Applications
Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS)
An automated storage and retrieval system is warehouse infrastructure that stores and fetches inventory without manual handling, using stacker cranes running in racking aisles, multi-level shuttle systems, or grid-based robot swarms such as AutoStore's cube storage. AS/RS installations maximize storage density and throughput for goods-to-person fulfillment, delivering totes to stations where humans or robotic arms pick individual items.
Why it matters for physical AI
Goods-to-person systems concentrate the remaining manual work into piece-picking at stations, exactly the unstructured grasping problem that learned manipulation is now being deployed to close.
Build physical AI
Put these concepts to work on real hardware
Axol is a dual-arm robot built for physical AI — teleoperate it, collect demonstrations, and deploy learned policies out of the box.