CHICAGO — IAM Robotics this week introduced updates to its Swift product at ProMat 2019 here. The Pittsburgh-based company will show a new Swift robot design that includes conveyor integration and a transport robot that works with Swift to exchange full or empty totes. These innovations in autonomous navigation and material selection and handling can…
Mobile robots in e-commerce: Experts weigh in on tech advances, demand
Growing demand for rapid e-commerce order fulfillment is a major driver for the development and adoption for mobile robots. However, the market and the technologies that serve it are changing rapidly. The Robot Report asked the following four experts in mobile robotics about their observations (their responses have been edited for length): Tom Galluzzo, founder…
IAM Robotics raises $20M for Swift logistics robot
Pittsburgh startup IAM Robotics raised $20 million to expand the deployment of its Swift mobile picking robot. The round was led by KCK Ltd, a family-owned investment firm with teams in New York and San Francisco. IAM Robotics was founded in 2012 by Tom Galluzzo and Vladimir Altman, who worked at Carnegie Mellon University’s National…