The WARP was founded in 2021 to help companies reduce their shipment chains and reduce costs through this -driven network of ships, carriers and warehouses.
Now, he wants to make the supply chain more efficient by using a robot to automatically make his warehouse net.
Daniel Sokolosky, who is a co -founder and CEO of WARP, told Tech Crunch Warp Shipping is looking for ways to make its users more efficient, including businesses such as Walmart, Gopf, and Helfrish. With progress in the AI, the company thought that more opportunities could be found automatically.
Sokoloski said the WARP supply chain could not automatically automatically provide trucks or short range of aspects of supply, so it is working on it. Can Possibly change: work flow within your warehouses.
WARP started installing a camera in his test warehouse in Los Angeles and used computer vision to convert this data into a virtual warehouse to start experiment.
“We have effectively created digital twins, or counterfeit environments to facilitate our LA,” said Sokoloski. “(We) started basically like throwing goods on the wall. In fact, there was a lot of it, what happens if we do it? If we do this, what happens? If we do this other thing, what happens?”
One of his first ideas was to train Humanoid robots to use traditional palette jacks, which did not work. After that, the Warp began to succeed with some additional tech retrieved.
“We have really given rise to the problems of really complicated logistics, they are very easily digested, understood and divided into components fed by the system,” said Sokoloski. “Now we are using, whether it is AI in the form of sound, text, email, phone calls or robotics, (to make sure we are unloading, storing and reloading freight goods.
Troy Leicester, WARP co-founder and CRO said that the robots would help give WARP basic warehouse partners-in addition to the facility of Los Angeles Test, the company does not own warehouses in its network.
“They keep complaining to us about staff affairs all the time,” Leicester said. ” So I think there is an opportunity to empower these businesses not only to help these robotic kits improve our network, but also help to improve their business with other companies. “
The Warp collected a $ 10 million series to help with this latest development. The round was shared by UP Partners and Blue Beer Capital.
The WARP is examining a number of different versions of the robot, and his claim claims that his deployment will begin this year.
Sokoloski said the Warp’s Los Angeles Test facility is completely independent, and the company plans to deploy these robots in its primary networks – Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, Dallas, and Miami for warehouses. WARP does not intend to sell tech outside its center – at least for now – because the warp, and its basic warehouse partners, have a competitive advantage.
“Instead of going out and saying,” Hey, we are just a robot company, AI company, and spend money on this potential concept, not, not, in fact we are a logistics company that is really impressing and serving our customers, ” “For the past few years, we have developed an amazing system and an ecosystem that allows us to deploy this type of automation.”