Ultra

• Operator

Output & shipments

• Shipments

  2026-03-23 - Ultra Robotics said it shipped the first two builds of its newest robot to a customer. - OP1

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Operating milestones

• Operating milestone

  2026-10-09 - Ultra reports cumulative order-packing output from its robots working in customer warehouses. - Company-wide customer warehouse orders packed

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• Praxis-1 at Ultra mobile base

  Evaluation - Tested With - Ultra tested Praxis-1 on its physical robot hardware during Runway’s pre-launch partner programme.

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Supply chain relationships

• Physical Intelligence

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Ultra’s deployed order-packaging robots run Physical Intelligence’s pi0.6 model in live customer warehouses

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• 2026-10-09 - Series A - $50M - Ultra raises $50 million Series A for warehouse robotics

  Framework Ventures led Ultra's Series A, with participation from Y Combinator, bringing disclosed funding to $62 million. - source: fortune.com

• Framework Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-09
• Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-09

• Jon Miller Schwartz - Co-Founder and CEO
• Oliver Ortlieb - Co-Founder and CTO

• Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots

  2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.

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Events

• 2026-10-13 - Product Launch - Physical Intelligence opens Pi API beta to more robot developers

  Teams can upload their robot data, launch fine-tuning on PI-managed compute and infrastructure, and run the resulting models through hosted inference. Early users include Argon Robotics, which trained a dish-racking policy within 35 hours, and General Instinct, which trained a server-assembly policy within three days. Beta participation is by application; most showcased applications use cloud-hosted inference, with network connectivity identified as an area for improvement.

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• 2026-10-09 - Funding - Ultra raises $50 million Series A for warehouse robotics

  The total includes an earlier $12 million seed round led by Y Combinator and NextView. Warehouse customers pay an installation fee followed by monthly charges for hardware and software support. Ultra says its robots have packed more than 500,000 orders across customer warehouses.

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• 2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots

  Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.

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• 2026-08-05 - Product Launch - Shotwell introduces robotics data annotation with Ultra customer results

  In its Ultra case study, Shotwell reports that one engineer can review work from over 60 operators, compared with around 10 previously. The workflow labels subtask boundaries, retries and failures; the tower-stacking example distinguishes Pick, Set and Unstack actions. Shotwell reports 24-hour annotation turnaround after aligning task definitions and training models on human-reviewed examples.

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• 2026-04-15 - Product Launch - Ultra Robotics introduces Operator industrial AI robot for warehouse automation

  Ultra Robotics unveiled Operator as an industrial AI robot designed for continuous warehouse operation rather than demonstration use. Operator is positioned to automate repetitive workflows including packing, sorting, and kitting across fulfillment environments. The system is designed for extended uptime of up to 24 hours per day, targeting scalable automation with consistent task execution.

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• 2026-03-23 - Production Milestone - Ultrarobotics ships first two builds of newest robot to customer

  Ultrarobotics said it shipped the first two builds of its newest robot to a customer after close to a year of development. The company framed the shipment as the start of commercial rollout while noting that a full public reveal is still forthcoming.

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• 2025-12-22 - Demonstration - Ultra's AI-Powered Robots Demonstrate Advanced Order Packing Capabilities

  Ultra's AI-powered robots are designed to handle complex order packing tasks in e-commerce fulfillment centers The robots utilize modern AI models to adapt to new tasks and environments, moving beyond rigid programming Customers report 30-40% monthly savings per robot, with throughput exceeding 1,000 orders per shift depending on order complexity.

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• 2025-12-22 - Deployment - Ultra Robotics' robots deployed at Manifest Eco for e-commerce order packaging

  • Ultra Robotics deployed two AI-powered robots at Manifest Eco, a third-party logistics provider in Texas, to automate e-commerce order pa... • Each robot operates daily, packing between 800 to 1,000 orders with minimal manual intervention. • The deployment has transformed the packaging department, enhancing throughput and operational efficiency.

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Relationships

• Physical Intelligence

  Partner - Ultra used Physical Intelligence's pi 0.6 model in live customer deployments packaging real orders, including a full-shift 96.4% autonomy result.

• New York University

  Robotics Research Industry Partner - NYU's Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence maintains an industry partnership with Ultra.