Case study: Accerion Jupiter

Rokus Ottervanger September 18, 2019 0 Comments

The postal industry is subjected to significant fluctuations in workload. To scale up during busy times such as Christmas, temporary distribution centers are set up. Automation on such short term in such a highly dynamic environment is rarely worthwhile. RUVU were given the challenge to develop a robot software application for this use case. Key was to make it easy to demonstrate the possibilities of mobile robots for someone with minimum knowledge about Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs).

How to get your robot from A to B

Rokus Ottervanger August 8, 2019 0 Comments

In e-commerce, warehousing, and logistics, margins are shrinking. It’s harder and harder to come by affordable personnel for harvesting and processing greenhouse produce. The same holds for nurses in hospitals and personnel in the manufacturing industry. These developments push the demand for automation, including Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR). Many leading automation companies seem to be investing in the development of such solutions. But what should you think about when controlling such a system? How to get it from A to B?