Sherpa Mecha
About
About Sherpa Mecha
Sherpa Mecha is Ati Robotics' wheeled dual-arm platform for industrial material handling and machine tending. Its extending torso positions the arms between 1.1 and 2 metres in height, with a stated 900-millimetre reach and 12-kilogram handling capacity. Carbon-fibre arms and a modular shoulder, arm and body structure support handling between bins, conveyors, shelves and workstations.
Three-dimensional lidar and camera sensing support autonomous movement around people and obstacles. The platform is designed to combine driving, reaching and handling within a continuous workflow, using Ati's mobile navigation technology beneath the manipulation system. Ati is working with manufacturing partners on custom tooling and software for particular production tasks. Configured projects can include machine tending, material transfer, fastening and inspection support, with availability and pilot programmes discussed around the intended application.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Intended manufacturing-floor transfers, Intended manufacturing machine workstations, Intended populated manufacturing-floor routes
- Control modes: Autonomous
- Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Claimed - Move between factory workstations while sensing people and obstacles with 3D lidar and cameras. - environment: Intended populated manufacturing-floor routes
Source - Material handling
Claimed - Move bins, totes and parts between conveyors, workstations and shelves. - environment: Intended manufacturing-floor transfers
Source - Machine tending
Claimed - Tend industrial machines using an application-specific tooling and software integration. - environment: Intended manufacturing machine workstations
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Resources
Media library
- Dual-arm bin handling: front view
image · Ati Robotics
Source - Dual-arm bin handling: three-quarter view
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Official technical reference and alternate views of Sherpa Mecha.
- Sherpa Mecha technical brochure
PDF · Sherpa Mecha · Ati Robotics
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Timeline
- Ati Motors launches Sherpa Mecha for industrial automation
2025-09-29 - Product Launch - The humanoid-inspired design uses established actuation systems and modular AI. Customers and development partners were building application-specific tools around the platform. Ati reported testing on active manufacturing floors and work to integrate Mecha with existing automation lines.
Source - Ati Motors showcases new Sherpa robots and mission-scale milestone at Product Day 2025
2025-07-23 - Demonstration - Product Day 2025 featured Sherpa 10K, Sherpa Mecha, Sherpa Lifter 500, Sherpa Pallet Mover 1.5T, and Sherpa Monofork as part of the Sherpa platform lineup. Ati Motors said its Sherpa range was on track to execute more than 1 million autonomous missions annually across deployments in Southeast Asia, the US, and Mexico. The event positioned the company beyond material movement alone, highlighting tracking, handling, and transformation workflows powered by its Ati Verse platform.
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Context
Market context
Sherpa Mecha is Ati Motors' dual-arm wheeled mobile manipulator for industrial automation workflows.
- Target environment: Manufacturing floors, machine-tending cells, bin-handling stations and industrial work areas.
- Workflow context: Bin handling, machine tending, fastening, tool changeouts, mobile manipulation and structured task automation.
- Customer context: Manufacturers and automation teams needing mobile manipulation without bipedal locomotion.
- Deployment model: Industrial mobile manipulator platform.
- Commercial maturity: Emerging industrial product surface.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, arm payload, safety, integration and service support.
- Market position: Practical industrial mobile manipulator built around work-cell utility and wheeled mobility.
- Adjacent products: PR-OMNI, Reflex, Casbot W1, DexLeap Mobile Manipulator
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