Technology Category:
Problem Addressed:
Value Chain Position:
Robotics & Automation
Processing
Post Harvest
Website: softroboticsinc.com
Country: United States
Year Founded: 2013
Business Description Soft Robotics Inc. is leveraging its novel elastomeric robotic actuator technology to enable industrial robotics to interact with objects of varying size, shape, and weights, as well as objects that are easily damaged. The ability of the company’s technology to solve the critical challenge of adaptability and flexibility in robotics is allowing automated packaging and handling of the most delicate items in agriculture and other food markets. In a short time, Soft Robotics have automated tomato sorting and repacking, proven out the ability to package everything from strawberries to mushrooms, and enabled grocery order fulfillment. Ultimately, Soft Robotics technology will enable robotic automation to address the labor shortages in fruit and vegetable packaging, bring the most adaptable robotic tooling to automate grocery order packing and fulfillment, and demonstrate early technology readiness for harvest and in the field handling fruits and vegetables. Products and Services The Soft Robotics mGrip ecosystem is designed with versatility in mind. The grippers can fit the needs of integrators or distributors building grippers for customers, or end-users looking for a plug and play "out of the box" experience. The SuperPick seamlessly integrates with existing WMS and can pick from unstructured bins without pre-training SKUs. SuperPick’s no training capabilities makes deployment simple and painless, guaranteeing immediate results and faster ROI. Employees:
Post Valuation:
Total Raised to Date:
45
$115M
$54.32M
December 2018
December 2019
December 2019
Leadership Team • •
Carl Vause: Chief Executive Officer Mark Chiappetta: Chief Technology Officer
Key Achievements/ Partnerships • May 2019: Soft Robotics Named to the Robotics Business Review 2019 RBR50 List • September 2019: 6 River Systems & Soft Robotics announce strategic partnership • December 2019: Soft Robotics announces transformational partnership with FANUC to Accelerate Adoption of critical automation needs across industries 23