Loading organizations...
Plus One Robotics delivers AI-powered vision solutions for warehouse automation, specializing in tasks like induction, depalletizing, and palletizing. The company leverages advanced AI software for rapid, accurate logistics operations. Its technical approach integrates Yonder, a supervised autonomy platform, enabling human operators to remotely resolve complex edge cases, ensuring flow.
Founded in 2016 by robotics and computer vision experts Erik Nieves, Shaun Edwards, and Paul Hvass, the company emerged from their collaborative work on the ROS-Industrial open-source project. Their core insight identified the need for intelligent automation in logistics, addressing labor challenges through human-robot collaboration.
Logistics and fulfillment operations deploy Plus One Robotics’ products to boost material handling productivity and safety. The company's vision, "Robots Work. People Rule.", promotes automation's harmonious integration with human oversight. It strives to deliver predictable productivity and scalable fulfillment, augmenting human capabilities with dependable robotic systems.
Plus One Robotics has raised $129.0M across 5 funding rounds.
Plus One Robotics has raised $129.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Plus One Robotics has raised $129.0M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Plus One Robotics's investors include Scale Venture Partners, Afore Capital, Basecamp Fund, BMW i Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, Convective Capital, Curie.Bio, Designer Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, Founder Collective, Gradient Ventures, Ironspring Ventures.
Plus One Robotics is an AI-driven robotics company that builds high-speed vision and supervised‑autonomy systems to automate parcel induction, depalletizing, and palletizing in warehouses and e‑commerce fulfillment centers[2][5]. Plus One’s platform combines PickOne vision software, robotic manipulators (including a dual‑arm InductOne cell and the DepalOne depalletizer), and a human‑in‑the‑loop supervision layer called Yonder to deliver high throughput, exception handling, and rapid deployment for logistics operators[3][4][8].
High‑Level Overview
Origin Story
Core Differentiators
Role in the Broader Tech Landscape
Quick Take & Future Outlook
Quick take: Plus One Robotics combines advanced vision software, remote supervised autonomy, and pre‑engineered robotic cells to tackle the hardest, most variable tasks in parcel logistics—positioning itself as a practical enabler of faster, more flexible warehouse automation for large logistics operators[2][8][3].
Plus One Robotics has raised $129.0M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $53.0M Series C in March 2023.