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MANIPULATOR · LOGISTICS YEAR · 2024 STATUS · DEPLOYED

CrateHand v3

A 7-DOF manipulator with sensorized fingertips that picks heterogeneous SKUs out of mixed totes at human-equivalent throughput — and improves over time.

// THE BRIEF

The challenge.

A regional 3PL handling 40,000 SKUs needed a bin-picking solution. Existing systems on the market struggled with deformable items, glossy packaging, and sub-second cycle requirements. They also couldn't be retrained without vendor visits.

// THE APPROACH

What we built.

CrateHand v3 combines a custom 7-DOF arm, optical-tactile fingertip sensors, and a vision-language-action policy that grasps from natural-language item descriptions. It self-improves: every successful pick augments the on-device dataset, every failure is reviewed overnight and pushed as a model update.

// THE OUTCOME

Field results.

Three months post-deployment, throughput is 1,140 picks/hour with a 99.4% success rate across the full SKU range. The system has retrained itself for 3 new product categories without engineering involvement. ROI broke even in month 5.

// SPEC SHEET

Technical profile.

Degrees of Freedom
7 (arm) + 2 (gripper)
Reach
1.05 m
Payload
3 kg
Cycle Time
~3.2 s avg pick-to-place
Vision
Stereo RGB-D · in-gripper macro camera
Tactile
256-taxel optical-tactile fingertips
Policy
VLA model · on-device · OTA-updated
Throughput
1,140 picks/hour

Need CrateHand v3 for your operation?

Most of our deployments start as a conversation. Tell us about the environment, and we'll tell you whether this is the right platform — or what to build instead.