Category Archives: Robotics

Dairy Specialists LLC (Dairy Specialists) of Evans, Colo., is pleased to announce it has finalized an agreement to acquire the assets of Priority Robotics of Tillamook Inc. (Priority Robotics), effective July 1. Priority Robotics, which was founded in 2015, specializes in the distribution, installation and service of robotic dairy milking equipment and holds an exclusive territory dealership for Oregon and Washington with Lely North America, the worldwide leader in dairy robotics.

The acquisition of Priority Robotics, located in Tillamook, increases the market share of Dairy Specialists in robotics and broadens the companys geographical reach to better serve the increasingly technological dairy industry. Priority Robotics currently employs six individuals in the Tillamook region, all of whom will remain on staff and continue serving customers under the Priority Robotics of Tillamook Inc. name.

It is an exciting time in the industry, and the acquisition of Priority Robotics fits perfectly into our strategic business model. We are cutting edge when it comes to technology, so adding the talent and resources of Priority Robotics allows us to gain more leverage in the industry, said Brian Stork, chief operations officer at Dairy Specialists.

Kurt Mizee, the founder and owner of Priority Robotics, will serve as an independent consultant to Dairy Specialists. He will assist with integrating the two companies and help transition customers and staff onto the Dairy Specialists platform. He will also continue to own and serve as vice president of Tilla-Bay Farms, Inc., which was the first dairy in the Western United States to install a robotic dairy milking system in 2011.

I feel strongly that Dairy Specialists values and leadership align with the vision and mission of Priority Robotics, said Mizee. This sale provides a greater array of resources to better position the business into the future.

Dairy Specialists LLC, a subsidiary of Ag Property Solutions (www.agpropertysolutions.com) is one of the largest and most innovative commercial dairy service and equipment dealerships in the country. The company supplies commercial dairy farms with innovative parlor designs, new construction, remodels, robotic milkers, dairy waste management and 24/7 tech services. Additionally, the company offers state-of-the-art dairy equipment, parts, and supplies thanks to strategic partnerships with a myriad of the worlds best manufacturers and suppliers. For more information, visit http://www.dairyspecialists.com/.

Priority Robotics of Tillamook Inc. is a dairy robotics dealership established in 2015, by farmers for farmers. The company proudly sells equipment made by Lely of North America. With a business model based on reliability, consistency and efficiency, Priority Robotics is a trusted supplier, contributing to the success of their customers. Along with Lely, Priority Robotics takes customers to the next level in dairy automation.

View original post here:

Dairy Specialists LLC announces acquisition of Priority Robotics of Tillamook Inc. - Tillamook Headlight-Herald

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Automotive Robotics Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 - 2026)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The automotive robotics market iwas valued at USD 9 billion in 2020 and is anticipated to reach USD 16 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of over 10% during the forecast period (2021 - 2026).

Companies Mentioned

Key Market Trends

Technological innovations are driving the market growth

The automotive manufacturing segment has been taking rapid steps in the industrial automation domain emerging as a role model for the other industries by showcasing how automation should be utilized to scale up the value chain and achieve zero-defects manufacturing. The automotive industry has been an early adopter of robotics for applications, like welding, painting, glue dispensing, etc. However, there are plenty of robotic applications available to choose from within the industry.

Now, the automotive industry is shifting its focus toward the new technology trends, like compact robot and controller, higher communication speed, low spatter, and high-speed welding, human collaborative robot with industry 4.0.

Now with all application automobile company moving toward Internet of Things (IoT). Growth in the IoT concept and technological advances have boosted the use of automated technologies in various industries. The high penetration rate of smart devices and the use of wireless and cloud technologies will change the face and mode of operation of robots in the near future.

Asia-Pacific is Expected to Lead the Automotive Robotics Market

Asia-Pacific is the fastest developing region globally, with countries, like India, China, Taiwan, and South Korea evolving as the leaders in this region. Leading vendors, such as ABB and KUKA are instituting the region as their operation's base. Furthermore, government regulations and funds have empowered projects to improve the infrastructure. These aspects have made APAC the favored automotive manufacturing hub, which will drive the automotive robotics market.

