Contoro provides a platform for managing and optimizing supply chain logistics and procurement processes. The system integrates disparate data sources to offer real-time visibility into inventory, transportation, and vendor performance. This enables businesses to streamline operations and reduce overall operational expenditure.
Funding
$8.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Unloading floor-loaded boxes from trucks and shipping containers is a labor-intensive, expensive, and potentially unsafe process, exacerbated by labor shortages. The variability in container contents and warehouse environments makes traditional AI automation solutions unreliable.
Solution
Contoro provides AI-powered robotic solutions for autonomous trailer and container unloading, addressing the challenges of labor shortages and safety concerns in the supply chain. Their human-in-the-loop (HITL) platform combines AI with remote teleoperation, enabling robots to handle edge cases and ensuring reliable operation from day one. The system uses advanced sensors and AI algorithms to perceive the container environment, plan collision-free paths, and grasp boxes of varying sizes and weights. This approach minimizes on-site human intervention and robot downtime, while continuously learning and improving AI model reliability through real-world data collection.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes organizations in the logistics and warehousing sectors seeking to automate trailer and container unloading processes to reduce labor costs, improve safety, and increase operational efficiency.
Features
- Advanced sensor fusion for industry-leading autonomy in perception and motion planning
- Patented DuoGrasp gripper for stable, two-sided box grasping, accommodating heavy and multi-dimensional boxes
- Mobile base with built-in connectivity and conveyor belt for autonomous navigation inside containers
- Industrial-grade Kuka robotic arm for rapid and reliable scaling
- AdaptAI, leveraging foundational models trained with customer-specific data and accelerated through teleoperation
- InteleOp, enabling fast and safe operation of high-payload industrial robotic arms through teleoperation
- Handles boxes ranging from 6" to 30" in dimension lengths and up to 65 lbs
- Flexible design allows easy relocation between docks via remote control or forklift