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Locus Robotics

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Warehouse-automation company (Wilmington MA) making LocusBots Collaborative picking AMRs, delivered as Robots-as-a-Service.

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Founded
2014
HQ
Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Locus Robotics: 5 models, 19 deployments across 13 regions, $364.0M raised. 19 sources back the record.

CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics

Appears inLogistics robots

Funding

$364.0M

Models

5

Deployments

19

Patents

13

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Regional ecosystem

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DEPLOY Index standings

Valuation of record

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$1.8B (reported, approximate)as of Nov 2022

Priced roundSeries F post-money

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Key facts

Chapter 11 filing

Locus Robotics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2023 following a challenging post-pandemic fundraising environment despite raising $117M Series F in November 2022. Emerged through restructuring with renewed focus on core logistics customers.

Post-restructuring status

Restructured and continuing operations. Acquired Nexera Robotics in May 2026 (Business Wire, May 19 2026), advancing mobile manipulation capabilities. NOT acquired by Ricoh.

Product

LocusBots collaborative picking AMRs

Business model

Robots-as-a-Service

Industry

Warehouse-automation

Data & sources

Press releases

2

News coverage

1

Patent documents

13

Web sources

3

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Models (5)

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Current platform

Locus Max

Locus Robotics' Max is a heavyweight autonomous mobile robot that safely transports large, heavy payloads (up to ~3,000 lb) through a facility, the heavy-duty member of the LocusOne AMR fleet.

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Current platform

Locus Vector

Locus Robotics' Vector is a flexible autonomous mobile robot for high-productivity material handling and logistics within warehouses, complementing the Locus Origin picking robot in the LocusOne multi-bot fleet.

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Current platform

Locus Origin

Locus Origin — next-generation collaborative AMR from Locus Robotics designed for high-volume order fulfillment in multi-level warehouse environments. Operates alongside human pickers, delivering 2X+ productivity improvement over traditional methods. Managed by the LocusOne warehouse execution platform with real-time operational visibility.

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Previous platform

LocusBot

AMR for warehouse picking and fulfillment. Collaborative picking alongside human workers. It is an autonomous mobile robot designed for physical AI applications. Key specifications include Type: Autonomous mobile robot for warehouse fulfillment, Use case: Order picking, goods-to-person.

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Current platform

LocusBot

Locus Robotics (Wilmington, Massachusetts) is a warehouse-automation company whose LocusBots are collaborative goods-to-person picking AMRs that work alongside human pickers, delivered on a Robots-as-a-Service subscription model via the LocusONE platform. The registry records it at commercial maturity: it operates across 150+ customers and 350+ sites in 20 countries, having surpassed 6 billion cumulative picks by October 2025 (accelerating, with DHL Supply Chain a marquee customer). It raised a $117 million Series F at a roughly $2 billion valuation in 2022 (a point-in-time figure). In April 2026 it launched Locus Array, a mobile-manipulation system extending the line from collaborative picking toward fully autonomous fulfillment. Pick-count and fleet figures are company-reported.

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Partnerships

Every company Locus Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

5 total5 operating1 ended

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1DHL Supply Chain2× joint2 total
  2. 2Nexera Robotics1× joint
  3. 3Staples1× joint3 total
  4. 4United Parcel Service1× joint5 total

Most recent

  1. Locus Robotics acquires Nexera Robotics2026-05-19
    with Nexera Roboticsoperating
  2. Staples x Locus Robotics2023-09-01
    with Staplesoperating
  3. DHL Supply Chain x Locus Robotics (Warehouse Automation)2020-01-01
    with DHL Supply Chainoperating
  4. Locus Robotics - DHL Supply Chain2017-01-01
    with DHL Supply Chainoperating

Locus Robotics on the deployment map

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Relationships

UUnited Parcel ServiceCustomerSStaplesDeployerDDHL Supply ChainDeployerDDHL Supply ChainCustomerNNexera RoboticsCo-developerTTiger Global ManagementInvestorSScale Venture PartnersInvestorLLocus RoboticsCustomer

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Locus Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (3 of 3 resolved claims verified; 3 tracked)
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-06-01
    “Seven billion picks is the cumulative result of thousands of ordinary warehouse shifts where robotics quietly became part of daily fulfillment”

    7B picks confirmed on company blog. "Quietly became part of daily fulfillment" is an honest framing — LocusBots are deployed in production warehouses, not demos. 99.99% picking accuracy, 50-70% labor reduction.

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  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-01-01
    “Locus Robotics Unveils State-of-the-Art Global Headquarters as Company Closes In On 4 Billion Picks Milestone”

    4B picks milestone confirmed. Locus subsequently announced "Seven Billion Picks" (https://locusrobotics.com/blog/seven-billion-picks-warehouse). Growth from 4B to 7B picks is rapid and verified. This is the largest verified warehouse AMR deployment metric in the industry.

    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2025-01-01
    “One Billion Picks — And the Warehouse Robots Behind Them”

    1B picks at DHL alone confirmed. DHL is one of many Locus customers. The trajectory from 1B (2025) to 7B (2026) confirms rapid scaling.

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Current leadership (4)

Founders (4)

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Board (5)

Former / Previously (1)

  • Bruce Welty Founder & former Chairman/CEOsecondary-verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Locus Robotics.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Locus Robotics in third-party press

How Locus Robotics is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges: manipulation

Aug 28, 2026

🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.79

May 24, 2026

Locus Robotics acquires Nexera Robotics for grasping technology

May 19, 2026

Peers

235 peers across 3 segments. Every Locus Robotics 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%

amr(83)

53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%

warehouse amr(8)