Atlantic Grupa to use Gideon Brothers' autonomous logistics robots

Croatian AI and robotics startup Gideon Brothers has announced a partnership with Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company Atlantic Grupa. The project sees Gideon Brothers' logistics robots, which are fully autonomous due to advanced visual-perception machine vision technology, deployed in Atlantic Grupa's new logistics distribution centre.

This roll-out will bring a new level of automation of Atlantic's distribution facility, aiming for seamless integration into the warehouse management system. Working towards this end, Gideon Brothers will work alongside Symphony RetailAI, the company providing Atlantic Grupa's Warehouse Management software.

Atlantic Grupa’s new facility in Velika Gorica, Croatia, features paperless warehouse operations and is powered by a modern warehouse management system which allows for optimised storage organisation, entirely digitised entrance management, goods commissioning and dispatching, as well as vehicle management.

Gideon Brothers’ fully autonomous robots have a pallet-carrier load and lift capacity of 800 kilograms. The pilot project will use the “swarm me” use-case, where robots move between two points using the most efficient route.

“This is, without doubt, advanced technology as we see numerous advantages from its implementation. The first is, of course, the rising effectiveness. The second is relieving the lack of workers, which affects not only tourism and manufacturing but distribution as well. In fact, we are busting the myth of robots taking over jobs. The true story is the collaboration between people and robots, where repetitive tasks are being taken over by robots, as people are allowed to focus on more creative work and supervision, raising the workers’ satisfaction as well as contributing to higher efficiency,” explained Mladen Pejkovic, senior executive director for ICT of Atlantic Grupa.

Matija Kopic, CEO and co-founder of Gideon Brothers, commented: “Our Advanced Visual Perception technology is raising the bar of what autonomous robots can do in real warehouses and manufacturing environments which are highly dynamic and constantly changing. We bring true change to the industrial material handling, relieving people from repetitive, difficult and dangerous tasks, as their potential we can now be applied to high value-added tasks.”

Atlantic Grupa opened its new logistics and distribution centre, worth €20m, in late March.

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