The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Badger Technologies: 1 model, 3 deployments across 3 regions. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Badger Technologies develops autonomous retail robots for inventory management and shelf auditing in grocery and retail stores, a subsidiary of Piedmont National.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Parent
Robot
Customers
Technology
Deployed
Miles traveled
Key product
Fleet
Financial stage
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Every company Badger Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Badger Technologies on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Jul 2020. Explore where Badger Technologies's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- John Gehre CEOSEC-verified
- Sarjoun Skaff Co-Foundersecondary-verified
- Martin Hitch Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Sarjoun Skaffno longer at company
- Martin Hitchno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Badger Technologies.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Badger Technologies3 deployments
Recent coverage
Badger Technologies in third-party press
Badger Technologies Names Retail Industry Veteran John Gehre CEO, Expands Leadership Team
STCR Works with Badger Technologies to Help Independent Grocers Adopt Robots
Badger Technologies Launches Digital Teammate Platform Powered by Next-Generation Multipurpose Autonomous Robots
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Badger Technologies competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Badger Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—operating
- badger-technologies x awswithAWS976technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJul 28, 2020
Badger Multipurpose Robot at Wisconsin and Illinois, USA
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 14, 2019
Badger Multipurpose Robot at Pennsylvania, USA
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2019
Badger Multipurpose Robot at Northeast United States (300+ stores)
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Badger Technologies.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Mammotion7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Badger Technologies from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Badger Technologies Names Retail Industry Veteran John Gehre CEO, Expands Leadership Team
Badger Technologies, a product division of Jabil Inc., appoints John Gehre as CEO and expands its leadership team.
STCR Works with Badger Technologies to Help Independent Grocers Adopt Robots
Badger Technologies collaborates with STCR Inc. to speed deployments of autonomous mobile robots in independent and regional grocery stores.
Badger Technologies Launches Digital Teammate Platform Powered by Next-Generation Multipurpose Autonomous Robots
Badger Technologies launches its Digital Teammate platform with 1,000+ robots deployed for hazard detection and inventory management in retail.
Digital Teammate from Badger Technologies uses multipurpose robots
Badger Technologies has deployed 1,000+ robots that have traveled 30+ million miles at leading grocery, hardware, and retail chains.
Stine Deploys Badger Technologies Autonomous Robots
Badger Technologies multipurpose autonomous robots deployed at Stine stores, detecting out-of-stock products with 95%+ accuracy.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/badger-technologies.md
- RSS feed: /companies/badger-technologies/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a8eca899-02c9-487b-ad87-235972a018e8
- Revision history: /companies/badger-technologies/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Mammotion7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
Video
Marty mobile robot by Badger Technologies working at Stop & Shop, scanning inventory and checking for spills.
Marty the Robot from Badger Technologies CEO Tim Rowland at NRF 2019.
Karen Mitchell, CMO of Stop & Shop, explains how Badger Technologies humanized Marty the Robot.
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Badger Technologies draws attention at the 30th percentile but verifies reality at the 40th percentile among service robots. Hype Gap -10.2, 52nd widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026