2023年3月17日

自主物流和人工智能机器人公司Nimble近日宣布，该公司已在由Cedar Pine领投的B轮融资中筹集了6500万美元，现有投资者包括DNS Capital、GSR Ventures和Breyer Capital等。此次增资使融资总额达到1.15亿美元。“随着电子商务和仓库自动化继续呈现出令人难以置信的增长，我们被Nimble行业领先的AI机器人技术和3PL履行能力所吸引。”基于五年在机器人电子商务履行方面的经验，新资本将进一步推进Nimble建立下一代自主3PL履行中心全国网络的目标。为了扩大其机器人3PL履行服务规模，Nimble组建了一个由曾在亚马逊扩大物流业务规模的高管组成的团队。Nimble的技术进步由来自NASA、SpaceX、特斯拉、波士顿动力、GoogleX以及斯坦福大学、卡内基梅隆大学和麻省理工学院的世界级工程师共同打造。Nimble的智能机器人履约系统将自动挑选、包装和运输电子商务订单，同时将仓库面积减少75%。Nimble的机器人仓库网络将在1-2天内为品牌提供96%以上的美国人口覆盖，与传统的第三方物流提供商相比，点击提货可节省高达40%的成本。“寻找和留住仓库工人，同时满足2天交货标准，是我们客户的头号运营问题。品牌希望利用机器人和自动化解决方案来解决这个问题，但经常受到经济上的挑战。Nimble的创始人兼首席执行官Simon Kalouche表示:“我们的自主履行中心和第三方物流服务将使品牌能够以经济有效的方式获得最先进的机器人履行系统，而无需大量的前期投资。” “Many companies are working to incrementally automate the warehouse. They’re taking legacy old-school warehouse concepts that were designed around the ergonomics, safety and productivity of people and trying to automate each manual process one step at a time. We believe that approach leads to a suboptimal solution design – one with marginal gains and very high integration costs which ultimately dilutes the ROI. At Nimble, we’ve built intelligent robots that automate the hardest manual task in the warehouse, the unit-picking and packing process. Rather than inefficiently retrofitting warehouses that were designed for people, we’re completely reimagining and reinventing the warehouse to be conducive to robots – where robots can go and what robots can do. This first-principles approach unlocks a completely new type of autonomous warehouse that’s simpler, smaller, faster and more efficient than the best warehouses in the world today,” Kalouche added. “With E-commerce and warehouse automation continuing to exhibit incredible growth, we were attracted to Nimble’s industry leading AI robotic technology and 3PL fulfillment capabilities,” said Stephen Weiss of Cedar Pine LLC.. “Our robust due diligence process showed that Nimble has a clear technology lead on the incumbents and has an extraordinary opportunity to be the next generation leader in the industry.”