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ArcBest Helps Bridge the Gap Between Robotics and Logistics Using NVIDIA Technology
ArcBest leverages NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor to advance its AI offerings, transform material-handling technology and shape the future of the supply chain FORT
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nArcBest leverages NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor to advance its AI offerings, transform material-handling technology and shape the future of the supply chain\n\n\n FORT SMITH, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nToday, ArcBest® (Nasdaq: ARCB), a leading logistics company, announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that uses the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor to improve safety and efficiency in material-handling processes across warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities.\n\n\nArcBest is bringing the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor platform for AMRs — cutting-edge machine vision technology — to its newly launched Vaux Smart Autonomy™ autonomous forklifts and reach trucks. The Isaac Perceptor modular perception stack brings 3D-surround perception, enabling a robot to better recognize objects, track human motion and make informed decisions that guide its path, for safer, more flexible and more efficient operations.\n\n\n“Innovation is critical to our long-term growth strategy and our customers’ success,” said Judy R. McReynolds, ArcBest chairman, president and CEO. “This collaboration with NVIDIA enhances our AI and technology capabilities, which helps us better serve our customers and drive the global supply chain forward.”\n\n\nContinuous improvements to support customer needs\n\n\nWith a constantly evolving economic environment, today’s supply chains are more complex than ever. Customers across industries need logistics providers to develop innovations to solve their most pressing challenges — now and in the future.\n\n\nWhile Vaux Smart Autonomy’s current perception technology can handle real-world environments, Isaac Perceptor’s capabilities include cost-effective, targeted obstacle perception in a user’s intended target environments. This enables more accurate movements in unpredictable conditions, better obstacle avoidance and an overall safer environment. It also improves localization in dynamic environments such as bulk stacking or cross-dock warehouse facilities by utilizing a vision-based 3D view of its surroundings.\n\n\n“Today’s material handling environment can be incredibly complex, with variability in the facility and products. Customers have expressed a need for greater efficiency and improved safety,” said Michael Newcity, chief innovation officer of ArcBest and president of ArcBest Technologies. “Our shift from 3D LiDAR sensors to v...