Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.

Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about automation. Derbas talked his way into a meeting with the company and, instead of talking about his views on robots, asked to visit their factories and warehouses.

“We saw how people were working; we zeroed in on flows we could immediately bring value to,” he told TechCrunch. “We showed them that our approach to robotics is different—we’re not trying to solve a single robot problem. We’re trying to autonomously take on the task end to end: It hooks in from one side to a warehouse management system; product goes on trucks on the other side.”

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