How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

Warp was founded in 2021 to help companies streamline their shipping chains and to lower the costs through his technically engaged network of shippers, carriers and warehouses.

Now the supply chains wants to make further efficient by using robots to automate its web of warehouses.

Daniel Sokolovsky, the co-founder and CEO of Warp, told WAN that Wind Is always looking for ways to make shipping more efficient for his customers, including companies such as Walmart, Gopuff and HelloFresh. With the progress in AI, the company thought that there could be more options to automate.

WARP cannot automate the long -distance -dependent aspects of the supply chain can Potential change: the workflows in his warehouses.

Warp started by installing cameras in his test warehouse in Los Angeles and used computer vision to change that data in a virtual warehouse to start experimenting.

“We have effectively created digital twins or simulation environment for our LA facility,” said Sokolovsky. ‘[We] In principle, just like throwing things on the wall, started. To be honest, much of it was, what happens if we do this? What happens if we do that? What happens if we do that other thing? “

One of their first ideas was to train humanoid robots to use traditional pallet jacks that did not work. Then Warp started to find success with the use of robots outside the self with some extra technology that went on afterwards.

“We have really taken, really complicated logistics problems, they divided into many easily digestible, system -fed components,” said Sokolovsky. “We now use whether it is AI in the form of speech, SMS, E -mail, phone calls or robotics, [to make sure] That we unload freight, store and recharge. We actually think that we can actually continue this and achieve our goals as quickly as possible, without hiring more people. “

Troy Lester, co-founder of Warp and CRO, said these robots will help giving Warp’s underlying warehouse partners than his test facility in Los Angeles, the company does not possess the warehouses downright in its network-one lead, also to lower labor costs.

“They always complain about personnel problems,” said Lester. “The work that does the work in these facilities, they don’t like it either. So I think there is a chance to give those companies a kind of power to have these robot kits that would not only help to make our network better, but also to make their company better with other companies.”

Warp raised a Serie A round of $ 10 million to help with this latest development. De Ronde was co -read by Up.Partners and Blue Bear Capital.

Warp tests different versions of the robots and claims ambitiously that it will start implementing this year.

Sokolovsky said that Warp’s test facility in Los Angeles is completely autonomous, and the company is planning to use these robots in its core networks – Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, Dallas and Miami – First. Warp is not going to sell the technology outside his hub – at least for now – because it gives Warp, and its underlying warehouse partners, a competitive advantage.

“Instead of going out and saying, Hey, we are just a robot company, AI Company, and to spend money on like this potential concept, it is as if, no, we are actually a logistics company that has really influenced and maintenance,” said Sokolovsky. “In recent years we have developed a great system and an ecosystem with which we can implement this type of automation.”