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. “ECommerce continues to grow rapidly but the available warehouse labor force is actually declining. To date, we have 100% customer retention and 100% repeat customers,” said Kalouche. 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. “They developed a solution that integrated seamlessly within our existing physical and WMS/WCS structure." Nimble is the only one I’ve seen that has proven, scaled deployments in real warehouses performing real production picking,” said Helmut Leibbrandt, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management & Logistics – Americas. "There are a dozen or so robotics companies that claim to have a robotic picking solution. 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. 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 eCommerce ASRS picking robots. “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,” said Simon Kalouche, Nimble’s founder and CEO. A full production integration can all be done in one day using Nimble’s AI Integration tool. 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. 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. Nimble’s product offering uniquely solves these two critical 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). Additionally, integration of technology into warehouse ecosystems is a notoriously painful process. Having robots that can reliably handle all of this variability has been considered by many to be impossible. Each of those products are different sizes, shapes, weights, textures, stiffnesses and fragility. ECommerce fulfillment centers hold millions of different products. Over the past few years two challenges have stifled the adoption of pick and pack robots: robot reliability and technology integration challenges. The Nimble robots have picked more than 15 million objects, across 500,000 unique products ranging from eye-liners, belts, body wash and loofahs to keyboards, mice, USB sticks and game-consoles to lingerie, hoodies, and footwear – everything from daily essentials to holiday gift favorites. Nimble has deployed fleets of robots in production within warehouse environments across the United States this year with existing and new contracts that can grow the fleet with over 200 more robots in 2022. Nimble robots are picking in warehouses developed by the leading solutions integrators like AutoStore, Opex, Bastian, Swisslog, TGW and Kuecker Pulse Integration (KPI). Nimble is working with many of the world's largest and most well-known brands including Best Buy, Victoria’s Secret, Puma, NFI/CalCartage, iHerb, Adore Me, Weee! and others. SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE)- Nimble Robotics, Inc., a robotics and e-commerce fulfillment technology company, today shared for the first time a view of its robots picking and packing hundreds of thousands of customer orders in production each day.
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