Vecna Robotics

Vecna Robotics is a material handling automation company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, that designs and manufactures autonomous mobile robots for warehouses and manufacturing plants struggling with labor-intensive case picking, pallet moving and line-side delivery. Robots are designed and built in the United States.

The product line includes the Vecna AFL autonomous forklift, the Vecna ATG autonomous tugger, the Vecna CPJ co-bot pallet jack, and the CaseFlow hybrid case-picking system, all coordinated by the Pivotal software suite, which orchestrates tasks between workers and robots and provides fleet monitoring through its Command Center. Customers named on the company site include Shape Corp, FedEx, Geodis, GE, Petco, Caterpillar and Morris & Dickson.

1. Vecna AFL forklift: autonomous forklift with 3,000 lb capacity and 60-inch lift height.

2. Vecna ATG tugger: autonomous tugger rated to pull loads up to 10,000 lb.

3. Vecna CPJ pallet jack: co-bot pallet jack for shared human-robot handling, 3,300 lb capacity.

4. CaseFlow picking: hybrid case-picking workflow pairing workers with the CPJ pallet jack.

5. Pivotal software suite: orchestrates tasks across the robot fleet and human workers in real time.

6. Command Center monitoring: gives 24/7 fleet visibility and remote teleoperations support.