Countries, such as China and India are the principal countries in Asia-Pacific in terms of development, and many industries, such as automotive, electronics, and aviation are opening their factories in these countries, which is generating the demand for the automotive robotics market, making Asia-Pacific an emerging region.

Major players in the region are adopting robotics and other advance manufacturing technology for their upcoming vehicles. For instance, in January 2021, Byton has signed a manufacturing deal with Foxconn, which will be providing advanced manufacturing technology, operation management expertise and supply chain resources to Byton. The two companies will work together for Byton's M-Byte electric SUV across all stages of its production line for introducing the SUV in Chinese market by 2022.

Morover, Byton Nanjing factory was built to industry 4.0 standards using leading manufacturing equipment and technology. The welding shop comprise of 335 welding robots by Kuka.

Key Topics Covered:

1 INTRODUCTION

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

4 MARKET DYNAMICS

4.1 Market Drivers

4.2 Market Restraints

4.3 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Forces Analysis

5 MARKET SEGMENTATION

5.1 By End-user Type

5.2 Component Type

5.3 By Product Type

5.5 Geography

6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

7 MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE TRENDS

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/23vrn1

Read more:

Insights on the Automotive Robotics Global Market to 2026 - Featuring ABB, Omron Adept Robotics and Honda Motor Among Others - ResearchAndMarkets.com...

Amazon partners with The LEGO Group to donate 200 robotics kits to local Parkland County area community groups to encourage STEM learning

SEATTLE, June 28, 2021 /CNW/ - (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon today announced plans to open its first Amazon robotics fulfillment center in Parkland County, Alberta creating more than 1,000 full- and part-time jobs starting at $16 an hour with comprehensive benefits and opportunities to work alongside Amazon Robotics in an industry-leading workplace. The new robotics fulfillment center, set to launch in 2022, is more than 600,000 square feet and will be used to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics, and toys.

To celebrate, Amazon will be donating more than 200 build-your-own robot kits to community groups in the Parkland County area with the goal of providing the resources necessary to introduce local youth to the world of robotics, unlock their imagination and explore a new challenge.

"We're excited to expand our operations and create great, safe careers of the future for talented Albertans starting on Day One," said Vibhore Arora, Regional Director, Amazon Canada. "Robotics and advanced technologies make our fulfillment centres safer and more collaborative, which is a big part of our mission to become Earth's Safest Place to Work."

"This is exciting news for Alberta. It is a vote of confidence in our economy, and will create over a thousand jobs for Albertans, right when we need them most. As we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, high-tech investments like this will continue to get people back to work as we diversify and look towards the future," said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. "Thank you to Amazon as well for the generosity you've shown to community groups in Parkland County with the donation of 200 robotics kits to support STEM learning."

"Amazon's vote of confidence in Alberta with their new robotics fulfillment centre shows the momentum our province has in the technology space while enhancing their customer experience and creating a thousand jobs," said Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation.

Story continues

"Council is tremendously excited to welcome Amazon to Parkland County," said Mayor Rod Shaigec. "The facility is a major investment and will create a significant number of jobs in the region."

"I'm excited for our young people, a top five global business leader focused on technology and commerce innovation is setting up operations across the street in Parkland County," said William Morin, Chief of the Enoch Cree Nation 135. "This means our young people have a real example of the future global economy they can be a part of."

Working with robots at AmazonOver the past two decades, Amazon has introduced many innovations and different elements of technology to help deliver products quickly and reliably to meet ever-growing customer needs and expectations - Amazon Robotics is one of these innovations.

Since the launch of Amazon Robotics at fulfillment centers in 2012, Amazon has created around 300,000 jobs worldwide. The smart systems support employees in their tasks, and the company continues to invest in new logistics centers, jobs and workplace safety measures.

