Symbotic

Symbotic is a warehouse automation company founded in 2007 as CasePick Systems and renamed in 2012, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. It serves large retailers and wholesalers that need to cut labor costs and increase throughput and accuracy in distribution centers handling native case inventory.

The platform stores goods in their original cases within a dense, fully enclosed storage structure, where autonomous SymBots retrieve and transport totes and cases to pick stations while AI software predicts inventory needs and sequences pallet building. Customers include Walmart, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Albertsons and Medline, and the company also offers a warehouse-as-a-service model.

1. Native case storage: goods stay in their original cases inside a secured, dense storage structure.

2. SymBot fleet: autonomous robots retrieve and transport totes and cases at high speed within the structure.

3. AI inventory software: predictive algorithms manage stock placement and pallet-building sequence.

4. Ergonomic pick stations: operator workstations receive sorted totes and cases for order fulfillment.

5. SymMicro: a compact configuration for micro-fulfillment and each-pick operations.

6. Warehouse-as-a-service: an operating model that lets retailers adopt the system without owning the infrastructure outright.