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Lucas Systems is more than a Voice Vendor; They are a Warehouse Optimization Solution

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Lucas began pivoting toward becoming an optimization company in 2017 when it introduced dynamic task prioritization and pick-path optimization. With dynamic prioritization, planners assign priority codes and work groupings that allow related tasks to be grouped. UPS orders become Group 2, and USPS becomes Group 3.

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Four Truths About DC Robots, Jobs, And Warehouse Execution

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A recent article by Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group described the varying levels of “smarts” that differentiate automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Tye Brady, Amazon Robotics’ chief technologist made a similar point about human-robot collaboration in a recent interview in Robotics Business Review.