As Alberta's first Amazon robotics facility, it is also an important investment in the province's growing technology sector and results in increased job growth and upskilling opportunities for Amazon employees.

"Collaborative jobs between robots and humans as full-fledged teammates have the potential to not just increase quality, make jobs safer and faster but to enable humans to be more creative, and innovative, and to cooperatively solve many of humanity's greatest challenges," said Dr. Alex Ramirez-Serrano, Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary.

Interested parties can learn more about Amazon Robotics and the growth opportunities it brings to Alberta at an upcoming webinar hosted by Inventures, one of Western Canada's most prominent tech startup conferences. Registration link coming soon.

Job creation, career growth and economic benefitAll operational employees receive hours of safety training and ongoing career coaching. Employees at the Parkland County facility will have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs like Career Choice, where the company pre-pays up to 95 per cent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields. Full-time employees will also receive competitive benefits including hourly wages starting at $16 in the province, medical, vision and dental coverage, a group RRSP plan, stock awards, and performance-based bonuses starting on day one.

Amazon employs more than 3,600 employees full- and part-time operations employees in the Prairie provinces and has invested more than $600M in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. To learn more about the economic benefits Amazon Canada is creating, read the company's Economic Report.

Engaging the Alberta community in the world of roboticsTo celebrate, Amazon and the LEGO Group will donate 200 robotics kits to local community groups in the Parkland County area where the new robotics fulfillment centre will be located. Over the next month, groups such as Boys and Girls Club, Alberta Parenting for the Future Association, Parkland Village School and Stoney Plain Public Library will receive a shipment of build-your-own kits and their program participants can begin building, coding, and learning about robotics. Amazon wants to inspire the local Parkland County community to engage in the world of robotics and gain access to a new and exciting pastime to mark the occasion.

For more information about current job openings in Alberta, visit http://www.amazondelivers.jobs.

About AmazonAmazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.

SOURCE Amazon Canada

Cision

View original content: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2021/28/c6508.html

View post:

Amazon Expands in Alberta with the Province's First Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center, Creates More Than 1,000 New Full- and Part-Time Jobs - Yahoo...

The Green Industrys labor crisis is driving an increased need for autonomous robotic solutions. Scythe Roboticsis answering that demand with the introduction of an all-electric, fully autonomous mower for commercial grade use.

This new technology also meets the call for more sustainable solutions which will empower the commercial landscape industry to further curtail the release of fossil fuel and noise emissions.

To date, commercial landscape contractors havent had a technology partner who enables them to keep up with demand and to operate emissions-free.We are that partner, said Jack Morrison, co-founder and CEO of Scythe, in a company press release.

Our autonomous mower gives them the ability to grow their business, while staying green. Its designed from the ground up to be an order of magnitude more reliable, more productive, and safer than any existing machine by incorporating state of the art autonomy with a rugged, all-electric design, Morrison added.

According to Fred Haskett, veteran landscape consultant with The Harvest Group and Scythe advisor, this will be a gamechanger for the industry.

Mowing sits at the center of a green industry labor crisis, he says. In full-service landscape management companies, mowing operations account for up to 40 percent of labor utilization.

Green Industry veteran Fred Haskett is an advisor for Scythe.Scythe Robotics

The Scythe autonomous mower features eight HDR cameras and a suite of other sensors which will enable it to operate safely and respond to the presence of humans, animals, and other potential obstacles in its path. The machine also captures valuable property and mower performance data which will help landscape contractors to improve workflow, identify upsell opportunities, schedule more efficiently, and manage labor costs.

Haskett says that the fact that this mower is not a retrofit, but rather built from the ground, up, as a commercial mower is a differentiator. Haskett was brought on as an advisor three years ago and says that the robotics company has been listening closely that entire time as to what the industry needs.

Scythe saw a need but came from outside of our industry, Haskett explains. I came on board to connect them to landscape professionals so that they could better understand their wants and needs. They were robotics experts but needed to better understand pattern cutting, quality of cut, deck size, how robust to build the deck, and many other industry specifics that would allow them to build a mower that met landscapers demands.

