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AutoPallet Robotics

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We make robots that move boxes in warehouses

Summer 2024Founded 20246 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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We’re building the next generation of warehouse robotics. In the US today, retailers spend approximately $10B per year paying human laborers to pick up and move cardboard boxes in warehouses. Existing solutions for automating this are expensive and difficult to install, which is why manual operation is still so prevalent. Our solution is different. We make swarms of small mobile robots that install into existing warehouses to provide a low-cost and robust automation solution for case picking and mixed-SKU palletization. Our novel technology allows these robots to be installed and operate at significantly lower cost than existing solutions while being both flexible and robust.

Founders Β· 2

Nathan Yee
Nathan YeeFounder
πŸŽ“ Olin College

Nathan is the co-founder and COO of AutoPallet Robotics. At 18, he graduated as the valedictorian of College of Alameda and then studied Engineering with Computing at Olin College where he met Eric. He has since built ML models for MBARI, consulted for the DIU (xView2) and WashU (drug discovery), and built core software for lab automation robotics at Trilobio.

Eric Miller
Eric MillerFounder
πŸŽ“ Olin College

Eric is the co-founder and CEO of AutoPallet Robotics. After graduating from Olin College in 2019, he led the Subject Tracking and Autonomy Infrastructure teams at Skydio, rapidly growing from individual contributor to lead a team of 6 engineers. Eric is a multidisciplinary robotics engineer with significant experience building modern robotics stacks, from hardware and electronics through perception and high-level software.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Aug 2024
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AutoPallet Robotics uses swarms of hundreds of mobile robots to do case picking in existing warehouses.

AutoPallet Robotics retrofits existing warehouses with swarms of hundreds of small mobile robots to automate case picking, targeting retailers, grocery, and 3PL distribution centers. It claims rapid ROI (less than 12 months) by using current infrastructure, enabling tens of thousands of cases per shift with a decentralized swarm and an AI-powered pallet-building algorithm.

Formerly β€œAnteatr Robotics”

IndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsHard TechMachine LearningWarehouse Management TechSwarm RoboticsAutomation

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