AmbiRobotics

Ambi Robotics is an AI and robotics company developing advanced solutions that scale ecommerce operations to meet demand while empowering humans to work smarter

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Our mission goes beyond building good tech. And this - is just the beginning.

#handlemore

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Now running on 30% of our nationwide AmbiSort fleet, the AmbiOS Agentic Robotics Harness is being applied to a number of other production problems and accelerating performance improvements for our customers.

Read the research: https://t.co/hs5cclvo64

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

Here's how cloud agents are improving production robot performance today.

(Side note: I love these @AmbiRobotics blog posts. Ambi is one of the few production robotics companies willing to go deep on its technical work in public.)

One problem that Ambi noticed for their sorting robots is that some packages barely fit the bag opening. Deformable shapes or sensor noise can cause the robot to misjudge the package size, so it can place them in the wrong orientation. This means the package doesn't fit, the task fails, and the system has to retry. Ambi estimates that this costs about 31,000 sorts per year.

Obviously, solving these failure modes is highly attractive; reducing 31,000 extra sorts creates significant value through faster throughput. Unfortunately, engineers still need weeks to analyze failures, propose fixes, and test them.

Instead, if Ambi can plug AI coding agents into the loop, they can iterate much faster.

So they built the AmbiOS Agentic Robotics Harness. The agents don't solve the problem by writing arbitrary code. Instead, they can edit a bounded computation graph composed of existing robot skills. This means the agents can move quickly while still keeping safety checks and error handling intact.

The harness gives the agents two key pieces of infrastructure:

1) A cloud dataset of real production events, filterable by known success and failure modes
2) A simulator that replays those events with the agent's proposed changes

So the agents pull failures → hypothesize → edit the skill graph → test in sim → ship to a production A/B test.

In their experiment, these agents proposed three candidate fixes in just 10 hours. Of the three, one added 4.2 packages per hour, about 15k more sorts per robot per year, and now runs on 30% of Ambi's U.S. fleet.

I love how simple yet powerful this harness is. I think every robotics company with robotics in production should strive to accomplish such a loop.

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The Agentic Robotics solution is now deployed across 30% of Ambi Robotics’ U.S. fleet, including systems operating for a Fortune 50 package shipping company.

Keep reading: https://t.co/hs5cclvo64

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Industrial robots are getting AI agents.

To our knowledge, this is the first time Agentic Robotics has solved a real production problem: https://t.co/hs5cclvo64

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AmbiOS Agentic Robotics Harness architecture for performance improvements on real production robots.

Read the research: https://t.co/hs5cclvo64

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It was an honor to host Berkeley Mayor @adenaishii at Ambi HQ!

Ambi was born from breakthrough research in @Ken_Goldberg's #AUTOLAB at @UCBerkeley. Today, our robotic fleet operates across the country’s most demanding logistics operations, helping Robot Operators #HandleMore.

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

What does it take to build a robust harness for a robot foundation model?

A foundation model takes in images or video, sometimes with language instructions, and outputs robot actions.

The model is a black box, and you can't guarantee its output is safe to run on real hardware. That's why the harness is important. It conditions what goes into the model, then checks and sometimes modifies what comes out, so the robot can act safely, reliably, and quickly.

In conversation with @jmahl42 on the latest Scaling Robotics episode, we walked through PRIME-1 by @AmbiRobotics , a foundation model for picking.

PRIME-1 takes in images and outputs a pick action, roughly an end-effector pose. The harness takes it from there:

→ Builds the full motion plan from that pose and optimizes it for speed
→ Checks that the robot stays in bounds and won't collide with anything
→ Throws out actions that fail those checks
→ Knows when to stop and hand a problem to a person

The human-in-the-loop makes the system robust to edge cases. When a pick fails, it's not always optimal to send the problem back to the model. Sometimes the harness needs logic to exit the AI loop and bring in a human.

Models predict what to do, and the harness dictates what the robot actually does. Harnesses are how we will get foundation models from demos to production!

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

Here's how @AmbiRobotics thinks about deploying robots into existing warehouse systems.

1) Keep integrations simple

A robot shouldn't need ten pieces of information from upstream systems at ten different moments just to function. Whatever touchpoints are put in place need to be small and well-defined.

This allows a robot to unlock generality.

2) Rate matching

Warehouses run at a cadence. Items get picked at a rate; boxes move at a rate. If your robot is too fast or too slow, the rest of the system is out of whack.

