Pitney Bowes and Ambi Robotics Sign $23 Million Deployment Expansion To Help Optimize Last-Mile Sorting Across US Hubs
March 09 2022 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), a global shipping and mailing company
that provides technology, logistics, and financial services and
Ambi Robotics, the leader in robotic sorting systems for supply
chain operations, today announced a $23 million deployment
expansion of AmbiSort systems in Pitney Bowes ecommerce hubs across
the US. The AI-powered robotics will help Pitney Bowes speed parcel
sortation to last-mile delivery providers, while improving
productivity, accuracy and worker safety as the company’s shipping
and ecommerce businesses surpass 50% of total revenue. Pitney Bowes
will make the investment in Robot as a Service (RaaS) fees over the
next four years.
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The expansion follows a successful deployment at the Pitney
Bowes Stockton, Calif. ecommerce hub, where Pitney Bowes used
AmbiSort systems to successfully sort parcels during the 2021 peak
holiday season, nearly doubling the throughput for parcel sortation
to local direct delivery units.
“As we continue to scale our Global Ecommerce business, Pitney
Bowes is working with some of the most innovative companies in the
industry to configure new solutions that improve our service
offerings and make B2C ecommerce logistics easier for our clients,”
said Gregg Zegras, EVP and President of Global Ecommerce at Pitney
Bowes. “The deployment of AmbiSort AI-powered systems is part of
our long-term plan to further enhance our technologically
efficient, employee and client-friendly ecommerce logistics
network.”
Ambi Robotics is powered by AmbiOS, the advanced AI operating
system that leverages simulation-to-reality (Sim2Real) technology.
AmbiSort solutions integrate effortlessly into existing operations
and operate on day one, creating flexible systems that can scale
with demand.
As parcel volume exceeds 131 billion annual parcels globally
with more than 37% year-over-year growth in the US alone, as
revealed in the latest Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index,
logistics and global delivery organizations continue to seek
automated solutions that can quickly scale to meet their unique
needs.
Previously, each package handler was tasked to pick, pack, and
place items via a manual vertical putwall. With AmbiSort, Pitney
Bowes robot operators work alongside 3-4 automated horizontal
putwalls with the same amount of mailsacks. This increases each
associate's productivity and output by up to 4 times manual
processes with greater sack density to the last mile.
“Every decision we make at Ambi Robotics centers around the
value we bring to our customers and how to uplift their
employees,'' said Jim Liefer, CEO of Ambi Robotics. “Our
partnership with Pitney Bowes is symbiotic – the company
courageously embraces innovation and technology. There is a reason
Pitney Bowes is a 100-year strong company.”
“At the heart of Ambi Robotics’ culture of creativity and
client-centricity is a core set of values that we share – we look
forward to continued collaboration and innovation through our
partnership,” said Zegras.
Improvements to AmbiSort since the initial Pitney Bowes
deployment include all-new robotic hardware components and advanced
AI software that increases throughput per square foot. Additional
outbound placement locations increase sorting capacity, and the
system’s horizontal putwall increases sack density to the
last-mile. A new handoff region between the highly-dexterous
piece-picking robot cell and the gantry system allows the robot to
singulate and grasp a parcel while simultaneously placing another
parcel in the appropriate last-mile mail-sack.
About Ambi Robotics
Ambi Robotics is an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics
company developing advanced solutions that scale e-commerce
operations to meet demand while empowering humans to work smarter.
The company’s industry-leading AI operating system, AmbiOS,
leverages advanced simulation-to-reality technology to operate
highly-dexterous robotic systems. Founded in 2018, the world's top
roboticists, AI researchers, and leading business professionals
work together to build the supply chain's most valued systems. The
company is located in Berkeley, Calif. For more information, please
visit www.ambirobotics.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global shipping and mailing company
that provides technology, logistics, and financial services to more
than 90 percent of the Fortune 500. Small business, retail,
enterprise, and government clients around the world rely on Pitney
Bowes to remove the complexity of sending mail and parcels. For the
latest news, corporate announcements and financial results visit
https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/newsroom.html. For additional
information visit Pitney Bowes at www.pitneybowes.com.
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Media: Brett Cody Pitney Bowes Inc. brett.cody@pb.com
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