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Robotic handling, picking and placement in logistics facilities, including brownfield insertion without re-racking or aisle changes.
Destro came out of stealth with an $8 million seed for software that tells both robots and dock workers what to do at Yusen Logistics. So far the case rests on that one customer, whose three-robot cross-dock pilot is growing into a 26-robot deployment.
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Maven Robotics won a large consumer goods contract in 2024 with a drawing of a robot and a promise to run mixed pallets from the warehouse system to the truck. Its CEO says eight robots do that work now.
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Agility showed Digit 5's specifications on September 15 and expects general availability by the end of 2027. That leaves the barrier-free safety architecture two years to produce field data for buyers weighing a 284-pound biped.
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Internal documents reviewed by Business Insider describe growing Amazon's same-day network from about 85 facilities to more than 1,000 by 2031, a five-year build that Amazon says is preliminary and not finalized.
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Agility rebuilt Digit's legs, payload and safety architecture for customers who asked to run the robot without barriers between it and their staff. The OSHA field evaluation it was designed for has not happened yet.
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The company says its Digit 5 humanoid can work safely beside people, holds more than $300 million of multiyear orders, and does not expect general availability until the end of 2027. It plans to list at $2.5 billion.
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Maven Robotics launched with $100 million and a short list of operating numbers: eight robots, 99% uptime on 16-hour days, 30kg picks. The arithmetic in its own hour targets shows how big the fleet has to get.
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Internal documents put Canadian package growth above 40 percent by 2029 and record a March decision to source from China rather than the US, in the document's own words, to avoid tariffs.
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RoboScience's REX G1 trades demo-reel language for numbers a warehouse engineer can argue with. What it still does not publish is price, throughput, or any outside validation.
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