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LocusBot at Columbus

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.

LocusBot by Locus Robotics · Operated by Locus Robotics · Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified · Warehouse & Logistics Robotics

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Footage

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Locus Robotics

Locus Robotics' explanation of how its fulfillment robots work. LocusBots operate collaboratively with human pickers inside a mapped warehouse; fleet-coordinated and facility-bounded.

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Locus Robotics

Official Locus Robotics video demonstrating LocusBots working collaboratively with warehouse associates to achieve 3-5x productivity increases. The robots minimize walking time by autonomously transporting pick totes to workers at goods-to-person stations.

DHL Supply Chain deployed Locus Robotics LocusBots at its Canal Winchester and Lockbourne, Ohio fulfillment centers in September 2022 to support high-volume order picking for Carhartt workwear. Both facilities are in the Columbus, Ohio metro area. The deployment expanded an existing DHL/Locus partnership that began in 2017; by this announcement DHL was the largest Locus Robotics customer globally. The partnership subsequently expanded to a landmark 5,000-unit Locus Origin deal covering DHL's global warehouse network. DHL Supply Chain has completed over 1 billion picks with LocusBots.

Key facts

Facilities
Canal Winchester, Ohio and Lockbourne, Ohio (both Columbus metro)
Customer
Carhartt workwear (DHL operates the warehouse on behalf of Carhartt)
Partnership start
2017 (DHL/Locus original partnership)
Scale milestone
DHL became Locus's largest global customer; 1 billion+ picks with LocusBots

Safety record

No incidents on record for LocusBot at Columbus.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier
Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-10
Model
LocusBot
Company
Locus Robotics
Location
United States/Ohio/Columbus
Operator
Locus Robotics
Status
operational
Operator type
customer deployed
First seen
2022-09-01
ID
51ea991f-d444-4c2d-87b2-1b7ae87e1a21

Timeline

  1. Sep 2022
    First recorded
    LocusBot first documented operating at Columbus.
  2. Jun 2026
    created
  3. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

Claimed vs. verified

Locus Robotics claims 6,000 LocusBot units in the field. DEPLOY has independently verified 6 deployment sites.

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LocusBot operates in Columbus. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (3)

  1. https://locusrobotics.com/
  2. DHL Supply Chain Expands Partnership With Locus Robotics, Deploying High-Productivity Robotics Automation at Two New Warehouse Sites (Canal Winchester + Lockbourne Ohio; Carhartt) · https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dhl-supply-chain-expands-partnership-with-locus-robotics-deploying-high-productivity-robotics-automation-at-two-new-warehouse-sites-301633735.html · 2022-09-29
  3. DHL Supply Chain deepens robotics partnership ahead of peak season · https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/dhl-locus-robotics-partnership-fulfillment-carhartt/632760/ · 2022-09-29
Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-10

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: amr

Sources by quality tier

3
unclassified
Unclassified source

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Common questions

What is the LocusBot deployment at Columbus?
LocusBot, built by Locus Robotics, is recorded as a deployment at Columbus on the DEPLOY registry. Locus Robotics operates the deployment directly.
Who operates LocusBot at Columbus?
Locus Robotics, the manufacturer of LocusBot, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
When did the LocusBot deployment at Columbus go live?
The deployment is recorded as starting September 1, 2022 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the LocusBot deployment at Columbus?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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