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How Ambi Robotics rolls out improvements for peak season
- Ambi Robotics has improved its robots ahead of this year's peak season by using AI to increase sort accuracy and throughput, while also rolling out control software for robot arms and gantries that boosts productivity, according to Jeff Mahler, the company's CTO. The firm is also interested in the potential of generative AI, which might be used to help machines interpret product labels when only part of a barcode is visible. Ambi Robotics' systems can shift from reactive to proactive operation to cater for spikes in e-commerce growth and handle sorting throughput of up to 1,200 sorts per hour.
- During the 2023 peak season, Ambi Robotics’ robots sorted 7.4 million packages at 410 sorts per hour. This year, they can sort up to 500 packages per hour. | Source: Ambi Robotics
- The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the busiest time of year by far for logistics providers, and this year, it’s even shorter than most peak seasons. With Thanksgiving falling just a week later than usual, automation providers such as Ambi Robotics Inc. need to ramp up operations to help customers ensure packages are delivered before the holiday.
- Founded in 2018, Ambi Robotics is developing robots that scale e-commerce operations to meet demand. Its latest system, the AmbiSort B-Series, is a modular parcel induction and sorting system using artificial intelligence.
- Ambi tracks KPIs for each robot to determine areas that can be improved to make operations more efficient. Key performance indicators include sorting accuracy and uptime.
- To improve its robots, Ambi has continually improved its AI models, rolling out upgraded versions every month. It is also using generative AI, which it sees as a major opportunity for the robotics industry by 2025.
- Improvements to Ambi's robots, such as improvements to gripper technology, are made without any hardware changes. The company wants improvements to be rolled out to customers quickly and using the hardware they already have.
- Ambi's interest in innovation goes beyond the hardware of its robots, with a focus on improving IT infrastructure that supports operations and technology and creating better notification systems for when something goes wrong.
- In 2023, Ambi robots sorted 7.4 million packages using AI. The company is interested in the potential of generative AI to read product labels instead of barcodes when they are unreadable. AI models are upgraded monthly and improvements are made without hardware changes. The goal is to boost performance capacity by using the hardware they already have.
- Improvements to IT infrastructure and better notification systems for errors are also on Ambi's docket. The company plans to refine KPI targets to further improve operational efficiencies during peak season.}
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