Deployment
Symbotic System at United States
Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) is a warehouse-automation company (Wilmington, Massachusetts; founder Rick Cohen) whose system combines fleets of SymBot autonomous mobile robots, vision-guided robotic arms, and a fixed storage structure, orchestrated by AI software to perform end-to-end case handling (depalletization, storage, palletization). It is the most heavily verified entity in the AMR cohort: SEC filings confirm a roughly $22.5 billion backlog, that Walmart accounts for about 85.6% of a recent quarter's revenue, and deployment across dozens of Walmart regional distribution centers, with additional customers including Albertsons, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Target, and the SoftBank GreenBox joint venture.
In January 2025 (not 2026, correcting the dispatch) Symbotic acquired Walmart's Advanced Systems and Robotics business for $200 million plus up to $350 million contingent, alongside a separate $520 million Walmart-funded program for 400 Accelerated Pickup and Delivery systems. Maturity is commercial; it is a system rather than a single roaming robot.
Symbotic System by Symbotic · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Warehouse & Logistics Robotics
Recent coverage
- Symbotic announces acquisition of ARMS InnovationsModern Materials Handling · 2026-07-02
- Symbotic announces acquisition of ARMS InnovationsBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-07-02
- Walmart and Symbotic Expand PartnershipBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-05-15
Symbotic AI-powered robotics platform deployed across all 42 Walmart regional distribution centers in the US. By end of 2026, 65% of Walmart DCs expected running Symbotic systems. Also expanding to Walmart Accelerated Pickup and Delivery centers. Symbotic acquiring Walmart advanced systems and robotics business.
Key facts
- Customer
- Walmart
- DCs
- 42 regional distribution centers
- 2026 coverage
- 65% of DCs expected automated
- Expansion
- APD centers (hundreds of stores)
Exposure
- Customer segment
- retail
- Scale tier
- fleet 1000 plus
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Symbotic System at United States.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-14
- Model
- Symbotic System
- Company
- Symbotic
- Location
- United States
- Operator
- Symbotic
- Status
- scaled
- Operator type
- customer deployed
- Site environment
- indoor
- ID
1fd7b0bd-9906-4ee8-b330-362c2d03bdf4
Timeline
- Aug 2026Current status: scaled, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
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Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-14
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-14
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: amr
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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- Markdown mirror: /deployments/symbotic-walmart-dc-national.md
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- REST API: /v1/robots/1fd7b0bd-9906-4ee8-b330-362c2d03bdf4
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