The platform
Neocortex is the operating system for warehouse automation
A warehouse management system decides what work needs to be done. It does not know how to do it. Neocortex is the layer that turns that instruction into physical action.
Perceives
Vision and sensing identify products, pallets and conditions as they actually are — not as a fixed program assumes.
Decides
The system plans the sequence of physical actions required to complete the task in front of it.
Acts
Motion control drives commercially available industrial robots through that sequence in real time.
Learns
Every cycle feeds back. Handling improves with exposure rather than reprogramming.
Capability
Built to absorb variability
Most automation fails when the world stops matching the program. Neocortex is built the other way round: it handles the mix, the damage, the odd shape and the unexpected orientation, because it is looking at what is really there.
- Object types
- nearly all
- Pick from
- any container
- Put to
- cartons, totes, conveyor, fixtures
- Handling speed
- up to 1,440 per hour
- Robot brands
- Yaskawa, FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Kawasaki
- Sensors
- agnostic
Integration
It has to talk to everything you already run
A robot that cannot tell your systems what it did is a robot you cannot trust. Neocortex is built to sit inside the control and data environment you already have.
WMS and WCS
Takes work from your warehouse management system and warehouse control system, and reports back what was picked, inspected, sorted or stacked.
PLC and automated controls
We do our own PLC programming and controls integration, so the machine controls and the software are one job, not two.
Inventory data
Every cycle produces a record. Results write to SQL and inventory databases so counts, grades and exceptions are queryable, not anecdotal.
Machine vision and learning
Machine vision drives inspection and identification; machine learning improves handling with exposure rather than reprogramming.
Why it installs quickly
We own the whole stack
Perception, planning, motion control and learning were all built by our own engineering team rather than assembled from third-party frameworks. Nothing in the system carries overhead we did not choose — which is why it runs on ordinary hardware, costs less, and drops into a building that never stops working.
Hardware agnostic
Your customers buy the robots on the open market. Every advance in industrial robotics makes the software more capable at no cost to you.
Real-time reactive control
Not a pre-programmed path. The system responds to what the sensors report, cycle by cycle.
Brownfield by design
Built for the warehouse that already exists, with the racking, the traffic and the constraints it already has.
Delivered as a service
Robotics as a Service: you buy the robots, we license the intelligence monthly. Warehouse automation without a capital project.
Priced against labour
The fee is set against the cost of the work it replaces, so the system is intended to pay for itself from the day it is switched on.