Kindred has partnered with Hy-Tek Integrated Systems to integrate its SORT robotic systems with Hy-Tek’s material handling solutions to automate retail and e-commerce order fulfilment operations fully.
The partnership aims to expand Hy-Tek’s apparel customers’ distribution centre and warehouse automation capabilities, accelerating polybag pick and place processes to meet increasing consumer demand.
According to Hy-Tek, its Ecomplete e-commerce solution helps retailers improve existing e-commerce platforms or enter e-commerce for the first time. The company added the solution is a one-stop-shop for e-commerce components, taking sellers from click to ship and everything in between.
Hy-Tek also provides integrated conveyor systems, welded construction conveyor installation, engineered storage systems, receiving and shipping systems, robotic palletising cells and complete turnkey solutions for any material handling application.
“In this rapidly growing e-commerce fulfilment environment, Hy-Tek turned to Kindred and its SORT robotic system to solve challenges that our customers were facing,” said Donnie Johnson, president, Hy-Tek Integrated Systems.
“Kindred offered an affordable yet flexible solution to efficiently and effectively improve their e-commerce fulfilment operations. We are very excited to be able to add this as a solution to our service offerings.”
To meet the continued peaks in online orders since the Covid-19 outbreak, Kindred’s Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model is designed to change how robots are deployed. Hy-Tek’s retail and e-commerce customers pay for the SORT robots’ service, such as the number of items the robots pick, rather than making a major capital investment. Retailers can use the RaaS model to minimise large one-time capital investments and better manage costs.
Furthermore, Kindred’s SORT pick and place robots utilise CORE with AutoGrasp, a robotics AI platform that identifies items to pick, place and sort them into complete end-customer orders. Kindred’s CORE with AutoGrasp combines AI-powered machine vision, grasping and manipulation algorithms that handle a range of merchandise, including deformable items such as polybags.
Marin Tchakarov, CEO of Kindred, added: “Investing in robotic automation benefits both Hy-Tek and global retailers alike.
“By partnering with Hy-Tek to expand both parties’ order fulfilment capabilities, we further our contribution to the workforce of the future with unmatched, field-proven technology.”
