Where to find 6 River Systems on Thursday at Modex

12:45 PM – How Collaborative Robots Can Empower Employees and Drive Efficiency
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Hear from Fergal Glynn, VP of Marketing, about how your company can enhance productivity by balancing labor and technology. Learn how to:

• Improve operations by giving your team the right tools that result in greater order accuracy and optimized processes.
• Navigate the tightening labor market and limit seasonal onboarding.
• Redefine the employee experience.

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This year’s event will feature a powerhouse of speakers, including industry leaders from UPS, Target, The Home Depot, Johnson and Johnson, Schenker AG and more. There will be talks from 80 executives, more than 100 educational sessions and six keynote speeches.

Among the speaker lineup will be a very special guest of ours: Erik Caldwell, Chief Operating Officer at GXO Logistics. On Wednesday, June 6 at 2 p.m., Erik and our co-founder and co-CEO Jerome Dubois will host a session to talk about how robotics can transform your supply chain. Erik will be drawing on his real experience using our robots, and he’ll be providing key takeaways for anyone interested in warehouse robotics automation.

Jerome will also be speaking on another panel at 3 p.m. on Thursday, titled “Robot Wars: NextGen Supply Chain Automation.” This panel will also feature participation from Fetch Robotics, inVia Robotics and NextShift Robotics.

If you’re planning to attend this year’s summit, come visit us at Booth #6. Our team will be there to answer any questions you have about our robot Chuck. Or stop on by just to chit chat.

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We’re excited to sponsor and host the next meetup of the Boston Autonomous Vehicles group on Thursday, April 26, at our Waltham warehouse. Our co-founder and CTO Chris Cacioppo and Head of Robotics Dan Winkler will be talking about the challenges autonomous robots face in distribution centers, and how we’re solving them with our innovative warehouse robot Chuck. Chris will talk about robotics, computer vision, object detection and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The attendees will also get the chance to meet Chuck.

“Come learn how robots localize themselves using advanced Monte Carlo Localization,” Chris said. “We’ll provide relatable concepts everyone can understand, and then dive deeper into the algorithms.”

6 River Systems autonomous mobile robot Chuck.

Interested in robotics, curious about working at 6 River Systems or just want to meet Chuck? Come join us. (By the way, we’re hiring.)

Event details and agenda

• Who: 6 River Systems co-founder and CTO Chris Cacioppo and Head of Robotics Dan Winkler
• What: Talk titled “Autonomous Vehicles in Distribution Centers”
• When: Thursday, April 26 from 6-8:30 p.m.
• How to RSVP: Sign up through the Meetup page
• Where: 117 Beaver Street, Waltham, MA (GPS will not work well for the address, so please follow the directions here)

Note: We are investigating transportation options from the Cambridge area for those who have difficulty traveling to Waltham. Please specify in your RSVP whether you have a need for this.

Agenda

6 – 6:30 p.m.: Food, refreshments, and networking
6:30- 6:45 p.m.: Announcements and overview
6:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.: Talk: Using a planar LiDAR and particles filters for localization in unfavorable environments
7:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Demo: Meet Chuck, an autonomous bot that assists warehouse workers
8 – 8:30 p.m.: Networking and wrap-up

About the speakers

Chris previously led engineering at Mimio. He holds multiple patents across hardware, firmware, software and design. He is a University Scholar at the University of Connecticut and earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at MIT.

Prior to joining 6 River Systems, Dan was the chief technology officer at Mimio. He joined Mimio as one of its first software engineers, and was involved in all facets of the development process at the company, including product research, competitive reviews, user studies, software architecture, technical documentation, user experience and interface design, information technology and management.

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6 River Systems is the new way companies fulfill. Our founders were executives at Kiva Systems, a robotics company that Amazon bought for $775 million in 2012. Our team include Kiva and Amazon alums with decades of automation, software and operations experience. We’ve designed, built and deployed systems with 100,000+ robots in use. No other team in the world has our experience in designing large-scale mobile robotic solutions for warehouses.

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