RightHand Robotics

Somerville,  MA 
United States
http://www.righthandrobotics.com/

• Booth: 945

RightHand Robotics builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform, providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. The software-driven, hardware-enabled modular solution is capable of adapting to any picking situation bringing reliability to order fulfillment in growing industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and more. RightHand Robotics was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. The company is based in the U.S. near Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Nürnberg, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.righthandrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn.

 Press Releases

• RightHand Robotics Partners with PALTAC CORPORATION to Further Automate Operations (Dec 09, 2021)

  Agreement will lead to first RightPick deployments in the Japanese market.

  BOSTON, MA – March 19, 2019 – RightHand Robotics (RHR), a leader in providing integrated robotic piece-picking solutions, has partnered with PALTAC CORPORATION, Japan’s largest wholesaler of consumer packaged goods. The collaboration will introduce RightHand’s newest piece-picking solution to the Japanese market, with multiple workstations to be installed in PALTAC’s newest facility, RDC Saitama, opening later in 2019 in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

  Japan represents a huge and growing market for automation as the world’s second-largest retail sector, with annual sales exceeding $1.3 trillion. As the country’s leading wholesaler of cosmetics, daily necessities, and general pharmaceutical products, PALTAC sought a robotic piece-picking solution to further automate operations by picking and placing items of varying size, weight, and shape. The PALTAC leadership team chose to implement RightPick, an intelligent and integrated solution that can reliably pick and place a range of items, including never-before-seen objects, at a high rate.

  “Our RDC Saitama facility will stock over 20,000 SKUs every year,” said Masakazu Mikita, General Manager of Research and Development at PALTAC CORPORATION. “In order to handle such a large number of different and densely packed items, we needed a piece-picking solution that combined advanced gripping systems with continuous machine learning and unerring reliability. RightPick met all of our high-level requirements; we’re confident in the system’s ability to successfully pick a wide variety of items without prior knowledge or programming.”

  Driven by the rapid shift to online shopping and the growing demands of e-commerce order fulfillment, RightHand’s RightPick platform addresses these challenges with integrated AI software and gripping hardware that can handle the repetitive task of picking and placing individual items within various customer workflows.

  “We are thrilled to be working with PALTAC and to introduce our solution to the Japanese market,” said Leif Jentoft, co-founder of RightHand Robotics. “As PALTAC continues to grow and expand operations, RightPick will be a valuable contributor to their business strategy. We’re very excited for the opportunity to implement our latest technology in their new facility.”

  In December 2018, RightHand Robotics raised $23 million in a Series B funding round. The company is rapidly expanding its business and technical teams and broadening its suite of products and applications in support of a growing worldwide customer base.

  About RightHand Robotics

  RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing robotic piece-picking solutions that improve performance and efficiency in e-commerce order fulfillment and intralogistics. Its RightPick product platform is a software-driven, hardware-enabled solution that handles the core task of

  picking and placing individual items as part of a wide range of workflows and processes. With RightPick, businesses can reduce the cost of order fulfillment in electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and many other industries. RHR was founded in 2014 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real world problems. The company is based in Somerville, Mass., outside of Boston. For more information, please visit www.righthandrobotics.com/ or follow the company @RHRobotics.

  About PALTAC CORPORATION

  PALTAC CORPORATION engages in the wholesale of cosmetics, daily necessities, and general pharmaceutical products in Japan. The company also provides logistics and store solutions and exports its products to Southeast Asia and internationally. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan. PALTAC CORPORATION is a subsidiary of MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION. For more information, please visit http://www.paltac.co.jp.

  Press Contact:

  Eugene Hunt
  Trevi Communications for RightHand Robotics

  media@righthandrobotics.com

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• Okamura Partners with RightHand Robotics to Integrate Robotic Piece-Picking Solution (Dec 09, 2021)

  BOSTON, MA – February 4, 2020 – Okamura Corporation, Japan’s leading provider of high quality products and services for offices, education, commercial facilities and distribution centers, and RightHand Robotics (RHR), a leader in providing autonomous robotic picking solutions, announced a partnership to further automate warehouse operations. RHR’s autonomous piece-picking solution, RightPick 2, will be integrated with Okamura’s logistics solutions, such as AutoStore, beginning in February 2020.

