Floods can cause horrific harm to life and property. However, they can be mitigated or even avoided by the effective use of hydraulic structures such as dams, gates, and pumps. By pre-releasing water via these structures in advance of extreme weather events, water levels are sufficiently lowered to prevent floods. In this work, we propose FIDLAR, a Forecast Informed Deep Learning Architecture, achieving flood management in watersheds with hydraulic structures in an optimal manner by balancing out flood mitigation and unnecessary wastage of water via pre-releases. We perform experiments with FIDLAR using data from the South Florida Water Management District, which manages a coastal area that is highly prone to frequent storms and floods. Results show that FIDLAR performs better than the current state-of-the-art with several orders of magnitude speedup and with provably better pre-release schedules. The dramatic speedups make it possible for FIDLAR to be used for real-time flood management. The main contribution of this paper is the effective use of tools for model explainability, allowing us to understand the contribution of the various environmental factors towards its decisions.

E-commerce has changed the world and our solutions power winning warehouses of the future. We're revolutionizing warehouse automation with collaborative mobile robots driven by artificial intelligence and advanced cloud-based software. As a Senior Data Analyst on the 6RS QA Engineering Team, you will have the opportunity to work with the immense amount of data collected by our Chuck robots and end-to-end 6RS warehouse automation system. We are looking for independent, inquisitive and creative people who can use Analytics to derive value from this data and provide insights into the behavior of the robots. Why 6RS? Recognized by the Boston Globe as a Top Place to Work Founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2015, 6 River Systems is a leading collaborative mobile robotics fulfilment solution and part of global commerce company Shopify.

E-commerce changed the world and our solutions power winning warehouses of the future. We're revolutionizing warehouse automation with collaborative mobile robots driven by cloud-based software. This is a Co-Op opportunity for college students who are excited about leveraging robotics data to create business value. The role would be joining the TechOps Data Automation and Intelligence team where we focus on using big data and automation to support the reliability and implementation of customer sites as well as report on the health of these sites to key stakeholders in the business. This role will be exposed to a wide breadth of data techniques, including big data analytics, data engineering, data science, and some traditional software development to support data built tools.

Founded in 2015, 6 River Systems is based in Massachusetts, USA, and is owned by Shopify. Simon Jones, Head of UK and Ireland at 6 River Systems, speaks to Warehouse & Logistics News. What are your best-known products/solutions/services? Our best-known product is our collaborative picking robot Chuck. Chuck uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help warehouse associates work faster while making their jobs less physically demanding.

The push toward automation comes as businesses say they can't hire warehouse workers fast enough to meet surging online demand for everything from furniture to frozen food in pandemic-disrupted supply chains. The crunch is accelerating the adoption of robots and other technology in a sector that still largely relies on workers pulling carts. Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. "This is not about taking over your job, it's about taking care of those jobs we can't fill," said Kristi Montgomery, vice president of innovation, research and development for Kenco Logistics Services LLC, a third-party logistics provider based in Chattanooga, Tenn. Kenco is rolling out a fleet of self-driving robots from Locus Robotics Corp. to bridge a labor gap by helping workers fill online orders at the company's largest e-commerce site, in Jeffersonville, Ind.

What a month it was for robotics. Whether it was Boston Dynamics launching its Spot quadruped robot, Shopify acquiring 6 River Systems or Universal Robots launching its strongest cobot ever, the robotics stories didn't disappoint in September 2019. Here are the Top 10 most popular robotics stories on The Robot Report for September 2019. Subscribe to The Robot Report's free weekly newsletter to stay updated on the latest analysis and news from the robotics industry. Since being acquired by SoftBank, Boston Dynamics promised to bring its robots to market.

The deal reminds us of Amazon's 2012 purchase of Kiva Systems, which kick-started an arms race to automate supply chains, warehouses, and fulfillment centers. In fact, since the inception of the ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index, logistics and warehouse automation has been its best performing subsector, returning over 220%, including more than 30% so far in 2019. With 4 deals in the past 12 months, Shopify has been on a bona fide acquisition spree. That said, the 6 River acquisition is its first warehouse fulfillment-related deal, and may well be the most important acquisition to date in the company's quest to transition into a global retail operating system that spans global fulfillment and brick-and-mortar operations from a single e-commerce platform solution provider. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Massachusetts, 6 River Systems provides collaborative mobile robots to enhance warehouse fulfillment solutions.

Shopify today announced it is acquiring 6 River Systems, a startup focused on fulfillment automation for ecommerce and retail operations. The deal is valued at approximately $450 million -- 60% in cash and 40% in shares. At its Unite partner and developer conference in June, the company announced its Shopify Fulfillment Network, which uses machine learning to ensure timely deliveries and lower shipping costs. Shopify's fulfillment centers span California, Georgia, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The network, which is only available in early access, supports merchants that ship between 10 and 10,000 packages per day.

It was just last year that we announced our investment in 6 River Systems. Today, we're celebrating the news that Shopify is acquiring them for $450M. The team at Menlo is proud to have been involved in the 6RS journey and their mission to bring automation and robotics to every company's fulfillment process. It was a pleasure working with two great founders, Jerome Dubois and Rylan Hamilton. Their deep domain experience and operational rigor quickly made 6RS the market leader!

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. The latest version of the self-solving Rubik's Cube is adorable in how it tries to throw itself off of the table it's solving itself on: Not exactly an optimised solve, but we'll forgive it, because that just means we get to watch it for longer. And here's what it looks like if you're holding it: When you think of robotics, you likely think of something rigid, heavy, and built for a specific purpose.