This company designs and deploys a dense, automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) cube that integrates storing, sorting, staging, and sequencing functions. The modular system handles diverse inventory sizes and weights, consolidating traditional warehouse processes to reduce required floor space and operational costs. Its design allows for high-speed order fulfillment and flexible expansion to adapt to changing business demands.
Funding
$5.3M 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
Many automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) require significant facility modifications and can only handle specific inventory sizes or weights, leading to compromises between storage density, speed, and flexibility. Existing solutions often necessitate separate systems for different-sized goods, increasing complexity and costs.
Solution
Freespace Robotics offers adaptable AS/RS solutions designed for efficient handling of diverse inventory within existing warehouse environments. Their systems accommodate a wide range of product sizes and weights without requiring extensive facility overhauls. The robotic system optimizes space utilization and operational speed, reducing labor costs through automated storing, locating, picking, and delivering of items. The design uses easily sourced parts for simple maintenance and repair, and the system can be installed in locations that competitors cannot, working with uneven floors and columns.
Target Audience
The primary customers are in retail, defense logistics, wholesale food distribution, grocery, parts suppliers, and manufacturing, seeking to automate piece-pick and case-pick operations for a broad range of product sizes and weights.
Features
- Handles totes or trays of multiple widths, lengths, and depths, with weights up to 100 pounds each, for both piece picking and case picking in the same system.
- Achieves over 2x the inventory density compared to leading dense cube solutions.
- Robots can handle more than one tote at a time and can multi-task, storing and retrieving in the same trip.
- Designed with easily sourced parts for simple maintenance and repair by a technician, not a robotics engineer.
- Tolerant of uneven floors, columns, and exit doors, minimizing facility modification requirements.
- Can be mounted on ceilings or adapted to trucks for flexible deployment options.
- "EcoShuffle" storing and retrieving method pairs robotic carriers to approach two rows simultaneously and shuffle goods in the most efficient manner.