  RHR and Okamura’s solution will be exhibited for the first time in Japan at the Logis-Tech Tokyo 2020 Innovation Expo being held at Tokyo Big Sight on February 19-21, 2020 in booth 1A-37.

  With the demand for e-commerce and product assortment rapidly increasing, the need for piece-picking solutions has grown significantly. Additionally, labor shortages in the logistics industry, including securing employees for mundane tasks such as picking, has become a challenge for warehouse managers.

  Okamura’s material handling systems are designed to achieve safer, faster, easier and more precise operations. Its business is not only to streamline logistics, but also to research, develop and provide new material handling systems to meet the diverse needs of customers. With the integration of RightPick2, operator workloads and errors will decrease and warehouse efficiency and productivity will improve.

  RightPick2 handles the core task of picking and placing individual items as part of a wide range of warehouse workflows and processes. It works collaboratively with logistics facility employees and existing manual or automated systems, providing businesses with a vital productivity boost as part of a lean and highly efficient material handling process. The solution combines an intelligent gripper, advanced computer vision, control software and machine learning to provide reliable automation to customers.

  RightPick2 Features

  ● Model-free autonomous item picking

  There is no need to provide the robot with the dimensions, or pre-learn 3D models for each SKU. The robots share image intelligence based on experience. Even if RightPick sees an item for the first time, it will make its best effort and often succeed on the initial attempt.

  ● Advanced hardware modules

  The advanced system features the 5th-generation intelligent gripper with integrated sensing, the vision subsystem, robotic arm and processor. Together, these provide fast and gentle handling for tens of thousands of individual products, sufficient for the demands of the Japanese market.

  ● RightPick Management System

  The system provides fleet management and human-assisted exception handling capabilities, allowing warehouse operators to manage up to ten robots from a single location.

  ● Easily integrated

  RightPick 2 is easily integrated with any warehouse management system or warehouse control system via a straightforward API, RightPick-MCP.

  About RightHand Robotics

  RightHand Robotics (RHR) builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform, providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. The software-driven, hardware-enabled modular solution is capable of adapting to any picking situation bringing reliability to order fulfillment in growing industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and more. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. The company is based in the U.S. near Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Frankfurt, Germany. For more information, visit www.righthandrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn.

  About Okamura Corporation

  As a leader in the material handling market in Japan and one of the biggest distributors worldwide of AutoStore, Okamura seeks to streamline logistics by constantly developing and providing new distribution systems through real-life experimentation. Okamura offers total support, from material handling system proposals resulting in financial benefits through increased speed, accuracy and safety of logistics, to software development, equipment installation, operational support and after-sales service. For more information on Okamura, please visit www.okamura.jp.

  Contact details:

  Eugene Hunt
  Trevi Communications for RightHand Robotics

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• RightHand Robotics Introduces Next-Generation RightPickTM 3 Item-Handling Robot System at ProMatDX (Dec 09, 2021)

  BOSTON, MA – April 12, 2021 – RightHand Robotics, a leader in data-driven autonomous picking solutions for order fulfillment, debuts the RightPickTM 3 item-handling robot system, the company’s newest generation of the award-winning RightPick product suite. The announcement is made in conjunction with this year’s virtual material handling automation showcase, ProMatDX.

  The RightPick 3 system is the world’s first autonomous piece-picking solution designed from the ground up to be integrator-friendly with a modular, industrialized hardware design, well-defined software APIs and international compliance. The RightPick 3 system provides system integrators with industry-leading performance, reliability, and safety along with the flexibility and tools to jump start their offering of automated piece-picking with confidence and at scale.

  RightPick 3 picks faster and handles an even broader range of items than before, with sophisticated features such as dense packing and damage-free item handling. RightPick 3 is powered by next-generation RightPick AI software that continuously understands, plans, executes, and learns. It is supported by fleet management software that provides performance dashboards and item management tools that empower warehouse site teams to optimize throughput.

