“Unloading trailers is a particularly challenging autonomy problem due to demanding operating environments, high throughput requirements, unknown load patterns, and the vehicles needing to be robust to frequent shocks and vibrations,” said Peter Anderson-Sprecher, Co-Founder & CEO of Fox Robotics. “The key to our success to-date has been our ability to deploy our solutions to customers and rapidly learn and improve in live production environments”

Fox Robotics develops, manufactures, and sells what it says is the world’s first intelligent autonomous forklift trailer unloader. Fox can reduce forklift operating costs by up to 2x and aims to automate 20% of the 1.5 million forklifts sold annually (a $7.5 billion market). Fox is headed by Peter Anderson-Sprecher, who built robots and led robotic teams at Google Robotics, Google X, Carnegie Mellon, General Dynamics, MIT, Georgia Tech, and KUKA.