Haskett says that Scythe has connected with all of the members of his peer groupswhich are made up of landscaping companies from 2 to 50 million. And theyve sat with them and listened.

Its been a very detailed process, he says. But the end result is a mower that is going to fulfill industry needs.

Scythe also announced its $13.8M in Series A funding, led by Inspired Capital with participation from existing investors True Ventures, Zigg Capital, and Lemnos, brining the companys total funding to $18.6M. According to the company, the new investment will be used to grow their existing operations in Texas, Florida, and Colorado, expand with new customers, and accelerate development of future products that they expect to continue to impact efficiency and productivity, despite labor challenges.

More:

Scythe Robotics delivers robotic solution to the industry labor crisis - Total Landscape Care

In 2013, Google started a pioneering and ostentatious effort to manufacture robots. With time, its target has become self-effacing but with time the technology is also subtly more advanced. Since 2013, the internet company has depleted tens of millions of dollars in buying six robotics start-ups in Japan and in the United States. The project consisted of two teams that are majoring in machines that moved and looked like humans. Andy Rubin, the Vice President of engineering who was behind the effort of creating such projects named it Replicant in a nod to Googles great ambition. Also, the name was used in a science-fiction movie called Blade Runner.

However, with the passing time over the next few years, Google sold off the companies that have been acquired by it or shut them down. The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank bought the best-known project named Boston Dynamics from Google.

In recent years, with the advancement of modern technology, Google accumulated and reassessed its target on the mechanics of complex robots. For the last few years, Google has been remodeling its program focusing on robots that are much more manageable and simpler than human-shaped machines.

Vincent Vanhoucke, who previously helped Google in building Google Brain that researches artificial intelligence is now leading the new robotics at Google. This new effort is called robotics at Google. It includes many of the engineers and researchers who worked under Mr. Rubin. Its new model will be able to learn skills independently using machine learning without human intervention, like traversing in a warehouse that is filled with unexpected objects. The machines may not impressive or attractive as the earlier humanoid robots but this more advanced technology incorporated inside them gives them more perspective in the real world.

In the warehouse and on factory floors, Robots are already in use but they can only operate certain specific tasks only like turning screws or picking up objects. Taking the help of machine learning Google wants the machines with which it is working to learn on their own.

Share This ArticleDo the sharing thingy

About AuthorMore info about author

Follow this link:

Google Made a Come Back in The World of Robotics - Analytics Insight

The University of Washington Husky Robotics team runs its Hindsight rover through the paces at the 2021 Virtual University Rover Challenge. (UW Photo / Andy Freeberg)

The University of Washingtons Husky Robotics team was the top-performing U.S. team and third in the world in the 2021 University Rover Challenge earlier this month.

The competition, which involved 13 teams from five countries, consisted of teams designing and building Mars rovers that could perform a variety of tasks.

Normally staged in the Utah desert to mimic a Mars environment, the challenge was remote this year due to COVID-19, and the UW team used a university recreation field to put its Hindsight rover through its paces while following instructions from judges.

Teams competed in three missions: Equipment Servicing mission, Autonomous Navigation mission and Extreme Retrieval and Delivery mission. A perfect score of 100 in that final mission including successfully navigating a 30-degree incline and 3-foot drop helped Husky Robotics to its impressive overall finish.

It was an engineering challenge to get this one-meter drop to work, Dylan Klavins, chassis lead for Husky Robotics, said in a UW News story. We figured out the kinematics of the fall shortly before competition and had our dedicated team prepare this sort of spoiler-looking roll bar out of whatever we had on hand. When we drove off the ramp we had to brace for broken electronics and an imminent rebuild of the arm, yet our solution managed to easily break the fall.

Go here to read the rest:

University of Washingtons Husky Robotics is top U.S. team at Rover Challenge - GeekWire

Following this mornings announcement that Hyundai has closed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, another automotive company has posted some robotics news. The Toyota Research Institute announcement is decidedly less earthshaking than that big deal if anything, its more of a progress check on what the division has been working on.