Ambi often connects to sorters, the big conveyor systems that carry packages across a room and divert them down slides. If a burst comes in faster than the robot can handle, that's a problem for the entire line. To solve for this, they introduced buffering

3) Design around line conditions

Ambi has a blue bin they cart around next to AmbiSort. This is sometimes odd to customers, who ask if they can just connect it to the conveyor. But at deployment, bins are more optimal.

The bin decouples the robot from the line. They can put the robot anywhere in the building, fill a bunch of bins, queue the work, and run it when ready. This builds in the buffer that makes rate matching possible.

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In conversation with @jmahl42 in the latest episode of Scaling Robotics!

[Inbound Logistics @ILMagazine]

Warehouse robots are getting a lot more capable and collaborative. Our latest feature covers where robotics and Physical AI are headed across the warehouse floor:

🤖 @amazon's next-gen #AmazonProteus now takes natural language commands and is headed to European fulfillment centers in 2027.

🤝 ShipLab is rolling out @RobustAI's Carter cobots in phases, only paying once performance targets are met at each stage.

🔗 @AmbiRobotics and @pickle_robot integrated their systems for a continuous dock-to-warehouse workflow, a glimpse at what interoperable automation looks like.

🥶 @CorvusRobotics launched drones built for cycle counts in sub-zero cold storage. @kroger's already using them in live freezer ops.

🦾 @Accenture, @VodafoneGroup Procure & Connect, and @SAP piloted humanoid robots doing autonomous facility inspections in Germany.

Plus new safety sensors, higher-payload robotic arms, and more.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/1lACDYm2B8

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

I've enjoyed getting to know Jeff because I love his balanced approach to building and deploying Physical AI systems.

On one hand, he is a pragmatic technologist. @AmbiRobotics has deployed 100+ robots that do real work for some of the world's biggest logistics operations.

On the other, he's a PhD from @UCBerkeley, and his team's academic roots mean they're constantly pushing the frontier of end-to-end models.

The result is a harmony of both rapid deployments and rapid progress on Ambi's autonomy stack.

More companies and leaders should operate like this, and I'd encourage you to check out this episode with Jeff, out now.

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Get all the details on CARGO: https://t.co/gWtvTN3AvC

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What problem does CARGO solve?
Industrial stacking is like 3D Tetris with random packages arriving continuously. CARGO plans several steps ahead because every placement changes what becomes possible next.

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What does CARGO unlock?
Every completed stack adds production data to AmbiOS, improving future models and expanding Physical AI reasoning to more packages, materials, and industrial tasks.

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What does CARGO do?
CARGO is an agentic Physical AI reasoning model that decides which package to stack next and where to place it, optimizing each action for a denser completed stack.

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Questions? Answered.

Here's what you need to know about CARGO:

[Jeff Mahler @jmahl42]

Excited to share our Physical AI reasoning model for item stacking, CARGO!

CARGO is trained with sim-to-real reinforcement learning to plan high-level actions, such as which item to pick next and where to place it, in order to maximize packing density on real-world robots.

CARGO is already deployed to robots in customer operations, building stacks at over 72.5% density at over 340 sorts per hour.

Read more in our technical blog: https://t.co/6dIuD9pHWC

#HandleMore

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

Another harness for a learned robotic policy in production. We've seen a lot of cool demos of these policies in the last 10 days. The thing that companies are trying to solve is how to deploy them in production.

@AmbiRobotics CARGO is one such answer.

CARGO is a planning model. It decides which box to stack next and where to place it, so the container fills as densely as possible. The picking and placing are handled by manipulation skills that already exist in Ambi's capabilities. CARGO is the director that tells the manipulation what to do.

We've seen other companies pair a learned manipulation policy with classical controls as a safety harness. Ambi moves the learned policy up a layer. Here it does the planning, and the harness keeps that planning physically grounded.

CARGO only gets to choose from placements that are already deemed "feasible", meaning they are collision-free, stable, and executable given the real limitations of the hardware. It can't propose a more optimal solution that the robot can't physically reach, or one that would topple the stack.

Whether the learned policy is for manipulation, planning, or both, there is a clear trend of classical harnesses being used to ensure movements are safe and physically grounded.

@ambi

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Introducing CARGO: an agentic Physical AI model for robotic stacking, trained with Sim2Real RL.

Already deployed in customer operations, delivering production-grade density, speed, and reliability.

Read the research: https://t.co/JPcE9gCh7f