Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) · working robot
Proxie
A human-height mobile robot on four swerve-drive wheels with a vertical axis and gripper that latches onto carts and totes; its maker says it can move a 1,500 lb cart. It was kept secret from the company's 2022 founding by former Amazon robotics chief Brad Porter until late 2024.
- 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
Proxie is on the market today.
Real-world use
Early customers named include Mayo Clinic, Moderna, Owens & Minor and Tampa General Hospital (2024).
Maker
Collaborative Robotics (Cobot)Company · founded 2022 · Santa Clara, California, United States$100M Series B (April 2024)
Public attention
How much public attention Proxie gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories 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. It finds, latches onto and moves carts around hospitals and warehouses by itself.
- Actuators & motors
- Four swerve-drive wheel modules for near-holonomic motion; vertical linear axis
- Hands
- Dual-arm cart-interfacing gripper (Flex Grasp) for pulling carts; a 6-DoF cobot arm was planned as an option
- Sensors & vision
- Cameras, lidar and inertial sensors; ScoutSense perception mast at human eye height
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson on board; software validated in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and deployed with Isaac ROS
- Battery & power
- Hot-swappable batteries
- AI & software
- Vista fleet coordination; touchscreen face
- Other details
- Roughly human height; moves carts in hospitals, warehouses and factories.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedNot published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- About 30 Proxies were in trials in November 2024
- Where it is sold or used
- Collaborative Robotics (Cobot), Santa Clara, California, United States
- Customers and pilots
- Maersk, Mayo Clinic, Moderna, Owens & Minor, Tampa General Hospital
News
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- Cobot unveils Proxie
Collaborative Robotics launched Proxie publicly, naming Maersk, Mayo Clinic, Moderna, Owens & Minor and Tampa General as first customers.
PR Newswire - Wired on Proxie trials
Wired reported about 30 Proxies in testing had moved 16,000 carts over 5,000 operating hours.
Wired
Sources
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