Of course, incremental updates tend to be the name of the game when it comes to robotics of all sorts. This does, however, shed some interesting light on the work TRI has been doing in the home. Today the company announced some key advances to robotics it has designed to perform domestic tasks.

TRI roboticists were able to train robots to understand and operate in complicated situations that confuse most other robots, including recognizing and responding to transparent and reflective surfaces in a variety of circumstances, the Institute writes in a blog post.

Image Credits: Toyota Research Institute

With settings like kitchens, the robots come in contact with a variety of transparent and reflective surfaces a hurdle for traditional vision systems. Specifically in the kitchen, things like a transparent glass or reflective appliance can create an issue.

To overcome this, TRI roboticists developed a novel training method to perceive the 3D geometry of the scene while also detecting objects and surfaces, TRI Robotics VP Max Bajracharya said in a post describing the research. This combination enables researchers to use large amounts of synthetic data to train the system. Using synthetic data also alleviates the need for time-consuming, expensive or impractical data collection and labeling.

With an aging population in its native Japan, Toyota has made eldercare a key focus in its ongoing robotics research. So it makes a lot of sense that sort of robotics tasks form a core of much of its research in the category, as well as those elements that bleed into the work its doing on Woven City. And certainly the company gets credit for putting in some work here, before the orchestrated appearances weve seen of robotics offerings from companies like Samsung.

Image Credits: Toyota Research Institute

Its not only about keeping people in their homes longer and living independently, Bajracharya recently told me in an interview. Thats one aspect of it but in Japan, in 20-30 years, the number of people who are over 65 will roughly be the same as the number of people who are under 65. Thats going to have a really interesting socioeconomic impact, in terms of the workforce. Its probably going to be much older and we at Toyota are looking at how these people can keep doing their jobs, so they can get the fulfillment from doing their jobs or staying at home longer. We dont want to just replace the people. We really think about how we stay human-centered and amplify people.

The rest is here:

Toyota Research Institute shows how its robotics work with difficult surfaces in the home - TechCrunch

They are known as the J Birds, and they are flying high after winning first place in a prestigious national robotics competition. Ten members of the Hicksville High School Robotics team, earned top billing in the Business Model portion of the Altice USAs Future Innovator awards, and first runner up in the Community Impact portion. As a result of their placing, the team received a $2,500 grant from Altice USA Inc that will be used in next years competition fees.

Hicksville juniors, Jesse Kohli, Ekam Singh and Jason Jiang, were the main creators of an idea to invent a device similar to a VR (virtual reality)headset to monitor the physical activity levels of senior citizens.

Instead of an in-person competition this year, our team was presented with an innovation challenge that would benefit the community, said Kohli. We came up with this idea to create a VR communication platform, which we named Aureum, that would allow teenagers and senior citizens to stay fit.

He said the idea was that teenagers who were looking to get fit, would engage in activities such as hiking, running and biking. While they were doing this, they would be fitted with 360 high-res cameras, so senior citizens could participate with them in the activity. The seniors could follow along with teens during their exercise routines virtually, by wearing a specialized VR headset.

Its similar to FaceTime or Google Zoom, but with this specialized VR headset, said Kohli. Seniors who are still able to move could sit on an elliptical machine for example and feel like they were partaking with the teen in the activity and people who are immobile would still be able to talk with them through the audio device.

Kohli said that throughout the pandemic, team members spent time at senior centers on Long Island, to help the residents stave off feelings of isolation and loneliness.

Before this competition began, from February to April, we had sent out surveys to senior centers to find out ideas theyd be interested in and they were really intrigued with the VR headset. That kind of prompted us to work on this idea.

As part of the competition, they showed concepts of their model to the panel of judges, and created videos of how the idea would work. They also created a mock-up website online, called Aureum, as a way for the teenagers and seniors to connect with one another.

Through this mock-up website, teens who were looking to get fit would choose an activity and theyd be able link up with a senior through a list of senior centers who had listed their preferences, said Kohli.

