Symbotic · working robot
SymBot
Free-roaming robots drive through a multi-level structure, each storing or fetching about one case a minute. Customers include Walmart, Target, Albertsons, C&S and Giant Tiger.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 40.2 km/hFaster than 100%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Symbotic claims the fastest robots in the industry; the 25 mph figure is the company's claim, while 2024 coverage says over 20 mph.
Real-world use
Walmart started with Symbotic at Brooksville, Florida in 2017 and began adding it to 25 more regional distribution centres in 2021.
Timeline
- Released
- 2014
Maker
SymboticCompany · founded 2007 (as CasePick Systems; renamed 2012) · Wilmington, Massachusetts, USANasdaq-listed (SYM) after a SPAC merger with a SoftBank-sponsored vehicle, announced December 2021; 2025 revenue about US$2.25 billion
How it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
SymBot is faster than 100% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention SymBot gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
- 3 reported deployments
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Bots drive themselves through the storage structure, storing and fetching cases under system software.
- Actuators & motors
- Battery-electric wheeled bots that drive freely (no fixed tracks) through a multi-level storage structure
- Hands
- No gripper arm; each bot stores or retrieves cases, about one case a minute
- AI & software
- Symbotic's AI-based fleet and warehouse software orchestrates the bots
From the maker
SymBot is the only machine from Symbotic in the atlas.
Watch SymBot
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
- Customers and pilots
- Walmart, Target, Albertsons, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Giant Tiger
Where it works
3 reported deployments.
- Deployed
Walmart · Walmart distribution center, Brooksville · Brooksville · since 2017
Symbotic robots sort, store and palletise freight at Walmart's Brooksville, Florida distribution centre. TechCrunch
- Deployed
Walmart · 25 regional distribution centres · since 2021-07
Walmart began adding Symbotic systems to 25 more regional distribution centres in 2021. 25 regional distribution centres announced TechCrunch
- Deployed
Target · Target distribution center, California · since 2016
Target brought a California distribution centre online with Symbotic's automated system in 2016. Supply Chain Digest
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Symbotic buys Walmart's robotics unit
Symbotic closed its purchase of Walmart's Advanced Systems and Robotics business and agreed to build pickup-and-delivery systems for up to 400 Walmart stores.
Symbotic (SEC filing)
Sources
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