The same aisle as a point cloud with boxes around the worker, tote and forklift

Technology

The three problems Ossian is built around, and how Ridge solves each one on a real floor.

The three problems Ossian is built around, and how Ridge solves each one on a real floor.

Perception, imitation, coordination.

01

Perception

Two depth cameras and a 360 degree lidar, one scene model, thirty updates a second.

02

Imitation

A person does the task three times wearing a capture glove. Ridge builds the motion.

03

Coordination

Every unit's path planned against every other unit's, and against the people on the floor.

Perception

It sees totes, people and forklifts, and treats them differently.

Two depth cameras and a 360 degree lidar feed a single scene model, updated thirty times a second.

Two depth cameras and a 360 degree lidar feed a single scene model, updated thirty times a second.

People

Forklifts

Totes

Stopped. The person has right of way, and it will not pass behind them.

Pulled aside. The forklift gets the whole aisle until it has gone.

Working. Arm in the shelf, tote onto its own deck.

People

3 m slow zone, 1 m stop zone, and it will not pass behind you

People

3 m slow zone, 1 m stop zone, and it will not pass behind you

People

3 m slow zone, 1 m stop zone, and it will not pass behind you

Forklifts

5 m yield zone. Ridge gives way and holds until the aisle clears

Forklifts

5 m yield zone. Ridge gives way and holds until the aisle clears

Forklifts

5 m yield zone. Ridge gives way and holds until the aisle clears

Totes

Picked. 60 mm to 380 mm, up to 12 kg

Totes

Picked. 60 mm to 380 mm, up to 12 kg

Totes

Picked. 60 mm to 380 mm, up to 12 kg

Three demonstrations. One task.

A floor lead shows Ridge the job once. Every unit on every site has it by the end of the day.

01

Capture glove

Three passes. No CAD file, no teach pendant.

02

Supervised run

Until the person who does that job signs it off.

03

Fleet push

Same shift, every unit, every site.

No integrator on site. No change request.

Ridge reaching into the same grey tote with its two-finger gripper to lift a machined part
A warehouse worker picking a box from a shelf while Ridge stands beside her, its sensor head turned toward her hands

Demonstrations

3 passes

Signed off in

11 min

Retraining

0 hours

Fleet reach

14

sites

One site teaches. Every site learns.

A wide warehouse aisle at dawn, low sun through high windows, one Ridge unit working quietly at the far end
A wide warehouse aisle at dawn, low sun through high windows, one Ridge unit working quietly at the far end
A wide warehouse aisle at dawn, low sun through high windows, one Ridge unit working quietly at the far end

When it works, the aisle just looks quiet.

Eight units can share this floor. Fleet plans every path against every other path and against the people walking it, so the only evidence it is working is that nothing is waiting.

Units sharing this aisle

8

Deadlocks in 12 months

0

Minimum aisle width

2.4

m

Yield order

People, forklifts, each other

Close-up of the top edge of Ridge's base, the safety-orange bumper band and a red emergency-stop button with a yellow collar

It tells you before it stops.

Every unit runs a continuous self-check against its own history. A bearing drifting out of tolerance becomes a scheduled job with a part number, not a breakdown at three in the morning.

Fleet availability

99.2

%

Across 14 sites, last 12 months

Faults flagged before failure

81%

Unplanned stops per unit, per year

1.4

An API for the things we did not think of.

REST and webhooks over tasks, unit state and events. Most customers never touch it. The ones who do build things we copy.

POST /v1/tasks

201 created

{

{

ʺtaskʺ: ʺpickʺ,

ʺtaskʺ: ʺpickʺ,

ʺsiteʺ: ʺleedsʺ,

ʺsiteʺ: ʺleedsʺ,

ʺaisleʺ: ʺ12ʺ,

ʺaisleʺ: ʺ12ʺ,

ʺsourceʺ: ʺshelf/12-A-04ʺ,

ʺsourceʺ: ʺshelf/12-A-04ʺ,

ʺdestinationʺ: ʺtote/TT-4471ʺ,

ʺdestinationʺ: ʺtote/TT-4471ʺ,

ʺskuʺ: ʺ8412-BXʺ,

ʺskuʺ: ʺ8412-BXʺ,

ʺpriorityʺ: ʺnormalʺ

ʺpriorityʺ: ʺnormalʺ

}

}

Ridge at a pick face in a warehouse aisle, its arm placing a small cardboard box into the grey tote on its own deck

The request above, running in Leeds, aisle 12

webhook: task.completed

Next step

Tell us what you pick.

No demo theatre / one call / one engineer

Next step

Tell us what you pick.

No demo theatre / one call / one engineer

Next step

Tell us what you pick.

No demo theatre / one call / one engineer

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