Warehouse
Logistics firm Radial installed 12 Covariant robot sorting stations at its warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, to sort health and beauty items.
A dated step forward on the record · Sets Covariant Brain's stage
What the source says
“Radial Inc. has installed 12 Covariant Robotic Putwalls at its fulfillment center in Louisville, Ky.”
What it means
Covariant Brain, from Covariant, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Covariant Brain
- About a quarter of Covariant's employees were expected to move to Amazon; Covariant said it would keep operating with its former COO, Ted Stinson, as CEO.
- Amazon took a non-exclusive licence to Covariant's AI models and hired its three co-founders and about a quarter of its staff. It was not a full purchase of the company.
- Covariant launched RFM-1, an AI model for robots trained partly on data from its warehouse robots.
- German online retailer Otto Group agreed to use 120 Covariant-powered robots across its warehouses, starting with two sites in Germany.
- Covariant raised $75 million more, bringing its total funding to $222 million.
- Covariant teamed up with robot maker ABB; their first joint system was being installed at Active Ants.