Logistics

If Amazon’s drone delivery service is to get off the ground, it’ll need some major infrastructure upgrades to support it. A new patent awarded to the retail giant could see drones being patched up and launched from mobile maintenance facilities carted around on the back of trains, trucks and ships.

​Nike's newly-expanded European Logistics Campus covers 150,000 sq m (1.6 million sq ft) and allows the sportswear behemoth to serve its online, retail and wholesale customers across 38 countries from a single location. It also makes the firm more efficient, more responsive and more sustainable.

From the bow to the bunker buster to the the hydrogen bomb, new technologies have changed the face of warfare, and 3D printing looks set to be just as revolutionary.

As internet commerce matures, consumers are expecting more immediate delivery of goods, but the packing warehouses need to keep up. To help speed up shipping, Fetch Robotics has unveiled Fetch and Freight; a robotic tag team that takes over the boring task of collecting and delivering stock.

In a bid to help make things run a little more smoothly for Santa and his festive workforce, an architecture competition was recently held to make the big man a new logistics center.

Fortifications designed to go up quickly find a low-tech solution to coming down quickly.

Raytheon has demonstrated its second generation XOS 2 exoskeleton (think of it as wearable robot guided by a human brain) which is lighter, faster and stronger than the XOS 1, yet uses half the power.

A new software system couples cargo space utilization and trip planning, to optimize transshipment, order combination, loading sequence and route planning. A version which can be integrated into existing trip planning software is expected by Q4 2009.

February 20, 2009 Numerex and Savi have announced a technology partnership to co-develop what would be the first asset and shipment monitoring device that