Robotic Warehouse Firm Pio Announces Global Expansion

Robotic Warehouse Firm Pio Announces Global Expansion

Robotic warehouse firm Pio announces expanded product line up and global strategic partner network.

Pio, a plug and play warehouse automation solution for smaller companies, has announced its global expansion, in combination with a full product lineup and a network of new strategic partners.

Built on AutoStore technology, Pio’s compact, cube-based robotics system uses smart automation to store and retrieve products with, the company claims, five times the efficiency of manual picking, 99.9% accuracy to eliminate costly fulfillment mistakes, and 99.7% system uptime to support seamless scaling.

With Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) pricing, customers can also reduce picking labour costs by up to 80%. Installations take as little as five days.

Pio now offers four scalable, modular systems: P100: For businesses with fewer than 10,000 monthly orders; P200: For mid-sized operations scaling fulfillment; P400: For high volume fulfillment centres; P600: For larger warehouses needing Pio’s highest capacity.

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“We believe logistics should fuel growth, not limit it,” said Dag Meltveit, Head of Pio. “With Pio we’re making AutoStore accessible for smaller businesses, so they can scale their business without adding workforce or complexity.”

With more than 20 live deployments completed and four more in progress, Pio says that it is growing quickly across retail, ecommerce, and consumer goods sectors. Most customers see a full return on investment in less than 12 months, it states.

“Previously, if I did a big sale, I’d have 700 orders going out. That amount of orders used to take us weeks to fulfill  and that was really scary for me,” said Brian Desind, Founder and CEO at Privada Cigars. 

“Since switching to Pio, our error rate has dropped significantly, and our order speed – well, those 700 orders now take me a couple of days instead of weeks. We didn’t just get faster – we eliminated the risk of losing customers.”

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