Introducing the HOTPOD Dutch Online Grocery Startup Picnic has announced they will be testing a new last mile delivery method for online groceries. It is called The Hyperloop of Things, Picnic on Demand: HOTPOD. An App-Only Supermarket Picnic is an...
Have you seen Terminator? That movie in which robots become self aware and decide to attack the human race? Last week representatives of over 100 robotics and artificial intelligence companies wrote an open letter to the United Nations. They are trying to stop robots...
Conflicts, disasters and natural resources can no longer be considered national concerns, they have become global concerns. More than 21.3 million people - roughly the population of Australia - are refugees. Water scarcity and climate change have added to...
The Hyperloop is coming to Europe. At least, that is what Hyperloop One recently announced. The company released several potential trajectories for Europe. And one of them is in the Netherlands. According to Hyperloop One: The proposal by the home team of Hyperloop...
Who didn't fold paper airplanes as a kid? I sure did. Threw them out my bedroom window, until the neighbors complained about all the paper in their backyard... Is it a bird? Is it a drone? No, it's a... Otherlab has taken this childhood pastime and formed it into a...
Maybe it is me, but I can watch this for hours. Anything happening in buildings with high walls and little to no windows, grabs my attention. I love the intricate web of movements of people, machines and goods in a warehouse environment. Regular complex conveyor belt...
Please click the links in the tweets to read the full story. Drones and Flooding Drones are being used in many good ways in areas struck by hurricanes and other disasters. Drones can move around easily and freely and can be used for inspection, security, and of course...
You can read the full articles by clicking the link in the tweets. Robots in factories and warehouses GE and Caterpillar have joined forces by investing in Clearpath Robotics, a startup focused on bringing self-driving vehicles to the factory floor. This startup,...
You can read the full articles by clicking the link in the tweets. Rotterdam is on a Roll Rotterdam is my home town, and it is on a roll! According to the Wall Street Journal it's the coolest city in the Netherlands. And from a supply chain and logistics point of view...
No matter what the mode of transport is, somebody will always want to be the fastest. Naturally, this also goes for trucks. Maximum Truck Speeds Around the World Trucks are built for power and endurance and not for speed. And in most countries, they aren't allowed to...
Drones can be used for many things. In logistics they are being used (or at least tested) to make deliveries, for yard management, and in warehouses to solve inventory issues (for example). Regular readers of LogisticsMatter know that it is one of my favorite...
The past months there has been a lot of buzz about amazon turning into a logistics service provider, by in-sourcing increasingly more supply chain and logistics functions. It seems Google is looking into making moves into a similar direction. They have already...
I have said it before, and I will repeat it. I love Infographics. Good ones that are. Emerging Technologies Shaping the Future of Logistics The global logistics market is estimated to be worth about $4 trillion... The global transportation services market is the...
A robot delivering pizza, sure. You're probably wondering what science fiction movie I was watching where I saw that. Well, it was a movie clip, but it is absolute reality. Meet DRU DRU stands for Domino's Robotic Unit. And yes, that is Domino's Pizza. The Australian...
If you would ask somebody in 1996 what new concepts there would be in 2016 for delivering packages, I wonder if they would have said drones or driving robots. Delivery drones especially have been in the news a lot since last year. One of my favourites is the concept...
Just last month, Dutch logistics startup Sesam Solutions launched the Parcer: a safe way to receive packages and send them. When you are not there. Not there at all! Last week I sat down with Sesam Solutions' CEO Hans van Nikkelen Kuijper to talk about their...
Amazon has revealed a new Prime Air drone design on the Prime Air page, and they've let former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson reveal the new design in a short video, which shows actual footage of drone delivery. All steps of the process are followed. The item is...
I recently came across a marketing stunt by Pepsi called "Friend Finder, " which combines two of my biggest passions. Music and Logistics. I don't have to explain the second one. You are here. It is obvious. The first one I have not talked about much here yet, but...
The last time I wrote about a patent, it was one by Amazon, and it described what I call a Ship-to Person model. Currently, all shipments go to an address, which will be an obsolete process in the future. With logistics operations becoming more agile and flexible, it...
