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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.”