Global industrial IoT provider Advantech has successfully deployed SEER Robotics' standardized robot solutions in its US factory.

Leveraging SEER Robotics' M4 Smart Logistics Management System and multiple rotating lifting robots, Advantech has established an efficient, precise, and flexible smart logistics solution in a space-constrained, highly dynamic warehouse environment.

Project Challenges

Deploying robots in Advantech’s US factory presented dual challenges of confined spaces and the demand for precision and efficiency:

1. 100+ high-density shelf storage with extremely narrow operating aisles, posing extremely high demands on robot positioning accuracy and maneuverability flexibility.

2. Human-robot mixed flow with numerous dynamic obstacles, making traditional robot scheduling solutions unable to ensure safe and efficient collaborative operations.

3. Traditional manual picking modes suffer from high labor intensity and low efficiency, with employees walking several kilometers daily and heavy lifting relying on manual collaboration, urgently requiring intelligent upgrading.

Solution Highlights

Addressing Advantech’s factory characteristics and core needs, SEER Robotics’ technical team delivered a highly adaptive solution, earning customer acclaim and setting a new benchmark for robot applications in narrow, high-density spaces.

【Precision & Flexibility: Conquering Complex Narrow Aisles】

1. More Flexible Follow-up Function: Advantech's deployed rotating-lifting robots feature a "vehicle rotates, cargo stays still" follow-up function, significantly reducing turning radius, greatly enhancing maneuverability and efficiency in narrow environments, and lowering space requirements.

2. More Precise QR Code-Assisted Positioning: Deploying QR codes at critical nodes enables high-precision secondary positioning in dynamic environments, ensuring robots operate accurately even in high-interference, mixed human-robot scenarios and guaranteeing operational accuracy.

[ Global Intelligence: Thriving in High-Dynamic Scenarios]

1. Upgraded R-MAPF Advanced Scheduling Algorithm: The M4 system upgraded to R-MAPF (Multi-Agent Path Finding) algorithm, with more stable traffic control strategies granting the system powerful, complex path planning and multi-robot real-time collaborative avoidance capabilities, ensuring efficient, safe logistics in dense, complex traffic control points.

2.Intelligent Slot Management Unlocks Complex Logic: Deep application of M4's slot management enables intelligent task dispatching and conflict avoidance, optimizing multi-robot task paths. Innovative queuing mechanisms at picking points, managed via real-time virtual slot status, allow the system to intelligently schedule robots to queue at waiting points. It enables multi-robot collaboration, instant automatic repositioning, and achieves continuous high-efficiency operations at dispatch points, maximizing picking resource utilization.

【Seamless Integration: Lowering System Barriers】

Through rich standard interfaces and M4 system's preset task templates, the solution significantly reduced integration difficulty and secondary development workload with Advantech's WMS system, enabling rapid deployment and significantly shortening project cycles.

Customer Benefits

SEER Robotics' solution delivered multi-dimensional, immediate benefits to Advantech's US factory:

1. Labor Cost Savings: Robots successfully replaced manual handling, optimized labor structure, and effectively reduced operational costs.

2. Drastic Reduction in Employee Labor Intensity: Employees no longer endured kilometers of daily fatigue from picking or heavy lifting, fundamentally improving work environments and experiences.

3. Leap in Factory Operational Efficiency: Combining precise robot handling, intelligent scheduling, and queuing mechanisms significantly improved order response speed, shelf turnover rates, and overall processing efficiency.

4. More Standardized & Transparent Management: Goods' locations became clearly visible through the system, achieving full-process digital management and traceability of in-warehouse logistics.

About Advantech

Founded in 1983, Advantech's brand vision is "Enabling an Intelligent Planet." The company has long focused on industrial IoT, embedded IoT, and smart city markets. To embrace IoT, big data, and AI trends, Advantech has proposed IoT hardware and software solutions centered on edge intelligence and the WISE-PaaS industrial IoT cloud platform, helping partners connect industrial chains. With operations in 28 countries and about 8,900 employees, Advantech provides localized services through strong technical support and marketing networks. Plus, the company actively promotes industry partner co-creation to accelerate AIoT ecosystem development.

About SEER Robotics

SEER Robotics (Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.), founded in 2020, is a global leader in intelligent robotics with a core focus on control systems. Its founding team, comprising graduates from Zhejiang University, is a hall-of-fame winner of the RoboCup World Championship. Headquartered in Shanghai, SEER Robotics has established an overseas subsidiary in Germany, along with domestic offices in Hong Kong, Wuxi, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and other cities across China. The company is backed by prominent institutional investors, including GLP, China Growth Capital, ECOVACS, IDG Capital, and SAIF Partners.

Guided by the mission “ Drive a more open, diverse era of intelligence, making robots accessible to all ”, SEER Robotics empowers the robotics industry through its industry-leading control systems—widely regarded as the “robot brain.” SEER Robotics provides one-stop solutions for building, picking and managing robots. Its offerings include robot controllers, software, robots and an open-access knowledge base.

According to China Insights Consultancy, SEER Robotics ranked No.1 globally in robot controller shipments for both 2023 and 2024, and have built world’s only large-scale open platform dedicated to intelligent robotics. SEER Robotics supports a global customer base of over 1,500 companies, including industry leaders such as Philips, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and FAW-Volkswagen. Its solutions are widely adopted across more than 20 industries, spanning automotive, new energy, 3C electronics, semiconductors, construction machinery and healthcare, and are deployed in over 65 countries and regions.