Pickle Robot

Pickle Robot builds AI-enabled robots that unload floor-loaded trailers and containers in warehouses and distribution centers. Its production systems combine perception, manipulation and adaptable handling software to move mixed freight while working alongside logistics teams.

Facts

  • Segment: Warehouse Logistics
  • Country: United States
  • Founded: 2018
  • Website: https://www.picklerobot.com/

About

About Pickle Robot

Pickle Robot builds robotic systems for unloading floor-loaded trailers and containers in logistics facilities. The system combines a mobile industrial arm, perception and manipulation software to handle mixed cases at receiving docks, where item size, placement and packaging vary from load to load.

Pickle sells a task-specific warehouse automation system with deployment and support services. Its operating scope is trailer and container unloading; performance depends on freight mix, dock layout and the customer's material-flow process.

Funding

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Investors

  • Catapult Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-11-15 - latest 2024-11-20
  • Ranpak - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-11-15 - latest 2024-11-20
  • Third Kind Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-04-14 - latest 2024-11-20

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Market context

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Timeline

  • 2024-11-20 - Funding - Pickle Robot raises USD 50M Series B - Investors included Teradyne Robotics Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Ranpak, Third Kind Venture Capital, One Madison Group, Hyperplane and Catapult Ventures. The company said six customers placed orders in Q3 2024 for deployment in the first half of 2025. - source: picklerobot.com
  • 2021-04-14 - Funding - Pickle Robot raises $5.75 million seed round - TechCrunch reported the seed financing as $5.75 million and described Pickle as an MIT-originated robotics company focused on package handling. The company was developing robots to unload floor-loaded trailers, where mixed cartons and shifting freight make… - source: techcrunch.com

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Team

  • John Preston - VP of Strategic Initiatives - Preston leads strategic customer programs and fundraising work tied to Pickle Robot enterprise deployment growth.
  • Jeff Evanson - Chief Financial Officer - Evanson leads Pickle Robot financial strategy as the company scales commercial deployments and manufacturing operations.
  • AJ Meyer - Founder & CEO - Meyer leads Pickle Robot as it commercializes physical AI for truck unloading and logistics automation.

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Relations

  • Ambi Robotics - Workflow Integration Partner - Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrated trailer unloading with AmbiStack palletizing for receiving workflows.
  • United Exchange Corporation - Deployment Customer - Pickle Robot operated its truck-unloading system in a live pilot with United Exchange Corporation.

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