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Locus Origin

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About Locus Origin

Locus Origin is a collaborative autonomous mobile robot developed by Locus Robotics for warehouse order fulfilment. It travels between pick locations carrying totes, bins or shipping cartons while associates select and confirm items through an iPad interface. Configurable shelving supports different order profiles, and the robot carries up to 36 kg. Its multi-sensor navigation allows movement through existing warehouse aisles among workers and equipment.

LocusONE coordinates Origin fleets with warehouse-management systems and interleaves picking with putaway, replenishment, returns and transport. The tablet provides instructions in more than 40 languages. Origin supports opportunity charging, with a stated runtime of up to 14 hours and an approximately 50-minute charge time. The commercially deployed platform is supplied through Robots-as-a-Service subscriptions, allowing operators to change fleet size for seasonal demand and combine Origin with heavier-load Vector robots and autonomous Array systems.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Autonomous navigation
  • Workflows: Warehouse material handling
  • Operating environments: Warehouse environment
  • Target markets: Warehouse operators and fulfillment centers deploying AMR fleets for order picking support.
  • Deployment model: Commercial AMR platform from a leading warehouse robotics company.
  • Warehouse fulfillment

    Customer-site use - Carry order containers during picking at Ulta Beauty distribution centres, with associates selecting the items. - environment: Ulta Beauty distribution centres

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  • Warehouse fulfillment

    Pilot - 2026-06-23 - Locus Robotics helps HelloFresh expand chilled fulfillment AMR deployment

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Operations

  • Production Rate

    70-75 lines/hour - 2025-11-05 - S&S Activewear - warehouse fulfillment - Locus reports S&S Activewear’s Vaughan site rose from 48 lines/hour to 70-75 lines/hour after deployment.

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  • Reported Output

    over 500 million picks - 2024-05-18 - DHL Supply Chain - warehouse fulfillment - DHL Supply Chain reported more than 500 million picks using Locus Robotics AMRs.

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Deployments

  • Commercial Activity

    10 facilities - 2025-11-05 - S&S Activewear - warehouse fulfillment - Locus reports S&S Activewear runs Locus robots in 10 facilities across the U.S. and Canada.

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  • Operating Use

    10 million units picked - 2024-12-05 - GEODIS - warehouse fulfillment - Locus Robotics and GEODIS reached 10 million units picked at the Carlisle distribution site.

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  • Commercial Activity

    more than 35 sites - 2024-06-14 - DHL Supply Chain - warehouse fulfillment - DHL Supply Chain said it used Locus Robotics AMRs across more than 35 sites worldwide.

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  • Customer Site

    Locus AMRs deployed at John Lewis Milton Keynes distribution centre - 2024-03-18 - John Lewis - warehouse fulfillment - Locus Robotics and John Lewis announced an AMR deployment at the Milton Keynes distribution centre.

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  • Customer Site

    1 Mexico site - 2024-03-11 - GEODIS - warehouse fulfillment - Locus Robotics and GEODIS implemented Locus Origin bots at GEODIS Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico for ecommerce and retail fulfillment.

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Resources

Curated durable documents and official technical references.

Timeline

  • Locus Robotics helps HelloFresh expand chilled fulfillment AMR deployment

    2026-06-23 - Deployment - The fleet expanded from 13 pilot robots to 39 modified Origin AMRs. Robots worked in refrigerated environments supporting the Factor brand. The system combined LocusONE orchestration with configurations adapted to cold-storage work.

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  • Locus Robotics reaches seven-billion-pick AMR milestone

    2026-03-02 - Market Signal - The milestone arrived approximately four and a half months after six billion picks. Cumulative activity spanned hundreds of fulfilment sites across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Most picks came from collaborative person-to-goods workflows using Origin and Vector.

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Context

Market context

Locus Origin is Locus Robotics collaborative AMR for high-volume order fulfillment in warehouse and distribution environments.

  • Target environment: Warehouses, distribution centers and e-commerce fulfillment facilities.
  • Workflow context: Collaborative order fulfillment, item picking support and warehouse material transport alongside human operators.
  • Customer context: Warehouse operators and fulfillment centers deploying AMR fleets for order picking support.
  • Deployment model: Commercial AMR platform from a leading warehouse robotics company.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercially established AMR platform with broad multi-site warehouse adoption.
  • Adoption constraints: Designed for collaborative order fulfillment workflows. Best suited to environments with defined picking paths and item locations.
  • Market position: A core collaborative AMR platform for high-volume warehouse fulfillment. Part of Locus Robotics broader order-fulfillment ecosystem.
  • Adjacent products: PUDU T150, TRACER 2.0, warehouse AMRs

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