RightHand Robotics

RightHand Robotics

RightHand Robotics builds AI-powered piece-picking systems for fulfillment centers. Its RightPick platform combines a sensorized gripper, vision and fleet software for varied inventory, with deployments spanning North America, Europe and Japan and commercial customers including Staples and Apotea.

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Website: https://righthandrobotics.com/
HQ: Somerville, United States
Founded: 2015
Segment: Warehouse Logistics
Known funding rounds: 5

Investors

Menlo Ventures - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2018-12-17 - latest 2022-02-23
Dream Incubator - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2017-03-28 - latest 2018-12-17
Playground Global - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2017-03-28 - latest 2018-12-17
Rockwell Automation - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-06
Safar Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-14
Epson - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
F-Prime Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Future Shape - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Global Brain - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
GV - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Matrix Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Menlo Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Safar Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Zebra Technologies - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-02-23
Seven Seas Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2017-03-28

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 commercial order; latest event 2024-02-13

2024-02-13 - Commercial order - Staples signs multi-year RightPick deployment agreement - source: righthandrobotics.com

Events

2025-03-06 - Funding - Rockwell Automation makes strategic investment in RightHand Robotics - The companies did not disclose the investment amount or transaction terms. The relationship connects RightPick piece-picking technology with Rockwell automation and system-integrator ecosystem. Both companies said the work would reduce integration risk and ti…
2024-08-14 - Funding - RightHand Robotics secures new funding - The company did not disclose the amount or full investor group. Safar Partners described continued investor support for the company and its piece-picking platform. RightHand said the capital would support international scaling and wider deployment of RightPic…
2024-08-14 - Executive Hire - RightHand Robotics appoints Yaro Tenzer CEO - Tenzer returned to the chief executive role after co-founding RightHand Robotics. Former CEO Brian Owen planned to remain involved as an advisor and investor. The leadership change accompanied a new financing round and a renewed focus on international RightPi…
2024-06-13 - Deployment - RightHand Robotics expands Apotea automation to Varberg logistics center - The Varberg site was a 30,000-square-metre logistics center for Sweden online pharmacy Apotea. RightPick was planned for deployment, installation and full operation by 2025. The project integrated RightPick with SSI Schaefer Cuby shuttle automation for item h…
2024-02-13 - Commercial Order - Staples signs multi-year RightPick deployment agreement - The agreement allows Staples to install RightPick item-handling systems in its fulfillment centers. Staples selected the system after evaluating its performance across items with varied shapes, packaging, sizes and weights. Joint development nearly doubled th…
2022-02-23 - Funding - RightHand Robotics raises USD 66M Series C - Safar Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round. The company planned to accelerate product and business development and expand its global partner network. The capital supports robot manipulation, haptics or human-assistive robo…
2018-12-17 - Funding - RightHand Robotics raises USD 23 million Series B - Menlo Ventures led the round, with GV joining Dream Incubator, Matrix Partners and Playground Global. RightHand planned to grow its business and technical teams and broaden the RightPick product line. The company reported deployments across North America, Jap…
2017-03-28 - Funding - RightHand Robotics raises USD 8 million Series A - Playground Global, Matrix Partners, Seven Seas Partners, Dream Incubator and angel investors backed the round. The company planned to expand product development, hiring and marketing. RightHand had launched RightPick as an integrated hardware-and-software sys…

Team

Yaro Tenzer - Co-founder and CEO

Relationships

Rockwell Automation - Strategic Investor - Rockwell Automation made a strategic investment in RightHand Robotics for integrated warehouse-automation projects.

Context tags

Autonomous warehouse picking - Workflow - Profile QA supports Autonomous warehouse picking.
Warehouse Automation - Customer Environment - Profile QA supports Warehouse Automation.

Customers and deployments

Customer Site Count - 1 planned RightPick logistics-center deployment - 2024-06-13 - Apotea - pharmacy warehouse item handling - RightHand Robotics expanded its Apotea agreement to deploy RightPick item-handling systems…

Articles

RightHand Robotics is building RightPick 4 into piece-picking cells - 2024-01-24 - RightPick 4, a larger item range, and more than one petabyte of picking data give RightHand Robotics a piece-picking automation layer.

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