(ATLANTA): Cypher Robotics right now unveiled a brand new commonplace for environment friendly and correct cycle counting
scanning for business at MODEX2024 – one of many sector’s main annual international conferences. The
firm additionally revealed partnerships with AI-driven automation leaders GreyOrange and expertise
firm Ericsson, plus a number one Canadian retailer.
Incubated by Canada’s InDro Robotics, Cypher calls its answer ‘The Way forward for Warehouse
Robotics’, and right here’s why: It combines each aerial and floor robotics expertise right into a single,
built-in package deal.
That answer is known as Captis – an autonomous floor car that may discover its approach round warehouses all by itself. It gained’t stumble upon individuals or objects, and requires no infrastructure adjustments.
When it’s time for cycle counting, it makes use of drone expertise hooked up to the bottom robotic with a tether –
used to energy the drone and for realtime knowledge switch. The drone ascends vertically and begins scanning merchandise (it’s code-agnostic) because the Captis base navigates its approach down even-narrow corridors.
Based mostly in Ottawa, Cypher Robotics has a specialised engineering group and state-of-the-art fabrication. Complete, real-world testing has been carried out over a number of months in partnership with a significant Canadian retailer that has greater than 300 areas throughout the nation.
The system can seize knowledge with 99.9 per cent accuracy autonomously for as much as 5 hours per mission. That knowledge is mechanically built-in with current Warehouse Administration System (WMS), WCS (Warehouse Management System) and WES (Warehouse Execution System) software program. Captis eliminates the prices related to guide cycle counts, improves stock accuracy, and ensures seamless timeline replenishment whereas avoiding each over- and under-stocking gadgets.
What’s extra, Captis can concurrently perform extremely detailed precision scans of infrastructure (extra on this sooner or later).
Sound technologically complicated? It’s. Nevertheless it’s additionally a breeze to function.
“Captis is totally a hands-off product,” says early investor Philip Reece, who has based or co-founded a number of profitable firms within the robotics, drone and R&D areas. These embrace InDro Robotics, the Canadian chief in floor and aerial robotics R&D, which has additionally invested in Cypher
Robotics.
“After we say that is ‘the way forward for warehouse robotics’, we imply it. It fully eliminates the uninteresting and repetitive process of scanning by hand, liberating up staff to do extra satisfying work. It additionally frees up or eliminates the necessity for tools like modified forklifts which have been beforehand required for the duty.”
Cypher has partnered with warehouse fulfilment consultants GreyOrange and international telco innovator Ericsson.
“The Captis autonomous cycle counting answer is powered by GreyOrange’s GreyMatter, our success orchestration platform,” says Akash Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, GreyOrange. “We’re excited that Cypher Robotics has joined GreyOrange’s Licensed RangerTM Community (CRN) ecosystem.
Cypher’s Captis answer is a superb possibility for firms new to automation and robotics to start leveraging such tech since just one bot is required per warehouse on common.”
Manish Tiwari, Head of Personal Mobile Networks, Ericsson Enterprise Space Enterprise Wi-fi Resolution says: “Captis is an progressive answer that listens to the business’s wants and effectively solutions them. Being linked to Ericsson Personal 5G permits Captis to traverse warehouses whereas sustaining constant connectivity which ensures the protection of staff and gadgets. The low latency of the connection permits for rapid validation of information and the flexibility to re-capture it to take care of accuracy. The answer ensures that the group’s knowledge is protected all through the method.
Ericsson is trying ahead to continued collaboration and innovation with Cypher that can assist our prospects’ digitalization efforts.”
ABOUT: Cypher Robotics is a Canadian agency devoted to fixing provide chain and precision scanning points with robots. The corporate designs, assessments and validates its merchandise, along with constructing customized options for the provision chain/stock administration sectors.
Incubated by InDro Robotics, its Captis platform integrates the most effective of floor and aerial robotics, and is able to RFID and precision scanning.
