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February 4, 2020

Robots can finally pack objects like a human

Polish startup Nomagic has raised $8.6m for its warehouse robots automating the role of human "pickers" – something that only recently became possible.


Kim Darrah

3 min read

Kacper Nowicki, Marek Cygan and Tristan d’Orgeval

For all the breakthroughs in automation, there is one task that has long eluded robots — picking items up out of a box.    

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Nomagic's robots can pick up any object even if they have never come across it before.
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