Collaborative robots have stopped being a novelty on UK shop floors. Manufacturers use them for the repetitive, physically demanding or inconsistent jobs nobody wants to staff: machine tending, packing, sanding, … Read more
Robotic palletising can be a great solution to removing repetitive manual handling from the end of a production or packaging line. Choosing a palletising supplier for your project though isn’t … Read more
Find the Right Palletising Integrator for Your Project If you’ve decided palletising automation is the right move, the hardest part is often next: working out which of the UK’s dozens … Read more
Insights from Hexxabotics on scalability, storage density, and the future of modular AS/RS systems. Grid-based warehouse automation has been gaining serious traction, but most coverage treats it as a single … Read more
In a goods-to-person system, robots bring inventory to a stationary picker rather than the picker walking to it — and that single change is why manual pick rates of 60–80 … Read more
Both an AMR and an AGV will move goods around your warehouse without a human driver. That’s genuinely where the similarity ends. The technology underneath, the infrastructure required, the cost … Read more
You’ve reached the point where palletising automation looks like the right move. You’ve spoken to a couple of integrators, maybe had site visits or early proposals, and already the picture … Read more
The most common frustration we hear from manufacturers who’ve requested cobot palletising quotes is the range. One supplier comes in at £38,000. Another says £95,000. A third doesn’t give a … Read more
The assumption that robot palletising is for large manufacturers was reasonable a decade ago. The entry cost of a traditional industrial robot cell, even a modest one, put automation out … Read more
The basic idea behind a robotic palletising cell is actually quite simple, a robotic arm picks products off a conveyor and stacks them onto a pallet, layer by layer, until … Read more