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Andrew Meyer
Andrew (AJ) Meyer is the founder and CEO of Pickle Robot Company, a Boston-area startup building Physical AI robots that autonomously unload trucks. An MIT-trained engineer and serial founder, he watched fifteen people unload trailers on a freezing UPS night shift in 2018 and decided robots should do that job. Pickle's one-armed machines now pick boxes up to 50 pounds at speeds reaching 1,500 boxes an hour for customers like UPS and Yusen Logistics. In late 2024 the company closed a $50 million Series B, bringing total funding past $114 million.
Pickle Robot Company
Pickle Robot Company builds Physical AI systems that autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers of non-palletized goods at human-scale or better. Founded in 2018 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pickle pairs a multi-camera vision system with generative AI foundation models trained on millions of real warehouse data points, mounting a KUKA arm on a custom mobile base that drives into a trailer and clears it in roughly 90 minutes. The company is on a mission to automate inbound and outbound work at one million warehouse doors over the next decade.