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Nine systems · 32 cited sources
Storage and retrieval
Each and case pick ASRS. The dividing line is whether the architecture makes you dig for inventory to reach it.
Cube storage: bins stacked in an aluminium grid, with robots driving across the top and lifting bins out vertically.
Open aisles instead of a cube. Any robot reaches any bin directly, so there is nothing to dig through.
See the side-by-sideRobots that drive on the floor and then climb the face of a rack to retrieve bins, feeding fixed goods-to-person workstations.
Comparable architecture, heavier bins, and a materially shorter path to going live.
See the side-by-sideMobile robots with a picking arm that drive into standard warehouse aisles, retrieve totes, and pick items out of them robotically — plus Gridpicker, a newer grid-mounted version, and the Intuition software that runs the fleet.
Bring the bin to a person who picks at four to five times manual rate, and be running in 4 to 8 weeks instead of 4 to 7 months.
See the side-by-sideAutonomous forklifts
Autonomous pallet handling. The dividing lines are payload, whether there is a reach or narrow-aisle truck in the range, and who carries the risk.
Autonomous counterbalance forklifts, tuggers and a co-bot pallet jack, with a case-picking orchestration layer called CaseFlow on top.
VisionNav vehicles across seven categories, wrapped in a RaaS contract where payment starts after the system performs.
See the side-by-sideVision-guided lift AMRs and tow tractors — the Lift RS1, the higher-reaching Lift CR1, and the S7 tow tractor.
Heavier trucks, a broader vehicle range, and a shorter wait — on a contract where payment starts after performance.
See the side-by-sideThe TWA Reach line — autonomous reach forklifts with a shared-autonomy model that lets a remote operator take over when the robot is unsure.
A broader vehicle range and published vehicle specifications, on the same RaaS commercial shape.
See the side-by-sideDriveMod — an autonomy kit fitted to partner-OEM chassis, sold as an autonomous forklift on a BYD base and an autonomous tugger, through a dealer network.
Purpose-built vehicles rather than a retrofit kit, with the vendor risk carried by RAMS rather than by you.
See the side-by-sideTrailer loading and unloading
Dock automation. The dividing line is whether the trailer is worked pallet by pallet or moved as a single load.
The FoxBot — an autonomy package fitted to a standard three-wheel electric counterbalance forklift, built for one job: loading and unloading trailers at the dock.
A full trailer moved as one load rather than pallet by pallet — plus RaaS forklifts for everything past the dock.
See the side-by-sideTrey — an autonomous forklift built specifically for trailer loading and unloading, in medium- and heavy-duty variants.
The trailer as one cycle instead of 25 pallet moves an hour, backed by a full vehicle range past the dock.
See the side-by-sideSlipBots — robotic load platforms that drive into a trailer carrying the freight, so the trailer is loaded or unloaded in one movement.
The same one-cycle principle, with the mechanism fixed at your dock rather than riding in every trailer.
See the side-by-sideHow long until it is actually running?
This is the one number almost everyone in the category publishes, which makes it the only clean like-for-like comparison available. Every figure below is the vendor’s own, from the page linked on their comparison.
NEO goes in fast for a structural reason, not a scheduling one: there is no grid to build and no precision floor work to wait on. Bars are scaled to 30 weeks. Where a vendor publishes a range, the bar shows the top of it.
How these comparisons are built
- Every figure attributed to another company comes from that company’s own published material, and the source is linked at the bottom of each page.
- Where a competitor does not publish a figure, we say so rather than estimating one.
- Every page has a "where they win" section written in earnest. If a competitor is the right answer for your operation, we would rather tell you before the deposit than after.
- Figures for RAMS systems are our own claims and are marked as such. We will substantiate any of them on a call.