Innovation Awards

Kindred INDUCT is a high-speed, robotic workcell that automates the induction process using artificial intelligence (AI) to become smarter, faster and more efficient over time. Built on Kindred’s proprietary CORE/AutoGrasp™ AI platform, INDUCT accurately picks, maneuvers, and places items onto a moving ...

Berkshire Grey and Locus Robotics have joined forces to revolutionize retail and eCommerce with their new Project GreyWolf solution! In the first innovative partnership of its kind, two leaders in robotic automation provide customers with a no-compromise end-to-end solution, enabling them to maximize ...

Infor Nexus Control Center is a supply chain control tower built upon Infor Nexus, a single instance, multi-tenant, multi-enterprise business network. Infor Nexus Control Center offers enhanced, real-time visualization of the end-to-end supply chain, predictive insights, intelligent decision support, ...

The Smart Flex Effector is a sensor-based compensation module with independent kinematics in six degrees of freedom that is the first of its kind. It increases precision in handling devices, and opens up new areas of application for robots and Cartesian systems. The Smart Flex Effector was designed to ...

The perfect direct-to-package printing solution, providing the flexibility to customize and print directly onto a wide range of materials with ink-receptive surfaces such as cardboard, postcards, envelopes, boxes, paper bags, wooden planks, or thicker objects like blister envelopes or folded boxes ready ...

The ML2 is uniquely designed to automate a variety of light and intermediate weight applications. This flexible solution optimizes both manufacturing and distribution processes, solving many of the challenges facing facilities today – labor availability, inventory tracking, operational visibility, peak ...

QuickBot is a revolutionary innovation in warehouse automation, as a plug-and-play quick deployment robotic case handler that is simple to install and can be operating in a customer’s warehouse within two weeks of an order. It is a versatile robot cell that can be easily connected to existing conveyors ...

Built on a foundation of breakthrough research and unlocking the science of how humans and animals walk, Digit is the first commercially available human-centric, multi-purpose robot. A robot designed to walk into a warehouse and get right to work without costly retrofitting. Digit is a safe and reliable ...

Reliable protection against product and brand counterfeiting as well as a new marketing tool! The innovative BrandSecureSystem solution is on the one hand a simple and cost-effective way to verify the authenticity of a product: Products marked with the special and forgery-proof Brand Secure Label are ...

KEYENCE recently released the DX Series – a PDA style mobile computer that boasts high scanning speeds, flexibility, and durability. Its overall performance solves the problems of increasingly complex warehousing and distribution applications and improves efficiency at various worksites. The DX Series ...

AutoStore™ is a global technology company that invented and continues to pioneer Cube Storage Automation: the densest storage solution in existence. The company provides Fortune 500 retailers cutting-edge technology that is sustainably designed and has revamped the outdated retail supply chain system, ...

Ricoh’s latest innovation integrates automation and sustainability, the two most significant requirements in the material handling industry nowadays. The Laser Rewritable Labeling System realizes labor cost optimization with improved operational efficiency by delivering a fully automated and groundbreaking ...

NexSys® AIR wireless chargers from EnerSys® charge battery-powered forklifts and AGVs without traditional charging connections. Using charging technology similar to mobile phones, NexSys® AIR wireless chargers provide managers operational resilience for both manual equipment and AGVs – reducing dependence ...

The A-MATE® Counter is the newest member of the growing A-MATE® product line offered by K. Hartwall. These mobile robots are designed with the highest level of quality and extreme robustness for industrial use. With the unbeatable compact design and cantilevered forks, the A-MATE® Counter offers maximum ...

A first in industrial thermal duplex, linerless printing. Toshiba's innovative solution combines two separate labels – such as shipping & packing lists – into a single, two-sided label. Toshiba's Duplex Linerless Thermal Printer (DL1024), which utilizes Premier Print & Services Group's Premier Linerless ...