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Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Ambi Robotics Sells Out AmbiStack for 2025 as Fortune 500 Customer Demand Accelerates
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ambi Robotics, the leader in AI-powered robotic sorting and stacking solutions for warehouse operations, today announced that its latest product, AmbiStack, is sold out for 2025 following strong market demand from FORTUNE 500 shipping and logistics customers. Since being introduced to the market in January, AmbiStack has received significant interest from leading logistics companies who are ready to embrace next-generation AI technologies that drive increased throughput and multiply productivity across operations. Initial customer deployments of the robotic systems begin mid-year, with 2025 inventory fully reserved. Ambi Robotics is ramping up its production capacity to support significant growth and strategic deployments, and its manufacturing capabilities will be scaled to fulfill demand from customers waitlisted into 2026. 'Developed directly in response to customer feedback, AmbiStack fills a real gap in the market,' said Jim Liefer, CEO of Ambi Robotics. 'Retail and logistics giants needed a smarter, scalable way to handle stacking inbound and outbound packages with speed and accuracy as volumes keep rising, and they needed it a long time ago. Selling out our first full year of product just months after launch shows how urgent the demand truly is.' AmbiStack is an AI-powered robotic stacking solution designed to optimize material handling operations. The solution's multipick capability allows it to pick and place multiple items simultaneously, exceeding manual palletizing rates. Its modular design enables sorting and stacking to multiple pallets with a single machine, reducing the need for constant pallet removal and enabling round-the-clock operations. Pre-trained in simulation, AmbiStack is ready to deploy from day one, adapting seamlessly to different facility layouts. It uses a breakthrough in simulation to reality (Sim2Real) reinforcement learning to stack random boxes with high density. AmbiStack continuously improves its performance post-deployment by leveraging data collected in real-world operations. This data-driven feedback loop is central to the solution's long-term value. To reinforce its commitment to customer data security, Ambi Robotics received its first Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit report, which had no exceptions - an added validation of the standards the company continues to maintain. 'As our robotic solutions continue to scale within warehouses, so does the amount of robot data for training foundation models,' said Jeff Mahler, CTO of Ambi Robotics. 'Achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance is a critical step in ensuring secure data management and reinforcing trust with enterprise customers, especially as cybersecurity threats continue to evolve.' Ambi Robotics follows strict protocols for data access, handling and retention to safeguard customer information. The company conducts regular security audits and testing, including third-party penetration tests, to uphold the highest standards of protection. All customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and the AmbiOS operating system is hosted across multiple geographically distributed data centers with built-in redundancies. Ambi Robotics supports customer Single Sign-On (SSO) for secure login and uses data for remote support and continuous system improvement, including AI retraining. Ambi Robotics is well-positioned to accelerate the adoption of intelligent automation across the supply chain. As the company expands deployments and scales production, it remains focused on delivering reliable, secure and high-performance AI-powered robotic systems that meet the evolving needs of the world's largest retailers and logistics providers. About Ambi Robotics: Ambi Robotics is an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company developing advanced solutions that scale ecommerce operations to meet demand while empowering humans to handle more. The company's industry-leading AI operating system, AmbiOS, leverages proprietary simulation-to-reality (Sim2Real) technology and the latest AI foundation models to provide reliable high-speed robotic systems. At Ambi Robotics, the world's top roboticists, AI researchers, and leading business professionals work together to build cost-effective high-volume supply chain technologies. Founded in 2018, the company is located in Berkeley, Calif. For more information, please visit
Fox News
30-01-2025
- Business
- Fox News
Warehouse robot uses AI to play real-life Tetris to handle more than ever before
In a groundbreaking development for warehouse automation, Ambi Robotics just launched AmbiStack, a multipurpose robotic system that promises to transform the way items are stacked onto pallets and into containers. This innovative solution tackles a fundamental challenge in logistics: maximizing space utilization and reducing shipping costs. AmbiStack operates like a real-world 3D Tetris game, expertly arranging items to optimize space in containers and pallets. By minimizing wasted space, warehouses can significantly reduce shipping costs and improve overall efficiency. "Logistics companies are under continuous pressure to deliver items faster and for lower cost, which puts a lot of strain on operations to maintain reliability while rapidly adapting for the future," Jim Liefer, CEO of Ambi Robotics, also tells CyberGuy. "AmbiStack can be rapidly configured to automate the repetitive motions involved in a huge variety of stacking and palletizing applications, driving greater accuracy and efficiency, while future-proofing warehouse operations." The rapid development and deployment of AmbiStack was made possible by PRIME-1, Ambi Robotics' new artificial intelligence foundation model for warehouse robots. This advanced AI enables AmbiStack to begin working efficiently from day one in production environments. Ken Goldberg, co-founder and chief scientist at Ambi Robotics, tells CyberGuy, "The engineering team at Ambi Robotics used 4 years of proprietary warehouse data to train a state-of-the-art generative model for 3D warehouse operations; their experiments with real production systems confirm that PRIME-1 significantly outperforms their previous systems." Cost reduction and efficiency: AmbiStack addresses the pressing need for automated solutions that cut labor costs, reduce manual inefficiencies and tackle accuracy challenges. Ergonomic improvements: The system alleviates the physical strain on workers by handling heavy lifting tasks. Adaptive intelligence: Trained using Sim2Real reinforcement learning, AmbiStack can make real-time decisions, adapting to various scenarios and delivering a faster return on investment. Tackling complex tasks: Stacking presents more challenges than sorting, making AmbiStack a significant advancement in robotic capabilities. AmbiStack utilizes advanced vision systems and AI models trained on extensive data from parcel sorting experiences. The robot learns in a virtual environment, earning higher scores for better stacking performance with random items. Jeff Mahler, co-founder and CTO of Ambi Robotics, tells CyberGuy, "AmbiStack represents an evolution of our AI-powered robotics, building on our technology in physical AI to add stacking as a fundamental new robot skill in AmbiOS. We've started the AI flywheel for stacking with Sim2Real reinforcement learning and performance will only improve as robots collect data from production environments. We are committed to advancing this capability to provide reliable systems that deliver a strong ROI for our customers." The potential market for AmbiStack is vast, as efficient packing and stacking are crucial in logistics. By optimizing container usage, AmbiStack ensures that companies aren't "shipping air," leading to substantial cost savings in transportation. AmbiStack is designed to complement human workers, not replace them. It allows employees to focus on decision-making and strategic tasks while reducing physical strain and repetitive motions. By combining advanced AI with practical robotics, AmbiStack is addressing a long-standing challenge in logistics. As the industry continues to evolve, solutions like AmbiStack will play a crucial role in shaping the future of warehouse operations and supply chain efficiency. Do you believe these technologies will ultimately complement human workers or gradually replace them entirely in logistics and warehouse operations? Let us know by writing us at For more of my tech tips and security alerts, subscribe to my free CyberGuy Report Newsletter by heading to Follow Kurt on his social channels: Answers to the most asked CyberGuy questions: New from Kurt: Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
