CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Boston-based physical AI company building a modular warehouse robotics platform for e-commerce fulfillment and returns. Founded in 2024 by Guy Glass (former Caja Robotics founder, acquired by Fives Group in 2025) and Avihou Barkay (former president of Plus One Robotics). Its plug-and-play UNIT Modular Cube uses palm-sized robots to store and retrieve individual items in as little as 500 sq ft, targeting retailers and 3PLs priced out of traditional warehouse automation
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Fundingsee investors →
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Product
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Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →UNIT AI on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where UNIT AI's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Guy Glass Founder & CEO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Avihou Barkay Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Guy Glasscofounderno longer at company
later founded Caja Robotics
- Avihou Barkaycofounderno longer at company
later founded Plus One Robotics
Safety record
No incidents on record for UNIT AI.
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)
- UNIT AI2 deployments
Recent coverage
UNIT AI in third-party press
Peers
85 peers across 1 segment. Every UNIT AI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
amr(85)
53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%
- 4AG Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 6 River Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Addverbdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aethondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aigendirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (3)
Registry pages whose text names UNIT AI.
Robots and products (1)
People (2)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $12.0M
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.
Funding rounds (1)
- Other2026-07-29
$12M(reported)
Investors: eGateway Capital (follow), Recursive Ventures (follow), Prologis Ventures (co_lead), Dynamo Ventures (co_lead), Ground Up Ventures (co_lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in UNIT AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundOther funding round
2026-07-29Other raising $12000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 2, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
UNIT Modular Cube at Germany, Europe
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
UNIT Modular Cube at United States
Sources (2)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for UNIT AI.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Reeman4 models
- Savoye4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning UNIT AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
UNIT AI Raises 12M to Scale Modular Warehouse Automation
UNIT AI announced 12 million USD in funding co-led by Prologis Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, and Ground Up Ventures, with participation from eGateway Capital, Recursive Ventures,…
UNIT AI raises 12M from Prologis Ventures and sennder-backer Dynamo to modularise warehouse automation
UNIT AI raised 12 million USD co-led by Prologis Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, and Ground Up Ventures to scale its modular warehouse automation platform
UNIT AI Raises 12 Million to Expand AI-Powered Warehouse Automation
UNIT AI announced 12 million USD in funding to accelerate commercial deployments of its modular AI-powered platform for e-commerce fulfillment and returns across North America
UNIT AI Raises 12 Million to Expand AI-Powered Ecommerce Fulfillment Platform
UNIT AI founded by warehouse automation veterans Guy Glass and Avihou Barkay raised 12 million USD to scale its modular e-commerce fulfillment and returns platform
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/unit-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/unit-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/3bd8da4e-945c-45f2-b5b2-571bca8ca7f1
- Revision history: /companies/unit-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Reeman4 models
- Savoye4 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
UNIT AI draws attention at the 70th percentile but verifies reality at the 32nd percentile among AMRs. Hype Gap +38, 16th widest among AMRs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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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 29, 2026