Coronavirus Accelerates Automation Across Industry.
Automation is key for many industries, but now the coronavirus has made it a top priority. The need for social distancing could greatly accelerate the time line of drones and/or robots delivering product to homes. Automation was key for industries to lower costs. Now automation will be seen as a way to keep a company going if workers are not able to make it to work.
Warehouse and Fulfillment Automation
- A 360° tour of Ocado’s automated warehouse.
- Amazon employees struggle with new robot co-workers.
- Army of logistics robots sort out 200,000 packages a day
- Autonomous Logistics Robots in Warehouse Operations.
- Automating the Grocery Warehouse.
- E-Commerce Retailer Doubles Warehouse Capacity with Robotic Goods to Person System.
- How Flipkart is using automation to deliver your products on time.
- Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries.
- Meet Amazon’s New Robot Army Shipping Out Your Products.
- Ocado develops robotic hand to pick groceries for customers’ orders
- Robot Workers Moving Boxes – Replacing Humans?
- Shipping Warehouse Automation Robots.
- Stephen Hawking’s Presents Amazon Robotics.
- Superpick: The Autonomous Bin Picking, Sorting and Order Fulfillment Solution.
- The Gigantic Grocery Warehouses Built like Living Organisms.
- The Warehouse of the Future.
- Tour of Amazon Fulfillment Center.
Manufacturing Automation
- Automated Car Manufacturing Factory: Mercedes Benz.
- BMW Car Factory Robots – Fast Manufacturing.
- Future Manufacturing: Toyota Innovation, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence.
- HOW IT’S MADE TESLA GigaFactory.
- Inside The High-Tech TESLA Factory | Mind Blowing Facts.
- Manufacturing Robots Replace Workers.
- Manufacturing Process of Model S in Tesla Factory.
Last Mile and Delivery Drones
- 10 Passenger Drones and Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft.
- Amazon Delivery Drones – unmanned airship to launch its delivery drones.
- Blogs on self-driving cars, robots, and drones.
- Can delivery drones and robots make it in “the last mile”?
- Delivery Drones – DHL steals UPS thunder.
- Drones are growing into a $100 billion industry
- How Drones Could Change The Shipping Industry.
- Ocado Technology has successfully trialed driverless grocery deliveries.
- The Delivery Robot Changes the Logistics Landscape.
- Top 6 Self Driving (Autonomous) Delivery Robots.
- UPS tests residential drone delivery.
Supply Chain Automation
- Cognitive Supply Chain: Artificial Intelligence, Today and Tomorrow.
- Collection of Supply Chain Automation Blogs (AI, Blockchain, IoT).
- Enabling the Autonomous Supply Chain with IoT, AI and Blockchain.
- How I Automated a Supply Chain with Machine Learning, AWS, and Python.
- SCM Training Resources.
- Supply Chain Collaboration Resources on Social Media.
- Supply Chain Technology Trends.
Robots
- 8 NEW ROBOT Inventions That will Shock You.
- 10 Incredible Robots that actually exist.
- Amazing Robots Performing Difficult Jobs.
- BUILD THAT WALL – Bricklaying Robot Can Build Faster Than Humans.
- Robots And Artificial Intelligence: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk.
- The Construction Robots are Coming.
Self-Driving Cars
- Collection of Self Driving Car Research and Training.
- Introduction to Deep Learning Self-Driving Cars.
- Quotes and Training about Self-Driving Cars.
- Riding a Waymo self-driving taxi.
- Watch the Unveil of the Tesla Self-Driving Computer In Under 5 Minutes.
- Waymo self-driving cars are here.
- What is the Future of Self Driving Cars?
Trucking Automation
- Autonomous Self Driving Semi Trucks – multiple videos.
- How Self-Driving Trucks Really Work – Future Of Work.
- Tesla Semi Truck Will Make Billions.
- The Future of Trucking. Autonomous electric vehicles or something else.
- The Tesla Semi Will Be Tesla’s Most Disruptive Vehicle Yet.
Coronavirus and Automation
- 3D Printer Making Face Shields Protecting Hospital Workers From Coronavirus.
- Amazon Strike Amid Safety concerns Over Coronavirus.
- Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption.
- Discuss Coronavirus Impact on Supply Chain.
- Food Supply Chain Is Strong.
- How Coronavirus Could Slow Down Amazon Deliveries.
- Quotes about the Coronavirus.
- Supply Chain Workers Putting in Overtime for COVID-19
Retail Information: Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba.
- Amazon Deliveries Slow Due to Coronavirus.
- Amazon Delivers On One-Day Shipping.
- CEO advice from the leaders of Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Walmart…
- Collection of Amazon Supply Chain Blogs – learn from the best.
- How Returns Work – Amazon Reverse Logistics.
- Jeff Bezos on Amazon Business Strategy – How They Succeed and Thrive in Everything.
- Race for Same Day Delivery in Retail Supply Chain.
- Retail Blogs – Walmart, Amazon, Alibaba.
- Retail Supply Chain: Alibaba, Amazon, IKEA, Walmart.
- The changing face of retail: A conversation with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon.
- The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film)
- Top Retail Supply Chain Blogs: Alibaba, Amazon, IKEA, Walmart.
- Walmart Supply Chain Research.
- What happens after you place that order: Amazon Tour.
- What Retailers Like Amazon Do With Unsold Inventory
- World’s Largest Wine & Spirits Distribution Center Invests in Automation & Software.
Automation Quotes
- “Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative if there were more leisure more opportunity to engage in raising a family providing guidance to the young all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!” ~Jerry Brown
- “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” ~Bill Gates.
- “As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’” ~Marshall McLuhan
- “The coronavirus will accelerate the usage of robots and automation throughout the supply chain.” ~Dave Waters
- “In this era of digitalisation and smart technologies, the use of autonomous vehicles as a mode of transport is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’.” ~Professor Chen Tsuhan
- “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” ~ William Pollard.
- “The coronavirus will most likely be the spark that accelerates the acceptance and deployment of drones and robots delivering product to your door.” ~Dave Waters
