Yondu

Yondu builds drop-in robotic bin-picking systems for existing 3PL warehouses. Its general-purpose robots are designed for brownfield layouts and are being tested and rolled out with fulfillment operator Shipbots.

Facts

Segment: Warehouse Logistics
Country: United States
Founded: 2023
Website: https://yondu.ai/

Market context

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Timeline

2025-09-19 - Product Launch - Yondu publicly launches its physical AI platform for warehouse automation - The launch positioned the system as drop-in automation for existing warehouses without requiring new storage infrastructure. ULTRON supplies low-latency remote operation while warehouse-management integration routes orders and robot work. The general… - source: linkedin.com
2025-07-23 - Capability - Yondu reports production progress across teleoperation and manipulation AI - The company completed four iterations of ULTRON, its low-latency teleoperation system for deployed warehouse robots. It also built a real-time three-dimensional visualization environment and trained the Yondu general manipulation model. Thousands of recorded… - source: linkedin.com
2025-04-06 - Demonstration - Yondu demonstrates its warehouse robot pilot at ShipBots - The pilot placed Yondu robots inside a ShipBots fulfillment operation rather than in a standalone laboratory setting. Low-latency teleoperation supplied immediate task execution while capturing real warehouse episodes for model development. The deployment… - source: linkedin.com

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Team

Michael Chen - Co-Founder - Leads development of Yondu's general-purpose warehouse robots.
Tahmid Jamal - Co-Founder - Leads AI and robotics development for Yondu's warehouse systems.

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Relations

ShipBots - Warehouse Pilot And Deployment Site - Yondu deployed and iterated its warehouse robots in a ShipBots fulfillment operation.

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