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With a declining available labor pool and sky-rocketing eCommerce sales there is a shortage of over half a million warehouse workers. Today, Nimble robots are deployed in fulfillment centers across the United States picking over 100,000 items per day for customers including several Fortune 500 retailers.Ĭatalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic, eCommerce doubled in 2020, accelerating nearly 10 years of growth in the span of just a few months, according to McKinsey & Co.įinding reliable warehouse labor now ranks among the highest pain points for retailers as they attempt to maintain business continuity and simultaneously scale their fulfillment operations. Nimble’s fleet of AI-powered robots intelligently pick, pack, and handle millions of products, spanning from apparel and electronics to beauty, general merchandise and grocery items. Nimble’s mission is to democratize affordable, on-demand fulfillment for every ecommerce retailer. Sebastian Thrun, Founder of GoogleX and Waymo (Google’s self-driving car division), co-founder of Udacity and CEO of Kitty Hawk, former Director of Stanford’s AI Lab (SAIL) The company also announced the appointment of AI industry pioneers to its Board of Directors:įei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), former Director of Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), former Chief Scientist of AI at Google Cloud, Twitter Board Director, and creator of ImageNet.

The capital raised will further accelerate the company’s hiring plans, product and technology development and scaling of robot deployments for its customers’ fulfillment operations.
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We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble, we’re passionate overachievers and we’re relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals.SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nimble Robotics, Inc., a robotics and ecommerce fulfillment technology company, today announced a $50 million Series A financing led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures with participation from Accel and Reinvent Capital among others. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We’re not in this to do what’s easy or to be mediocre. We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day.
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Our product uniquely fuses robotics, computer vision, deep imitation, self-supervised and reinforcement learning, teleoperation, intelligent hardware design, and a lot of real-time software to afford robots an unprecedented level of dexterity today, while training them to become increasingly intelligent and autonomous over time.

Our board of directors include AI luminaries Sebastian Thrun (the founder of GoogleX, Waymo, Udacity, and KittyHawk Stanford Professor considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (former Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford's AI Lab and creator of the ImageNet dataset that spawned the deep learning revolution in 2012). Our investors have back famous startups like SpaceX, Spotify, Facebook, Venmo, DJI, Scale and others. Nimble has raised $50M in capital from prestigious investors including Accel, DNS Capital, GSR Ventures, and Reinvent. We were founded from the artificial intelligence labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and much of our engineering management team comes from NASA. Nimble is creating robot AI to build the next generation of intelligent robotic fulfillment centers.
