We have over 20 Nimble robots today and plan to add more as we grow our fulfillment capabilities.” “They are bringing to market bleeding-edge technology and solving extremely hard problems in a market that is struggling to find labor. “With logistics and fulfillment experience at Amazon, iHerb and other retail companies, I've worked with a lot of technology teams, and the Nimble team is the most impressive robotics team I've ever worked with,” said Jonathan Styles, director of continuous improvement-lean at iHerb. To date, we have 100% customer retention and 100% repeat customers.” We let the robots speak for, and sell, themselves. “I think this is a testament to the high demand for what we’re building and to our product and how well it works. “We haven’t done any marketing and surprisingly we don’t have any dedicated sales reps, yet we’ve deployed a large number of robots,” said Kalouche. Nimble said it is working with many of the world's largest and best-known brands including Best Buy, Victoria’s Secret, Puma, NFI/CalCartage, and Weee! It added that its robots are picking in warehouse applications developed by systems integrators such as AutoStore, OPEX, Bastian, Swisslog, TGW, and Kuecker Pulse Integration (KPI). Source: Business Wire Big brands turn to picking robots Nimble Robotics supports e-commerce order fulfillment. Just like with self-driving cars, more data means higher capability and reliability which further drives customer retention and happiness.” “More robots deployed means more proprietary data being collected. “To my knowledge, we’ve now deployed the world’s largest fleet of e-commerce ASRS picking robots,” he stated. This has been a significant competitive advantage allowing us to quickly scale.” “When I say, ‘One day, $0, zero code changes,’ it sounds too good to be true, but our customers will vouch for us. “A full production integration can all be done in one day using Nimble’s AI Integration tool,” said Kalouche. The AI interprets the already existing human operator interfaces to determine what items to pick and where to pack them.” Our AI-based integration requires no changes to the warehouse software whatsoever. “Our technology has been proven to be reliable to 99.9% accuracy in production, but what’s often the most impressive and exciting product feature, in the eyes of our customers, is the way in which we seamlessly integrate our robots,” he added. “Our AI learns what grippers work best on different objects and automatically switches its gripper to properly pick, pack, and handle each object.” “Our robots use a variety of different grippers and supervised autonomy to reliably handle nearly any object or product that fits into a bin,” said Kalouche. The company said its robots have picked more than 15 million objects across 500,000 unique products, ranging from cosmetics and consumer electronics to apparel, from daily essentials to holiday gift favorites. It added that it expects existing and new contracts to grow the fleet with over 200 more robots in 2022. Nimble said it has deployed fleets of robots within warehouse environments across the U.S. Nimble touts flexibility, ease of integration Nimble said its offering uniquely solves these two challenges. Integration efforts frequently take up to a year, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and require thousands of software changes to the warehouse management system ( WMS). In addition, integration of technology into warehouse ecosystems is a notoriously painful process, Nimble said. Having robots that can reliably handle all of this variability has been considered by many to be impossible, said Nimble. Each of those products are different sizes, shapes, weights, textures, stiffnesses, and fragility. E-commerce fulfillment centers hold millions of different products, said the company. Over the past few years, said Nimble, two challenges have stifled the adoption of pick-and-pack robots: reliability and technology integration challenges. Our robots are being used to augment the human workforce to help fill that void.” “These opposing trends are creating historic labor shortages and a growing labor supply void. “ E-commerce continues to grow rapidly, but the available warehouse labor force is actually declining,” said Simon Kalouche, founder and CEO of Nimble Robotics. The San Francisco-based startup claimed that its robots use artificial intelligence to “pick, pack, and fulfill online orders to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand e-commerce fulfillment.” this week said that its robots have picked and packed hundreds of thousands of customer orders on a daily basis.
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