Norwegian robotics firm Pickr.AI has developed a spread of versatile, modular selecting robots designed to combine into present warehouse infrastructure with out requiring intensive modifications.
The corporate’s robotic selecting know-how can work with automated storage programs together with AutoStore and different cube-based programs, in addition to vertical raise modules (VLMs), miniload and shuttle programs and traditional shelving used for zone selecting.
Pickr.AI says the method allows warehouse operators to introduce robotic automation incrementally quite than redesigning or changing their present storage infrastructure.
The corporate combines robotics, synthetic intelligence, superior 3D machine imaginative and prescient and gripping know-how to automate piece and order selecting.
Its programs are designed to function alongside each automated warehouse tools and human staff, with Pickr.AI concentrating on elevated capability, larger selecting accuracy and extra predictable working prices.
The corporate describes the idea as easy, versatile and scalable, with low implementation threat.
From preliminary installations to wider deployment
Pickr.AI already has programs working within the pharmaceutical and third-party logistics sectors and is now getting ready to broaden deployment throughout the Nordic area and internationally.
At third-party logistics firm Spedify, Pickr.AI know-how has been built-in with an present AutoStore system to supply steady order selecting throughout evenings, nights and weekends.
Spedify chosen the corporate as its automation accomplice, citing flexibility, scalability and fast worth creation among the many causes for adopting the system.
Pickr.AI has additionally deployed its PickrMate system at VESO Apotek, the place the robotic contributes to steady order selecting across the clock.
The system can perform selecting operations in a single day, getting ready orders for additional processing when the common working day begins.
Roald Valen, CEO of Pickr.AI, says: “Our ambition is to make robotic order selecting accessible to a wider vary of warehouses. Prospects ought to have the ability to automate step-by-step, with low threat and with out sacrificing the flexibleness they’ve in the present day. With Mats becoming a member of the workforce, we’re strengthening our means to deliver this know-how to a considerably bigger market.”
Concentrating on the selecting course of
Pickr.AI is positioning its know-how round one of the vital labor-intensive levels of warehouse materials movement – particular person merchandise and order selecting.
Fairly than growing a whole automated storage system, the corporate’s method is so as to add robotic selecting capabilities to infrastructure that warehouse operators have already got.
This enables the identical underlying robotic know-how to be deployed throughout totally different storage configurations and provides operators the choice of increasing automation as necessities change.
Pickr.AI says its patented know-how is meant to cut back the implementation boundaries related to robotic selecting whereas offering a scalable path to increased ranges of warehouse automation.
Pickr.AI appoints chief business officer
Because it strikes from its first confirmed installations towards broader business deployment, Pickr.AI has appointed Mats Halvorsen as chief business officer.
Halvorsen joins Pickr.AI from Factor Logic, the place he labored in strategic enterprise growth, gross sales, product partnerships and the commercialization of latest warehouse automation and intralogistics applied sciences.
He has additionally labored between know-how suppliers, programs integrators and finish customers on the introduction and business scaling of latest automation programs.
Valen says: “Mats combines intensive trade information with a powerful means to ship business outcomes. He understands the know-how, the operational realities going through clients and what it takes to construct each an organization and a market. We’re delighted to welcome him to the workforce as we take Pickr.AI into its subsequent part of progress.”
Halvorsen says: “Pickr.AI has developed know-how that addresses a transparent and rising market want – and maybe probably the most essential a part of the whole materials movement: selecting. Pickr.AI has created a patented and distinctive resolution that’s exceptionally effectively aligned with each the market and buyer necessities.
“The know-how can also be extremely aggressive when it comes to ease of set up, pricing and the general funding case. What really motivates me is the mixture of a extremely expert workforce, a product with clear buyer worth and the chance to construct one thing with worldwide potential. I consider each the know-how and the timing are proper.”
As chief business officer, Halvorsen will lead Pickr.AI’s gross sales and market technique, together with growth of latest clients and market segments, programs integrator and accomplice networks, buyer success and worldwide growth.
He will even be accountable for growing reference clients, documenting return on funding and establishing gross sales processes meant to assist wider deployment.
Halvorsen says: “The approaching years will likely be about delivering measurable outcomes for our clients, constructing robust references and establishing partnerships that allow us to scale. We’ll stay near our clients and the market.
“My elementary philosophy is that firms are constructed by individuals – not know-how alone. If we reach combining gifted individuals, robust partnerships and confirmed buyer worth, Pickr.AI has each alternative to turn into a big worldwide participant.”
Halvorsen relies in Japanese Norway and works with Valen, COO Henrik Øglænd Hovland and the corporate’s workforce in Stavanger. He assumed the place on September 1, 2026.
