can<\/em> potentially change:\u00a0the workflows inside its warehouses.<\/p>\nWarp started by installing cameras into its test warehouse in Los Angeles and used computer vision to turn that data into a virtual warehouse to start experimenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe effectively made a digital twin, or simulation environment for our LA facility,\u201d Sokolovsky said. \u201c[We] basically started just like throwing stuff at the wall. Honestly, a lot of it was, what happens if we do this? What happens if we do that? What happens if we do that other thing?\u201d<\/p>\n
One of their first ideas was to train humanoid robots to use traditional pallet jacks, which did not work. Then Warp started to find success using off-the-self robots with some additional tech retrofitted on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve taken really, really complicated logistics problems, divided them into a lot of easily digestible, system understood and system-fed components,\u201d Sokolovsky said. \u201cWe are now using, whether it\u2019s AI in the form of voice, text, email, phone calls or robotics, [to make sure] that we\u2019re unloading, storing and reloading freight. We actually think that we can actually continue this on, and really get to our goals as quickly as possible, without hiring more people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Troy Lester, Warp co-founder and CRO, said that these robots will help give Warp\u2019s underlying warehouse partners \u2014 other than its Los Angeles test facility, the company doesn\u2019t outright own the warehouses in its network \u2014 an edge, also helping to reduce labor costs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re complaining to us about staffing issues all the time,\u201d Lester said. \u201cThe labor that\u2019s doing the work in these facilities, they\u2019re not liking it either. So I think there is an opportunity to kind of empower those businesses to have these robotic kits that would not only help make our network better, but help make their business with other companies better as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warp raised a $10 million Series A round to help with this latest development. The round was co-led by Up.Partners and Blue Bear Capital.<\/p>\n
Warp is testing several different versions of the robots and ambitiously claims it will start deploying this year.<\/p>\n
Sokolovsky said Warp\u2019s Los Angeles test facility is totally autonomous, and the company plans to start deploying these robots to warehouses in its core networks \u2014 Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, Dallas, and Miami \u2014 first. Warp doesn\u2019t plan on selling the tech outside of its hub \u2014\u00a0at least for now \u2014\u00a0because it gives Warp, and its underlying warehouse partners, a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of going out and saying, hey, we\u2019re just a robot company, AI company, and spend money on like this potential concept, it\u2019s like, no, we\u2019re actually a logistics company that has been really impacting and servicing our customers,\u201d Sokolovsky said. \u201cFor the past few years now, we\u2019ve developed an amazing system and an ecosystem that\u2019s allowing us to deploy these kinds of automations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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