Ambi Robotics
Canvas Category Machinery : Industrial Robot : Piece Picking
Our team brings a wealth of experience, from top UC Berkeley researchers to Fortune 50 business leaders. Together, we are ambidextrous, and we make intelligent tech for tough, everyday problems. At Ambi Robotics, the work we do goes beyond building good tech. For us, it’s about creating tools for people to solve real-world problems.We’re here to solve the supply chain’s most complex problems, helping people handle more than ever before with the help of AI robotics.
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How Ambi Robotics rolls out improvements for peak season
Founded in 2018, Ambi Robotics is developing robots that scale e-commerce operations to meet demand. Its latest system, the AmbiSort B-Series, is a modular parcel induction and sorting system using artificial intelligence.
The sort-to-gaylord system can handle up to 1,200 sorts per hour. In addition, it can be used in various use cases, such as reverse logistics, zone skipping, and AI-vision quality control, making it one of the more configurable systems available in the market, said Ambi. Last year, the company won an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the system.
The company said these changes increased throughput to 500 sorts per hour and brought its sort accuracy to 99.6%. For context, Ambi Robotics was performing 410 sorts per hour during peak season in 2023, and 355 sorts per hour in 2022.
To determine which areas have the most room for improvement, Ambi combs through key performance indicators (KPIs) for each of its robots. The KPIs include uptime, sorting accuracy, and more. “We try to tie everything we do back to the customer impact and think about what is our biggest opportunity to affect operations now or in the near future,” said Mahler. “We typically are defining that with metrics.”
AmbiSort B-Series: Built for More
The pitch deck that landed Ambi Robotics $32 million
Sortation operations run the gambit in terms of automation, from manual processes in small warehouses to high-tech operations in vast buildings using fast-moving conveyor belts. Ambi’s solution is somewhere in between. It doesn’t require the labor of a manual operation, but it’s also a lighter lift in terms of installation than filling a building with conveyors.
Here’s the 15-page deck that helped Ambi Robotics soup up its ability to get robots in warehouses for this holiday shipping season.
Ambi Robotics Raises $32 Million for New Kind of Warehouse Robot
The Ambisort can plow through about 400 parcels per hour; humans do the same work at about one-third the pace and usually make more mistakes. Ambi Robotics, the company that developed the system and the accompanying machine-learning algorithms that allow the robot to recognize each parcel and select the right way to grasp it, has deployed 80 of these systems and plans to surpass 100 in the field next year. On Monday, Ambi is announcing that it raised $32 million from Tiger Global, Bow Capital and the UK’s Ahren Innovation Capital. Pitney Bowes, the postage meter maker turned e-commerce logistics firm with 55 warehouses around the country, is another investor in the round as well as a customer.
Sim2Real AI Helps Robots Think Outside The Box
At Ambi Robotics, our robotic systems learn how to handle diverse items using data generated by advanced simulation. We fine-tune our simulations to the performance of our sensors, our robots, and variations on the items our robots will handle. Our simulations run extremely fast, hundreds of times faster than robots training in the physical world, so we can train our robots overnight. This is what enables our solutions to work reliably from day one.