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Avidbots’ Neo 2W was designed to scrub flooring in warehouses and manufacturing environments. | Supply: Avidbots

Avidbots introduced the launch of the Neo 2W, a cleansing robotic designed particularly for warehouses and manufacturing environments to enhance cleansing high quality, effectivity and productiveness. 

The Neo 2W was designed in collaboration with industrial customers to beat the challenges that warehouses and manufacturing environments pose for robots. Warehouses can include additional ground particles, dynamic exercise and frequent format modifications. 

Avidbots’ Neo 2W has an unique AI and {hardware} configuration that helps the robots clear with out human intervention. It’s additionally geared up with Particles Diverter, which limits the affect of particles on Neo by diverting it, defending the wheels and decreasing dangers of clogs within the vacuum hose and tank. 

Neo 2W additionally comes with Bulk Navigator, which makes use of superior localization algorithms that enable the robotic to scrub in dynamic and difficult environments, and Superior Impediment Detection (AOD). AOD makes use of machine studying capabilities to establish and keep away from obstacles like pallets and forklift or pallet mover tines, on the ground.

“The discharge of Neo 2W comes at a well timed second when 3PL and manufacturing corporations are on the lookout for options that carry the very best operational efficiencies,” Faizan Sheikh, CEO and co-founder at Avidbots, stated. “With the usage of Neo 2W, corporations are in a position to fight labor provide challenges and automate the time-consuming, labor-intensive activity of retaining their services clear.”

The Neo 2W additionally consists of industrial-strength, swappable batteries that ship six hours of cleansing on a single cost and Dwelling Base, which ensures Neo 2W can begin and return from any location. Different customary security options, like 3D cameras, lasers and sensors to keep away from collisions, and direction-indicating security lighting, are additionally included. 

“Neo 2W is the results of intensive involvement from clients primarily based on their experiences utilizing autonomous robots in warehouse settings. Avidbots gathered suggestions, examined prototypes in real-life situations and utilized this knowledge to ship a really purpose-built robotic,” Sheikh stated. “Given this strong course of, we’re in a position to ship even higher worth to industrial clients. For example, the centered resolution delivers extra cleansing productiveness – as much as 42,000 sq. toes per hour – resulting from Neo 2W’s distinctive potential to maneuver in difficult warehouse environments.”

In September 2022, Avidbots introduced in $70 million in a Collection C funding spherical, which it deliberate to make use of the spherical of funding to increase its fleet of robots and improve its autonomy software program. The corporate’s flagship robotic Neo 2 is an autonomous robotic ground scrubber. The robotic might help clear companies, airports, faculties and warehouses. 

Avidbots has raised $107 million up to now and at the moment has greater than 1,000 robots deployed in additional than a dozen nations all through North America, Asia, Australia, the Center East and Europe. Together with the funding, Avidbots introduced that it has doubled down on its funding in Kitchener-Waterloo by securing extra house to assist R&D and testing.