Locus Robotics

By 2022, the logistics specialist plans to implement up to 2,000 assisted picking robots globally

AI-powered logistics platform vendor to use funds to focus on innovation, geographical expansion, and scaling the team

Investors place big bets on young startups offering tech like robotics for DCs. For investors, it’s attractive because of e-commerce growth and the efficiency gains that can be realized by flexibly automating labor-thirsty tasks. For end-users, they offer innovative technologies that can bring clear gains with small investments.

Locus Robotics announces $150 million in Series E funding. The round builds on support from existing investors including Scale Venture Partners and Prologis Ventures, the venture capital arm of Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate.

Locus Robotics' robots now pick more than 10,000 units every 15 minutes, across sites of its global retail, industrial, healthcare, and 3PL customers

Locus Robotics, a market leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced the addition of a new international client CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading asset-light based supply chain management companies.

The companies said they will collaborate to facilitate the development of integration tools allowing for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and 3PL customers, as well as establish HighJump as a licensed retailer of Locus’s autonomous, multi-robot solution for warehouse fulfillment, too.

Locus and HighJump will work together to facilitate the development of integration tools that will allow for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and third-party logistics (3PL) customers.

Locus and RHR will give a preview of their multi-stage fulfillment solution at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum Conference 2019

Company now boasts more than 4,400 U.S. and international patents issued and pending based on organic innovation, and has recently made strategic investments in companies including Locus Robotics.

The exponentially growing demand for ecommerce, next-day shipping, special handling and a shrinking labor pool is putting significant pressure on fulfillment warehouses to deliver orders faster and more efficiently. To meet this challenge, 3PLs and retailers need to think outside of the traditional cart. Learn why many are turning to automation and robotics as a must-have to meet theses challenge – now and in the future.

Innovation Award nominee now supports all aspects of fulfillment for retail, wholesale, and e-commerce channels.

Mobile collaborative robots have increased productivity and throughput at GEODIS’ Indianapolis e-fulfillment center.

New facility will employee 150 and utilize 200 mobile collaborative robots

3PL GEODIS is the latest example of how our industry is adopting robotics