What is the Symbotic System deployment at United States?

Symbotic System, built by Symbotic, is recorded as a deployment at United States on the DEPLOY registry. Walmart operates the deployment.

Who operates Symbotic System at United States?

Walmart operates this deployment as a customer of Symbotic, the manufacturer of Symbotic System.

When did the Symbotic System deployment at United States go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2017 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

Have there been incidents at the Symbotic System deployment at United States?

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.

Deployment

Symbotic System at United States

Name: Symbotic System at United States
Start: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: 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 · Operated by Walmart · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

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Walmart has deployed Symbotic's autonomous warehouse robotics system across its US regional distribution center network under a long-term strategic partnership. Symbotic's AI-powered robots handle inbound and outbound case movement, palletizing, and inventory sorting using a high-density automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) with a fleet of mobile robots. A full-scale deployment began at Walmart's Brooksville, Florida DC in 2021 (announced May 2021). In December 2022 Walmart and Symbotic signed a $1.4 billion master services agreement to expand the system to all 42 of Walmart's regional distribution centers, making Walmart the anchor customer for Symbotic's national rollout.

Key facts

Contract value: $1.4B master services agreement (December 2022)
Scale: 42 regional distribution centers across the US
First full-scale DC: Brooksville, Florida (launched 2021)
System: Symbotic AS/RS with mobile robot fleet for case movement and palletizing
Partnership start: 2017

Trust tier: Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Last updated: 2026-06-12
Model: Symbotic System
Company: Symbotic
Location: United States
Operator: Walmart
Status: operational
First seen: 2017-01-01
ID: 0964b465-6e9c-4b70-b022-b85a150f122c

Sources (2)

BusinessWire — Symbotic and Walmart $1.4B strategic agreement to deploy across 42 regional distribution centers (Dec 13, 2022) · https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221213006127/en/Symbotic-and-Walmart-Sign-a-Strategic-Agreement-to-Deploy-and-Host-Symbotic%E2%80%99s-Technology-Across-Walmart%E2%80%99s-Regional-Distribution-Center-Network
BusinessWire — Walmart and Symbotic launch full-scale deployment of autonomous AI-powered robotic technology (May 13, 2021) · https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210513005219/en/Walmart-and-Symbotic-Launch-Full-Scale-Deployment-of-Autonomous-AI-Powered-Robotic-Technology

Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-06-12

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: amr

Sources by quality tier

2: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Common questions

What is the Symbotic System deployment at United States?: Symbotic System, built by Symbotic, is recorded as a deployment at United States on the DEPLOY registry. Walmart operates the deployment.
Who operates Symbotic System at United States?: Walmart operates this deployment as a customer of Symbotic, the manufacturer of Symbotic System.
When did the Symbotic System deployment at United States go live?: The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2017 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the Symbotic System deployment at United States?: 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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