![]() In today’s fulfillment centers, the process of picking, handling, and packing individual products into customer boxes is still performed manually. Our next-gen robotics technology will allow retailers and grocers of all sizes to have the fastest and most affordable fulfillment,” said Simon Kalouche, Nimble’s founder and CEO. We’ve assembled an all-star team of engineers to build the future of autonomous on-demand fulfillment to solve this problem. ![]() “There is no fulfillment solution that can handle double the orders, fulfill them in half the time, with half the staff, for half the cost. With a declining available labor pool and sky-rocketing eCommerce sales there is a shortage of over half a million warehouse workers. Finding reliable warehouse labor now ranks among the highest pain points for retailers as they attempt to maintain business continuity and simultaneously scale their fulfillment operations. Today, Nimble robots are deployed in fulfillment centers across the United States picking over 100,000 items per day for customers including several Fortune 500 retailers.Ĭatalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic, eCommerce doubled in 2020, accelerating nearly 10 years of growth in the span of just a few months, according to McKinsey & Co. Nimble’s fleet of AI-powered robots intelligently pick, pack, and handle millions of products, spanning from apparel and electronics to beauty, general merchandise and grocery items. Nimble’s mission is to democratize affordable, on-demand fulfillment for every ecommerce retailer. Sebastian Thrun, Founder of GoogleX and Waymo (Google’s self-driving car division), co-founder of Udacity and CEO of Kitty Hawk, former Director of Stanford’s AI Lab (SAIL).Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), former Director of Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), former Chief Scientist of AI at Google Cloud, Twitter Board Director, and creator of ImageNet.The company also announced the appointment of AI industry pioneers to its Board of Directors: Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering.Nimble Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche (Photo: Business Wire).Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering.Mobility Research and Business Development.Biomedical and Materials Engineering Complex.Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources.Racial and Social Justice Community of Practice.Nimble Robotics founder and CEO Simon Kalouche earned his bachelor’s with honors in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University in 2014. As an undergraduate, Kalouche was the recipient of Ohio State’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award and the first place winner of the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. He also minored in entrepreneurship and innovation. Kalouche went on to earn his master’s in robotics from Carnegie Mellon in 2016. Later that year, he began working towards a PhD in Robotics at Stanford University. ![]() Kalouche eventually paused his academic work to found Nimble Robotics. ![]() Nimble is reinventing fulfillment with intelligent robots that can pick and pack anything. Kalouche was recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in manufacturing and industry for 2021.įor those who don’t know, what does Nimble Robotics do? They already have fleets of robots out in the real world, picking millions of products for some of the world’s largest retailers. Nimble is creating intelligent robots, and we’re using those robots to reimagine and reinvent e-commerce fulfillment. If you look at the best Amazon warehouse in the world today, it has a lot of automation but it’s still designed around people: what people can do, where people can go, what’s safe, productive, ergonomic for people. When you fulfill an online order, you have to pick the items and pack them into a box.Īnd if you look at what those people are actually doing, they’re doing the picking and packing step – the last manual fulfillment task. That part is still manual in every warehouse because it’s really hard for robots to do, because there are millions of different products and objects and all of them are different sizes, shapes, weights, textures, stiffness, etc. Once you have robots that can intelligently pick, pack, and handle any object you no longer have to design warehouses around people.Īnd what we’re doing at Nimble is teaching robots how to handle all of these objects, all those millions of objects.
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