If you need to stop before emptying the bin, you can use a slide valve – a flat piece of material in a box that slides in ... lock can be a simple feeder. A conveyor feeder is a belt at the ...

Masaba Inc., a Vermillion, South Dakota-based manufacturer of bulk material handling solutions for the aggregate, mining, ...

Five hundred FedEx team members will make the sorting facility go, including 85 new hires who joined the world overnight ...

Did you know that chocolate candy production and sorting LEGO bricks have something ... or bricks into individual ones moving down a conveyor belt. At least that’s what [Paco Garcia] found ...

Japan is looking to up its world-leading mass transit game with a “conveyor belt road” meant to be a 320-mile automated cargo ...

Back in July, the Japanese government outlined an intriguing idea to connect major cities with what sounded like a giant ...

Taking static images from cameras mounted above conveyors, OCR can read and understand labels, addresses, barcodes and ...

A large-scale material handling conveyor demo serves as the platform for an array of motion-control technologies.

As Election Day nears, hundreds of thousands of political ads have stuffed San Franciscans’ mailboxes. It makes for a busy ...

Peggy Johnson of Agility Robotics gives a demo of the company’s Digit—a robot that can, among other things, sort laundry.

Ready or not, the mega-warehouses are coming to town. The largest is a 3.2-million-square-foot, five-story “advanced ...

A forklift truck piles everything on the belt, ready for sorting ... Tim drops it on the conveyor belt, where I watch it leap down the line to join other cardboard boxes. My shopping receipt ...