Catherine Temps, coach of the J Birds Robotics team, said she was very proud of her teams accomplishments in a tumultuous year.

For us it was really about just helping others, that was our number one priority since we first started, said Temps.

Read the rest here:

Hicksville High School Robotics team places first in national competition - The Mid Island Times

LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- inVia Robotics, the provider of the next generation of warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce, and Rufus Labs, makers of intelligent wearable warehouse technology and workforce analytics software,today announced a strategic partnership to increase intelligence and productivity in warehouses through their subscription offerings. The collaboration is directly aimed at addressing warehouse labor shortages that the industry currently faces, allowing warehouse employees to work more efficiently and supercharging workforce productivity.

The combination of these two technologies ensures a continuous flow of orders through the warehouse that increases picking rates with existing labor. inVia Picker robots autonomously retrieve ordered items and bring them to a stationary picker. That worker is directed by inVia PickMate software running on Rufus' android wearables & tablets to scan the items, place them in an order bin, and then scan the bin. This cycle repeats and is continuously improved with intelligence from inVia Logic and Rufus Labs WorkHero software to create the most efficient movement of goods and people throughout the warehouse to increase productivity.

As e-commerce demand grows, inVia and Rufus Labs help warehouses accelerate digitization without requiring large capital expenditures.The two companies together offer an approach that includes software to optimize the relationship between inventory, people, and robots in the warehouse, as well as autonomous mobile robots, and wearable devices. Both inVia and Rufus systems integrate with most l warehouse management and enterprise resource planning systems. Additionally, the inVia Connect translation tool is built into inVia's AI software and seamlessly matches data fields across systems, simplifying a costly and complicated systems integration process that traditionally took months to complete.

inVia's unique Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model allows customers to pay only for the services they use, keeping investment targeted and delivering faster ROI. The system includes inVia Logic AI-driven software and inVia Picker robots. The system optimizes inventory placement, directs people or robots on the most efficient paths, and orchestrates workflows to ensure idle time is minimized.

"inVia Logic alone doubles worker's productivity and paves the way to later quadruple productivity once inVia Picker robots are deployed. With the added efficiencies introduced with Rufus Labs' wearable technology, we expect productivity to reach new highs in our shared customers' facilities," said Lior Elazary, chief executive officer and co-founder of inVia Robotics.

Rufus Labs' WorkHero is a complete Productivity-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that includes workforce analytics software, rugged wearable technology, and superhuman support. Wearable computers and barcode scanners offer real-time scanning metrics, scan and non-scan labor task management, and workforce data to continually improve warehouse operations. The wearable barcode scanner is modular, allowing warehouse workers to choose their ergonomic preference by sliding the scanning module into a ring, glove, or palm scanner attachment. Additionally, the Rufus RADD Tab (Android tablet) provides operators in material handling vehicles, or warehouse carts with hands-free access to supply chain applications they need to complete tasks faster and more accurately.

"Optimizing humans and robots in the warehouse is key to future sustainability, increased productivity, and ensuring a safe environment for workers. Rufus WorkHero already cuts pick time in half and provides added safety features to pickers. Our partnership with inVia will continue to improve throughput for our mutual customers, and allow for future innovations between humans and machines," said chief executive officer and founder of Rufus Labs, Gabe Grifoni.

With the first joint deployment of inVia Logic AI-driven software, and Rufus WorkHero connected operator technology , Cargo Cove 3PL will see immediate benefit across warehouse configuration optimization, worker productivity, and visibility analytics. Cargo Cove expects to double productivity as a result of the joint integration. With options to scale and add services as needed through the subscription model, 3PLs can benefit from the consistent ability to quickly and efficiently automate in line with business growth.

About inVia RoboticsinVia Robotics is a Southern California robotics company founded in 2015 that provides the next generation of warehouse automation solutions. inVia is the developer of the first economical goods-to-person solution offered as "Robotics-as-a-Service". inVia is powering the future of warehouse productivity without disrupting the ecosystem of a business's operations. To learn more visit inviarobotics.com.

