Kinema Systems

Market context

Provided core perception and manipulation intelligence that enabled more advanced autonomous picking capabilities in logistics robotics systems.

Facts

• Website: https://www.kinemasystems.com
• HQ: San Francisco, United States
• Founded: 2012
• Segment: industrial robotics

Perception and manipulation software for robotic picking

Kinema Systems developed deep-learning perception and manipulation software for robotic picking systems in warehouse automation.

• Target environment: Subsea inspection, offshore operations, maritime monitoring, ports, ocean sensing and underwater data-collection workflows.
• Deployment model: Software and perception layer for robotic picking systems and warehouse automation.
• Customer context: Warehouse automation vendors, logistics operators, robotic picking teams and industrial automation customers.
• Workflow context: Warehouse picking, perception, grasp planning, manipulation software, logistics automation and robotic item handling.
• Commercial maturity: Robotic picking software company whose technology contributed to advanced warehouse manipulation. Relevance sits in perception and grasping intelligence rather than marine or field robotics.
• Market position: Warehouse robotics software layer for autonomous picking intelligence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on item variety, grasp reliability, perception quality, throughput, integration with warehouse systems and maintenance support.
• Adjacent context: ROVs, AUVs, subsea sensing, offshore inspection, maritime autonomy, ocean data and underwater robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2019-04-02 - Acquisition - Boston Dynamics acquires Kinema Systems - Boston Dynamics acquired Kinema Systems, a Menlo Park company whose Pick technology used vision sensors and deep learning to locate and move boxes on complex pallets. Boston Dynamics said the acquisition would strengthen its logistics products and team, linki…
• 2019-04-02 - Acquisition - Boston Dynamics acquires Kinema Systems to bolster deep learning and vision capabilities - Boston Dynamics acquired Kinema Systems, a Menlo Park startup specializing in 3D vision and deep learning for robotic arms in logistics. The acquisition established a Bay Area outpost and strengthened Boston Dynamics' push into warehouse automation and the lo…

Team

• Sachin Chitta - Founder & CEO

Relationships

• Boston Dynamics - Acquired Company - Boston Dynamics acquired Kinema Systems to add deep-learning-based vision for industrial robot manipulation.

Context tags

• Robotic piece-picking software - Peer Group
• Robotic piece-picking - Workflow
• Warehouse AI platform - Stack Layer