Automation
Robotics that optimize storing, sorting, staging and sequencing - all inside a dense cube - increases accuracy, optimizes timely delivery to pick stations, palletizing areas and docks, reducing footprint and lowering operating, equipment and labor costs by up to 75%.
Speed
Outpaces leading AS/RS systems with faster storage, retrieval than they do, and the automation of sorting, staging, and sequencing that they don't. Its carrier robots multitask, handling multiple trays and performing storing and retrieving in a single trip.
Cost Efficiency
The lowest ‘cost per order’ and ‘total cost of ownership’ of any leading AS/RS. Powered by energy-efficient rails, it eliminates battery dependence, costly recycling, disposal, and reduces fire risks. Maintenance-friendly components outside the cube ensure easy access, less downtime and lower maintenance costs.
Tolerance
Can be installed in every location that market leaders can and most they can’t. No special accommodations to the facility are required. A modular rack design, which expands vertically and horizontally like Lego blocks, adapts to any future demands, product changes, business requirements and capacity expansion without demolition, reconstruction, major retrofitting or new builds. The system works with uneven floors, columns, and exit doors - ideal for Brownfield and Greenfield sites alike.
Adaptability
Trays of multiple widths, lengths and depths can move full cases, bulky items and 'each-picks' up to 100 pounds - in the same cube. Stackable trays store within the cube, saving floor space, while cross-docking and 70-foot height capabilities reduce footprints. Mounts on ceilings. Adapts to trucks for time, labor and fuel savings for multi-stop routes.
Simplicity
Our system was designed with easily sourced, maintenance-friendly components and a simple assembly so it can be serviced by a technician, not a robotics engineer. A wrench and screwdriver are just about all that’s needed for maintenance and repair.
Density
With cross-docking functions like sorting, staging and sequencing automated within the cube, and 70-foot height capabilities, the system can hold over 2x the inventory of the leading dense cube solutions in the same footprint to delivers a higher revenue per sqft and enhanced cube utilization.
Custom Applications
Because of our unique design, the Freespace Robotics system has a number of yet unseen applications. Not only can we deploy in a truck trailer, delivery van or cargo container, we can suspend the system from ceilings, turning retail locations and grocery stores into micro-fulfillment centers.
'EcoShuffle' Storing & Retrieving
The core of our breakthroughs in speed, flexibility, reliability, versatility and cost efficiencies is how the system moves goods. Our robotic carrier pairs, approach two rows simultaneously and shuffle goods in an energy efficient manner – clockwise or counterclockwise to the nearest exit, depending on the fastest path to retrieve goods.
Fit Your Warehouse
Not all warehouses are shiny new buildings with perfect floors and out of the way walls and columns. We designed our system to accommodate the quirks of brownfield sites so that automation of cross-docking operations and 'goods to person' are accessible without a 7-figure renovation or 8-figure facility build. Our system, because of its structural design principles, can go around corners or columns, uneven roof lines and ductwork as well as adjust pitch and level for uneven flooring.
Fit Your Products
One of the challenges retailers, suppliers and distributors have trying to automate operations, is that the goods they carry come in such a broad range of sizes. Freespace Robotics system is the only solution that can automate piece-pick, bulky items and case-pick in the same system. Each layer of our AS/RS can be a different height, configured for different throughput rates and do so in vastly different dimensions. We don’t ask our customers to adapt their needs to the specs of our robots, we shape our carrier robots and configurations to meet the inventory automation needs of our customers.
Scale As You Need
The modular rack design, which expands vertically and horizontally like Lego blocks, adapts to any future demands, product changes, business requirements and capacity expansion. With the flexibility Freespace Robotics offers in terms of size and weight of goods handled, and the open-ended structural options, we’ve attracted leaders in retail, defense logistics, wholesale food distributors and grocery, as well as parts suppliers and manufacturers to our solution. With no height limitations and the ability to extend an installed system later, Freespace offers a versatile solution that grows and adapts to your business - extending its performance and ROI.
Freespace Robotics provides business to business (B2B) engineering design and development of custom AS/RS systems for commercial warehouses and locations, both fixed and mobile.
Our design and engineering of warehouse robotic systems and associated software to move, sort and queue inventories, loads and SKU's, meet the needs of more industries - and serves the broadest spectrum of use cases - than any other system on the market;
- Warehouses
- Distribution centers
- Fulfillment, Micro-fulfillment, Reserves
- Case-picking, Piece Picking, Large/Odd items*
- Totes, Trays, or Bins*
- E-commerce, Grocery, Apparel, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Frozen, Chilled, and Ambient*
- 3PL, Multi-stop deliveries
- Defense Logistics, Kitting
- Manufacturers
* in the same structure