. Army-funded forklift robot recognizes voice commands, can learn the layout of a makeshift warehouse and operate out of doors. It may be able to save lives on the field and make warehouse work more efficient at home. |
CIO
September 15, 2002
Meridith Levinson |
How to Get Your House in Order Everyone knows that every warehouse should run on the same system and be integrated seamlessly with the business's back end. But what everyone knows and what everyone can do are two different things. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
A Staples.com Even 'Lisa Listmaker' Could Love Staples looks to streamline the office supply purchasing process for the busy office manager. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008 |
Slideshow: How Kiva's Robotic Warehouse Works Steps in the Kiva robotic system are demonstrated in these pictures |
National Defense
May 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Susan Hassler |
9/11 and the Rise of Robots A technology spurred by tragedy takes hold |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Robot Orders Jump 41% in North America for First Half of 2011 Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers spark growth. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Staples' Staying Power The office supply retailer reports another solid quarter. Here's a solid long-term play that no investor should be ashamed to have in his or her portfolio. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
At The DARPA Challenge, May The Best Robot Win The DARPA Robotics Challenge is in the final round of the three-year competition to crown the human/robot team best able to respond to a man-made or natural disaster were under way. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Adrienne Selko |
Automation Helps Signicast Stay Ahead of the Curve Manufacturer reduces labor without cutting its workforce. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Thomas Wailgum |
How to Take Your Warehouse Wireless Dorfman Pacific needed to grow, so it needed to get rid of the paper processes that held it back. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
John Teresko |
What Happened to the "Auto" in Automation? Robot sales on the decline to automakers, but on the rise in other sectors. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Fast Talk: Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Robots The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group uses crowdsourced data to teach robots about human behavior. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Revolution The arrival of robots at General Motors Corp. in 1961 brought the promise of flexible automation. Today's advances in research offer robots the chance to reach their full industrial potential. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2005
John Teresko |
New Roles For Robots Once viewed largely as a way to save on labor costs, robots today have taken on more significant roles in manufacturing. They're part of global competitiveness plans and are seeing, moving and servicing better than ever. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
Mike Cianciolo |
Staples Holding Steady International sales help the office-supply retailer weather the shaky U.S. economy. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2011
Eric Spitznagel |
The Robot in the Next Cubicle The new wave of robots for sale is aimed squarely at the office market. |
National Defense
December 2011
Eric Beidel |
Army Enlists More Help from Tiny Robots Soldiers in Afghanistan want their own personal robots to scan the insides of buildings and find homemade bombs. |
IndustryWeek
February 2, 2012
Josh Cable |
Auto-Industry Demand Drives Record Year for Robot Sales But the industry saw gains in other sectors as well. Sales to non-automotive customers grew 27%, led by metalworking industries (up 56%) and semiconductor/electronics/photonics (up 24%), according to the Robotic Industries Association. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2007
Mike Cianciolo |
Fool on the Street: Diversity in Staples' Success Staples lays out its plans for growth and expansion. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Staples Guns It Staples, the office supply retailer, reports a sharp quarter. |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders. |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005 |
ABB Starts To See Daylight ABB's U.S. chief, Dinesh Paliwal, talks about how it is getting in on the global factory boom |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006 |
Just Charge It At Robot Kitchen, in Hong Kong, robots greet, seat, and feed patrons. |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Shades Of Star Wars South Korea intends to integrate robots into both national security efforts and many parts of people's lives, according to several reports. |
Popular Mechanics
June 14, 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Do Robot Players Dream of Synthetic Goals? The World Cup isn't the only global soccer tournament raging in Germany. Welcome to the world of RoboCup, where teams of robot dogs seek their own glory on a modified, wireless-enabled soccer pitch. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Eric Butterfield |
The Future of Robots Tomorrow's domestic help at your service. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
The Robot Evolution MIT's Rodney A. Brooks is among researchers leading the charge to develop a smarter and more useful artificial creature. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much. |
PC Magazine
December 20, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Robot Showpieces Sure you've seen robots, but how about robot art? |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Getting Ready for the 'Robot Revolution' As advances in technology allow for smarter, more versatile robots, they are expected to become more widely used in places such as laboratories, hospitals and food service operations. |
National Defense
May 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Erico Guizzo |
When My Avatar Went to Work A robot surrogate or telepresence robot took my place at the office. Here's why one may take yours, too |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
Technology Research News
May 18, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Machine Reproduces Itself Researchers have built simple modular robots that are capable of reproducing themselves. The robots consist of motorized cubes that can swivel diagonally and connect to each other. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
David Schneider |
Robin Murphy: Roboticist to the Rescue Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2008
Seth Porges |
Real-Life Transformer Could Be First Robot to Fire in Combat New specialized war robots can be quickly modified to the mission at hand. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems. |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
