Thursday, June 11, 2020

inVia Robotics Expands Into Asia

Westlake Village-based inVia Robotics, which develops warehouse automation robots, is in an expansion into Asia, with its first deployment in Osaka, Japan. According to inVia Robotics, it will supply its autonomous mobile robots to automate fulfillment operations in the primary distribution center of Kantsu, a provider of logistics and warehousing services to the e-commerce industry. Financial details of the deal were not announced. inVia said it will provide a fleet of 200 autonomous mobile robots, which will help automate the picking process at Kantsu's warehouse, overcoming limitations of manual picking. inVia Robotics--led by Lior Elazary--offers up its robots in a service-based model, monitoring the operations of its robots remotely at its own monitoring center, proactively replacing and repairing robots as they run into issues.