Company
About Us
Plus One Robotics supports the mission of 'always-on' logistics with the fastest and most reliable parcel handling robotics platform in the world.
“Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics.”
Founded in 2016 by computer vision and robotics industry experts, Plus One’s intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for leading logistics and ecommerce organizations in the Global 100.
Leadership
The Team Behind the Tech
Our leadership team brings decades of combined experience in robotics, computer vision, and enterprise logistics.
Erik Nieves
CEO & Co-founder
Shaun Edwards
CTO & Co-founder
Peter Pixton
CFO
Christina Gomez-Terry
Vice President of Operations
Ryan Hannon
Director of Customer Excellence
Faith Hinchman
HR Generalist
Our Journey
We've Been Laying the Groundwork Over the Past Decade
From ROS-Industrial research to 1 billion+ production picks, our story is one of persistent innovation.
Erik Nieves, as Technology Director for Yaskawa Motoman Robotics, maps robotics development horsepower in the Americas and identifies ROS as an emerging force.
Shaun Edwards develops software for the first industrial robot controlled with the simple_message protocol at Willow Garage, which later becomes ROS-Industrial.
Shaun launches the ROS-Industrial repository, and Paul Hvass launches the ROS-I Consortium at SwRI.
ROS-I emerges at the Automate Conference in Chicago with a 3D vision-driven robotic picking demo. Erik becomes the Yaskawa Motoman Consortium representative.
Shaun leads a parcel singulation research project. Erik participates with NASA on RROXITT for remote human-in-the-loop satellite servicing.
Paul and Shaun develop the PickOne Perception System. Yaskawa sponsors three teams at the Amazon Picking Challenge in Seattle.
Erik founds Plus One Robotics Inc. Shaun Edwards joins as co-founder. The journey begins.
Plus One begins evangelizing supervised autonomy. Shaun participates in the winning DMDII proposal resulting in the ARM Institute.
PickOne v1.0 released. CheckOne deploys at its first fulfillment center. Plus One emerges from stealth mode.
Yonder deploys and the first Crew Chief goes on duty. The Quick Deployment Kit launches.
First robots deployed at FedEx Memphis Hub. Named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups.
First robots deployed in the EU. Series B funding raised. Netherlands office opens. Erik named to the board of the RIA.
Successful pilot at DHL USA, expanding the company's footprint in global logistics.
Passed 1 Billion lifetime picks across all deployed robots. ICC robot gripper released for parcel handling applications.
Recognition
Awards & Achievements
SUPPLYTECH Breakthrough Award — Overall Robotics Company of the Year
2024
The Information 50 Most Promising Startups
2020
Customer Value Leadership Award — Frost & Sullivan
2020
Best Company to Work For — San Antonio Business Journal
2020
Memberships
Industry Organizations
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