About Rufus LabsRufus Labsproduces intelligent wearable warehouse technology and workforce analytics software. The company's flagship productivity-as-a-service platform, Rufus WorkHero, combines Rufus Labs industrial wearables and cloud enterprise software to bring the most advanced productivity suite to the supply chain workforce. Rufus Labs is the only company to offer wearable tech and workforce analytics software on a subscription basis, ensuring that Rufus customers are equipped with the latest technology that increases warehouse productivity, safety, and accuracy, at no additional cost. Rufus Labs was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, CA. To learn more visitgetrufus.com.

SOURCE inVia Robotics and Rufus Labs

See more here:

inVia Robotics and Rufus Labs Partner to Drive Warehouse Automation via Wearables and Robots - PRNewswire

Get up close and personal with science by getting hands-on! From ant farms to robotics to CO2-powered rockets, here are five kits with dozens of experiments and activities that will spark your child's curiosity about science. And they are on sale for Amazon's Prime day.

Bill Nye's VR Science Kit | $69.99 $47.99 at Amazon

How do crystals form, and what makes slime so gooey? Find out by joining science superstar Bill Nye in his virtual laboratory and explore dozens of experiments that use virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and hands-on activities to investigate science.

The kit includes VR goggles (compatible with all smartphones with access to the Google Play store and the Apple iOS app store), a 50-piece lab kit and an 80-page booklet for projects that will teach basic concepts in physics and chemistry. Suitable for ages 8 to 12 years. For Prime Day, the Bill Nye kit is 31% off.View Deal

National Geographic Mega Science Series Stunning Science Chemistry Set | $34.99 $24.49 at Amazon

Watch your child's fascination with chemistry erupt, as they delve into this kit's fizzy, frothy, bubbly experiments. With 45 different experiments to explore, children and older fans of hands-on science can use chemical reactions to launch a rocket, craft an underwater volcano, and start a geyser's eruption, all while learning about the chemistry that makes those activities possible and how they relate to scientific processes in the real world.

Easy-to-follow instructions make this kit suitable for ages 8 years and up. For Prime Day, this chemistry set is 30% off.View Deal

Be Amazing! Toys Big Bag of Backyard Science | $29.99 $17.99 at Amazon

Science is all around us, and this kit will give young explorers tools for discovering the amazing science of the natural world in their own backyards or in nearby parks. Easy-to-perform experiments provide an introduction to plants, insects and other animals that we see every day, and the kit provides curious minds with tools to learn how seeds grow, build a terrarium, start an ant farm and more!

Suitable for kids age 8 years and up. For Prime Day, this backyard exploration kit is 40% off.View Deal

13-in-1 Solar Power Robots Creation Toy | $23.73 $18.98 at Amazon

Learn how solar energy powers robots with a kit for building 13 different robotic constructions. By combining and reassembling gears, plates, tires and shafts, youthful robotics enthusiasts can construct walking, rolling or swimming creations capable of moving on land or in water ... all powered by the energy of the sun.

Suitable for kids age 8 years and up. For Prime Day, this robot-building kit is 20% off.View Deal

Thames & Kosmos Optical Science| $34.95 $15.99 at Amazon

How do color, light and motion affect our sight and perception? View amazing optical illusions, learn about the physics of light and color, and explore the ways that our eyes and brains collaborate to help us perceive the world, in this kit with over 35 astonishing experiments accompanied by a 48-page manual.

Suitable for kids age 8 years and up. For Prime Day, this optical science kit kit is 54% off.View Deal

More Prime Day deals on science-y products:

Find dinosaurs around the world and get 18% Prime Day savings on an AR globe

Star Wars Baby Yoda Echo Dot is 35% off for Prime Day

Best Prime Day board game deals: great savings on strategy games

Originally published on Live Science.

View post:

Robots, slime and rockets: 5 science kits on sale for Prime Day - Livescience.com