Takeoff’s new automated micro fulfillment centers feature AI-enabled robots
Retailers can leverage underutilized real estate by turning existing stores into micro distribution centers with Takeoff’s technology.
Takeoff, Boston, Mass., closed its series B financing, taking the total capital raised to $37 million, in order to launch a new groundbreaking technology that brings innovative automation to the e-grocery industry.
How it works is, customers place orders online through their local grocery store. These orders are then filled by Takeoff’s Automated Micro Fulfillment Centers, where AI-enabled robots assemble full supermarket orders of 60 items in just a few minutes, what is said to be a fraction of speed and cost vs. current manual picking options. These centers have 1/10 the footprint of a typical supermarket thanks to innovative robotics and compact vertical spaces.