Attabotics · working robot
Attabot
Attabot robots move horizontally and vertically through a stackable cube up to 9 m tall to reach any bin directly. The company collapsed in mid-2025.
- Price
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- Height
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- Weight
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- Payload
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- Speed
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- Battery
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Why it matters
A Canadian storage design inspired by leafcutter ants, with robots that travel both across and up inside a storage cube.
Real-world use
Customers included Gordon Food Service, Nordstrom and Canadian Tire, and a 2022 US Marine Corps logistics warehouse project.
Maker
AttaboticsCompany · founded 2016 · Calgary, Alberta, CanadaGovernment of Canada C$34M (2020) and other rounds; bankrupt 2025
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Attabot robots move horizontally and vertically through the storage cube to access bins; proprietary software operates the storage and retrieval system.
- Actuators & motors
- Robots travel horizontally along the top of a storage cube and vertically down shafts to any bin without digging
From the maker
Attabot is the only machine from Attabotics in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Customers and pilots
- Gordon Food Service, Nordstrom, Canadian Tire, a US Marine Corps Logistics Command warehouse project (with KPMG); Korber as EU partner
News
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- Robotics startup Attabotics closes down and terminates employees
Attabotics terminated most employees effective June 30, 2025, and filed a notice of intention to make a proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act on July 2.
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Sources
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