Seegrid is building Palion AMRs into autonomous pallet movement

Seegrid crossed 20 million autonomous miles in May 2026, putting fleet-scale evidence ahead of the Palion product sheet. The company says those miles came from live production environments across more than 2,500 vehicles and more than 200 customer sites, with AMRs operating around people, forklifts, conveyors, route changes, and production schedules inside active facilities.

The Pittsburgh company was founded in 2003 by roboticist Hans Moravec, whose work at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon centered on robot perception and navigation. Seegrid says it commercialized Grid Engine technology in 2005, bringing 3D occupancy-grid mapping into industrial autonomy years before the current AMR investment cycle.

The Palion line divides pallet movement by job. Lift RS1 handles low-lift transport up to 6 feet and 3,500 pounds, Lift CR1 reaches 15 feet and 4,000 pounds, and Tow Tractor S7 covers longer-distance tugging where fork handling is the wrong tool. The product split matches facilities where one transport problem becomes several workflows once pallets move between production, storage, staging, and shipping.

Seegrid’s Fleet Central manages connected robot fleets. The company provides U.S.-based engineering, assembly, deployment and support. Source

Seegrid’s May 2026 announcement includes VDA 5050 interoperability, a standard for communication between vehicles and fleet-control systems.

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