Software and services provider PickNik Robotics leverages commercial and open source software, including Robot Operating, to provide its customers with advanced motion control and manipulation solutions.

By Dan Kara | December 22, 2020

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Founder Dave Coleman (Co-Founder and CEO)

Funding Status Picknik Robotics is self funded at this time.

PickNik Robotics offers a suite of software libraries to make robotic manipulation more capable, including open source and commercially licensed technologies.

Primary Target Markets Defense / Security, Healthcare / Medical, Logistics / Supply Chain

Technology / Product / Service(s) PickNik Robotics offers a suite of software libraries to make robotic manipulation more capable, including open source and commercially licensed technologies.

Value Proposition As robots move out of the carefully arranged factories and more into unstructured, collaborative environments, it becomes harder and harder to understand the systems limitations and rigorously test every corner case. PickNik Robotics increases their customers confidence in selling or deploying robotics automation by providing a fall back mechanism that serves as a stop-gap while whatever root issue is addressed or software improved to their robotics system.

Demand Drivers PickNik Robotics save their customers money by increasing the uptime of their system, which results in better cycle time, increased output, and/or happier customers. The company also enables robotic minimally viable products (MVPs) to be rolled out sooner, because the MoveIt Studio solution can be dropped in and enable a suite of instant functionality. On-demand, remote assistance from a call center affords all these benefits at a fraction of the price of keeping troubleshooters on-site at each location for low-frequency intervention.

PickNik Robotics has had commercial contracts with approximately 50 companies to date, and many collaborative partnerships in the open source community.

Business Model A freemium (open source) model has already gained 1,000s of non-paying users of PickNik Robotics MoveIt software. Many of these users are at leading robotics companies. PickNik Robotics current monetization strategy is selling engineering services and support. They have already begun selling software licenses as a premium upgrade. Some of the licenses are per-robot seat, non-recurring. Others are based on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) monthly subscription model.

Partners PickNik Robotics has had commercial contracts with approximately 50 companies to date, and many collaborative partnerships in the open source community. Our partners include Amazon, Microsoft, Open Robotics, Intel, Hello Robot, Motive Mechatronics, and AppliedLogix.

Customers AppliedLogix, Rapyuta Robotics, Tethers Unlimited, Realtime Robotics, Numurus, and Franka Emika. The company has additional customers which prefer to remain anonymous.

Competitive Landscape Energid

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