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Nimble robotics series li1/22/2024 SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE)– Nimble Robotics, Inc., a robotics and ecommerce fulfillment technology company, today announced a $50 million Series A financing led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures with participation from Accel and Reinvent Capital among others. The capital raised will further accelerate the company’s hiring plans, product and technology development and scaling of robot deployments for its customers’ fulfillment operations. The company also announced the appointment of AI industry pioneers to its Board of Directors: “I am excited about the team at Nimble and their ambition to invent the next generation of fulfillment centers, building on the best of robotics and artificial intelligence.”.Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), former Director of Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), former Chief Scientist of AI at Google Cloud, Twitter Board Director, and creator of ImageNet.Sebastian Thrun, Founder of GoogleX and Waymo (Google’s self-driving car division), co-founder of Udacity and CEO of Kitty Hawk, former Director of Stanford’s AI Lab (SAIL).Nimble’s mission is to democratize affordable, on-demand fulfillment for every ecommerce retailer. Nimble’s fleet of AI-powered robots intelligently pick, pack, and handle millions of products, spanning from apparel and electronics to beauty, general merchandise and grocery items. Today, Nimble robots are deployed in fulfillment centers across the United States picking over 100,000 items per day for customers including several Fortune 500 retailers.Ĭatalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic, eCommerce doubled in 2020, accelerating nearly 10 years of growth in the span of just a few months, according to McKinsey & Co. Finding reliable warehouse labor now ranks among the highest pain points for retailers as they attempt to maintain business continuity and simultaneously scale their fulfillment operations. With a declining available labor pool and sky-rocketing eCommerce sales there is a shortage of over half a million warehouse workers. “There is no fulfillment solution that can handle double the orders, fulfill them in half the time, with half the staff, for half the cost. We're building a fully autonomous logistics service using next-gen AI robotics so every brand can offer free 2-day or less delivery. Building a fully autonomous 3PL fulfillment service to power the future of fast, efficient and sustainable commerce. We’ve assembled an all-star team of engineers to build the future of autonomous on-demand fulfillment to solve this problem. Nimble 10,191 (na) tagasubaybay sa LinkedIn.
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