Manufacturing Automation: Working like ants: Attabotics uses ant colony model to automate logistics
by Manufacturing Automation
MA sits down for a Q&A with Scott Gravelle, the founder of Attabotics, a made-in-Canada robotic warehouse system
Photo: Attabotics
Calgary-based Attabotics is not just new to the logistics automation sector, but a pioneer in the space.
In August, the company was recognized as one to watch by an investment group led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, which provided $50 million in funding for Attabotics to scale up its manufacturing and commercial deployment, bringing the company’s total funding to $82.7 million.
What’s unique about Attabotics’ fulfillment platform is it provides “3D storage” by flipping the layout of a horizontal warehouse onto its side so that it’s arranged vertically, akin in shape and style to an ant colony.
Bins are stored in columns, and robotic shuttles on x, y and z axes move alongside to pick and transport the bins down to a workstation on the floor.
Read the full Q&A on Manufacturing Automation, one of Canadian Manufacturing‘s sister publications.
