# Anyware Robotics

> Anyware Robotics is a Fremont, California startup building deployable physical AI for industrial work. Its first product, Pixmo, is a mobile robot that drives into a shipping container or trailer and unloads boxes - up to about 1,000 cases per hour - using a force-sensing collaborative arm and an AI stack the company calls AnywareOS. Founded in 2023 by former UC Berkeley researchers and FANUC engineers, the company aims to take over the back-breaking jobs that warehouses can no longer reliably staff.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Fremont, California, United States
- **Founders:** Thomas Tang (CEO & Co-Founder), Bruce Fan (CTO & Co-Founder), Sam Zhou (Chief Engineer & Co-Founder), Torsten Schreiber (VP of Product & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~36
- **Products:** Pixmo, AnywareOS
- **Notable:** MHI Best Innovation Award winner at ProMat 2025, MHI Best Innovation Award winner at MODEX 2026, Emerged from stealth February 2024 with the Pixmo platform

## Products & services

- **Pixmo** — Multi-purpose mobile robot with a force-sensing collaborative arm, AMR base, vacuum end effector and AI perception. Built for container/trailer unloading, palletizing, depalletizing, case picking, machine tending and loading. Up to about 1,000 boxes/hour with conveyor add-on; handles boxes up to 65 lb.
- **AnywareOS** — The intelligence layer that drives Pixmo - perception, motion planning, and autonomous decision-making for messy, unstructured industrial settings, with over-the-air updates.

## Achievements

- MHI Best Innovation Award winner at ProMat 2025
- MHI Best Innovation Award winner at MODEX 2026
- Emerged from stealth February 2024 with the Pixmo platform
- Closed $12M seed and entered commercial deployment in March 2025
- Featured in IEEE Spectrum for its force-sensing approach to trailer unloading

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Won MHI Best Innovation Award at MODEX 2026.
- **2025-03** — Closed $12M seed round led by GFT Ventures; began commercial deployments of Pixmo.
- **2024-02** — Emerged from stealth, revealing Pixmo for container and truck unloading.
- **2023-01** — Company founded in the San Francisco Bay Area.

## Links

- Website: https://anyware-robotics.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anyware-robotics

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Last updated: 2026-06-29