  “The RightPick 3 system achieves an unprecedented level of autonomy with flexibility to be integrated into a wide range of warehouse tasks reliably, despite the inherent variability of picking processes,” said Yaro Tenzer, co-founder and CEO at RightHand Robotics. “This is a significant milestone for integrators as they can offer their customers a robust automation solution with simple plug-and-play on the path towards lights-out order fulfillment at scale.”

  Specific RightPick 3 system features and capabilities include: the RightPick processor module, a dual GPU industrial computing platform that processes data more than six-times faster, and is designed for use even at elevated warehouse temperatures; a new Safety Controls Unit for easy integration of common warehouse safety components; an integrated kiosk with the RightPick console, a simple user interface; and an updated Fleet Management System, featuring the Rightpick Control Center for real-time, remote visibility and control. The overall solution is backed by RightCareTM service and support, with comprehensive programs designed for end customers and integrator partners to ensure 24/7 operations.

  As the most complete offering in the industry, the RightPick 3 system provides turnkey accountability for picking performance with predictable throughput and field-proven reliability for e-commerce order fulfillment needs. To learn more, RightHand Robotics will be demonstrating the new technology at the company’s virtual booth at ProMatDX from April 12-16.

  About RightHand Robotics

  RightHand Robotics (RHR) builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform, providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. RightPick, their robotic piece-picking solution, enables retailers to rise up to the new realities of online commerce. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. The company is based in Somerville, Mass., outside of Boston. For more information, visit www.righthandrobotics.com/ or follow the company @RHRobotics.

  Press Contact:

  Eugene Hunt
  Trevi Communications for RightHand Robotics

  media@righthandrobotics.com

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• RightHand Robotics Unveils its RightPickTM Center Europe (Dec 09, 2021)

  The company continues expanding its global presence with a center for collaboration and business development based in Nürnberg, Germany

  BOSTON – May 18, 2021 – RightHand Robotics, a leader in data-driven, autonomous robotic picking solutions for order fulfillment, is pleased to announce the opening of its RightPickTM Center Europe in Nürnberg, Germany. The new center will expand the company’s continued global presence in Europe and strengthen its business in a fast-paced, thriving market characterized by accelerating adoption of warehouse automation and the development of increasingly sophisticated supply chains.

  With a growing number of customers and partners based in Europe, the new RightPick Center will provide a collaborative space for meetings, system integrations, automation testing, and robot demos, similar to the first RightPick Center at the company’s headquarters near Boston. At the PickCenter, prospective customers will have the opportunity to experience first-hand the award-winning item-handling system in order to assess performance and suitability for their business needs. Additional services that will be offered at the center include initial item set evaluation, pre-service process and workflow audit, project scoping and management, and training.

  EMEA Senior Sales Manager Roderik ter Beek stated, “We’re very excited to open our new demo center in the heart of Europe. The RightPick Center will give our customers and partners an opportunity to get an up-close look at our piece-picking solutions and directly interact with our regional teams for further education. This will help them understand how they can benefit from integrating our technology in their operations.”

  “Over the past few years, we’ve gained a lot of traction in Europe, which has presented the need for a demo space to showcase our robotic systems,” added Larry Chin, Head of Sales at RightHand Robotics. “With this new investment, we plan to accelerate our growth in the region, and more broadly, meet the needs of our customers and partners and expand our pipeline of projects.”

  Most recently, RightHand Robotics launched the RightPickTM 3 item-handling robot system, which is the newest generation of its RightPick product suite. The company has also published a case study video showcasing German-based customer Apologistics GmbH, a leader of online pharma, using RightPick in a new facility in the Netherlands.

  The RightPick Center Europe is ready for demonstrations and already has a backlog of planned visits. To learn more and schedule a visit, please contact Roderik ter Beek at sales.eu@righthandrobotics.com.

  About RightHand Robotics

  RightHand Robotics builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform, providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. RightPick, their robotic piece-picking solution, enables retailers to rise up to the new realities of online commerce. RightHand Robotics was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. The company is based in Somerville, Mass., outside of Boston. For more information, visit www.righthandrobotics.com/ or follow the company @RHRobotics.

  Press Contact:

  Eugene Hunt
  Trevi Communications for RightHand Robotics

  media@righthandrobotics.com

  +1-978-750-0333 x.101