According to roboticsandautomationnews.com, Plus One Robotics has surpassed 2 billion successful robotic picks across its global fleet of parcel induction and depalletization robots — a milestone achieved in its 10th anniversary year and marking accelerated adoption amid persistent labor pressures in logistics.
A Decade of Scaling AI-Powered Picking
The company reached its first 1 billion picks in eight years, then doubled that total in just two years — underscoring rapid deployment growth and operational maturity. Founded in 2016, Plus One Robotics specializes in AI-powered robotic vision for material handling, with solutions purpose-built for the variability of real-world parcel operations: mixed-SKU induction, irregular packaging, and complex depalletization tasks.
Its human-in-the-loop architecture — which integrates human oversight with AI decision-making — enables continuous learning from live warehouse data. Over the past decade, Plus One has compiled one of the industry’s most extensive real-world parcel datasets, drawn from billions of images and interactions across countless parcel types and configurations.
Global Expansion and Strategic Partnerships
Recent geographic expansion includes operations in Australia, supporting verticals such as wine and food & beverage, consumer products, and co-packing. Technologically, the company launched DepalOne for depalletization and deployed InductOne across peak-season operations to optimize throughput.
Plus One has also strengthened integrations with major industrial partners, including:
- beRobox, a robotics systems integrator;
- Honeywell, a global leader in warehouse automation hardware and software;
- Fanuc, a top-tier industrial robotics OEM.
Leadership Perspective: People and Machines, Not Either/Or
“Reaching 2 billion picks during our 10th anniversary year is both humbling and energizing. From day one, our goal has been simple: Build robots that work in real warehouses reliably, safely and at scale. Two billion picks represent billions of real-world decisions made in live production environments. Most importantly, that’s 2 billion tasks people didn’t have to perform manually, allowing them to focus on higher-value work.” — Erik Nieves, co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics
“When we founded Plus One Robotics 10 years ago, we believed the future of warehouse automation wouldn’t be robots alone, but amplified by people. Two billion picks later, the data validates that belief. Our systems have learned from billions of images and interactions across countless parcel types. That data advantage allows us to deploy faster, scale smarter and continuously push the boundaries of what robotic vision can achieve.” — Shaun Edwards, co-founder and CTO of Plus One Robotics
For supply chain professionals, this milestone signals more than technical achievement: it reflects growing operational readiness of AI-driven robotic picking in high-variability, labor-constrained environments. Unlike fixed-gripper or rule-based systems, Plus One’s vision-first approach supports rapid reconfiguration across SKUs, carton sizes, and orientation — reducing integration time and enabling scalability without full-line redesign. As e-commerce volumes continue rising and same-day/next-day delivery expectations intensify, such adaptable automation is shifting from cost-saving experiment to core infrastructure. Industry-wide, similar trends are visible: Honeywell’s recent acquisition of Locus Robotics (2023), Fanuc’s expanded logistics partnerships with startups like Locus and inVia, and DHL’s multi-year rollout of AI-powered sortation across 30+ hubs all reinforce that intelligent, vision-guided robotic manipulation is now central to resilient, responsive fulfillment networks.
Source: Robotics & Automation News
Compiled from international media by the SCI.AI editorial team.
