Material Handling

Rapid growth in e-commerce and fulfillment demands collaborative innovation. From bin picking to packaging and everything in between, cobots improve and streamline workflows by maintaining traceability and quality.

Fulfill manufacturing demands with cobot automation

Manufacturing and distribution demands are constantly growing. As materials and products move through warehouses, factory floors, and transportation, cobots provide an efficient solution in ensuring they are well-protected from damage.

Collaborative robots can handle repetitive material handling tasks across industries, which typically include loading and unloading parts, moving pieces from point A to B, stacking and destacking boxes, palletizing and depalletizing, and sorting. With precise and secure end-of-arm tools that can be deployed flexibly, cobots can securely grip items and automate repetitive movements through desired transport routes. This frees up the time and energy of human workers, who can then spend their time in more skilled roles.

Achieve higher throughput

Chicago-area Napco Brands is a private-label business that focuses on roasting and packing coffee beans. The business employed two palletizing robots by UR to automate the packaging line, picking up boxes as they arrived on a conveyor. A 15% increase in throughput was observed, and manual labor was freed up for more skilled tasks.

Streamline your operations

Streamline your material handling, packaging and palletizing, bin picking, labeling and kitting operations with collaborative robots. Relieve workers from repetitive work and heavy lifting by automating material handling tasks with lightweight collaborative robot arms. Automation helps you combat the rising costs of new product packaging and shortened product life cycles, and makes it easy to keep up with seasonal peaks despite labor shortages.

Innovative grippers

Cobots with innovative grippers, computer vision and machine-learning systems can pick up a wide range of objects even in unstructured environments such as a bins or totes. Easily integrated SKU scanning and the ability to pick up pouches or products of nearly any size or shape make e-commerce, fulfillment, warehousing, logistics and supply chain operations simpler, faster, and more efficient.

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Automate Your Material Handling with Universal Robots

Contact us for more information on how UR & The Knotts Company's collaborative material handling solutions can make your line more efficient, provide higher output, and permanently resolve production instability.