About us
Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics.
Plus One Robotics provides the fastest and most reliable parcel handling robotics platform in the world. Founded in 2016 by computer vision and robotics industry experts, Plus One's intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for leading logistics and ecommerce organizations in the Global 100.
Leadership Team
Erik Nieves
CEO & Co-founder
Shaun Edwards
CTO & Co-founder
Avihou Barkay
President & CCO
Peter Pixton
CFO
Rachel Bruce
Head of Marketing
Christina Gomez-Terry
Vice President of Operations
Ryan Hannon
Director of Customer Excellence
We’ve Been Laying the Groundwork for Plus One Over the Past Decade.
2010
Erik Nieves, as Technology Director for Yaskawa Motoman Robotics (2nd largest industrial robot OEM), maps robotics development horsepower in the Americas. He notes that ROS is emerging everywhere.
2011
Shaun Edwards, Visiting Researcher at Willow Garage, develops software for the first industrial robot controlled with the simple_message protocol, later to become ROS-Industrial (ROS-I).
2012
With the team at SwRI, Shaun launches the ROS-I repository, and Paul Hvass launches the ROS-I Consortium.
2013
ROS-I emerges at the Automate Conference in Chicago with a 3D vision-driven robotic picking demonstration. Erik is a presenter at the inaugural meeting of the ROS-I Consortium and becomes the member representative to the Consortium for Yaskawa Motoman Robotics.
2014
Shaun leads a parcel singulation research project; an e-commerce company is interested. The ROS-I Consortium Europe launches. Erik participates with NASA on RROXITT to use remote human-in-the-loop control for satellite servicing.
2015
Paul and Shaun develop the PickOne Perception System. Yaskawa sponsors three teams at the Amazon Picking Challenge in Seattle. Paul wins SA Business Journal’s Tech Flash Titan, Technology Researcher Award.
2016
Erik founds Plus One Robotics Inc. Shaun Edwards joins as co-founder. Paul continues work with the ROS-I Consortium, helping to launch the ROS-I Asia-Pacific Consortium.
2017
Plus One begins to tell the world about the power of supervised autonomy. Shaun participates in the winning DMDII proposal resulting in the ARM Institute, where Shaun continues involvement as Director of Open Source Software. Paul joins Plus One as co-founder.
2018
PickOne v1.0 released. CheckOne is deployed at its first fulfillment center. Plus One emerges from stealth mode.
2019
Yonder is deployed and our first Crew Chief is on duty. The Quick Deployment Kit launches. Shaun named to the ARM Institute SEC.
2020
First robots are deployed at FedEx Memphis Hub.
2021
First robots deployed in the EU. Erik Nieves named to the board of the RIA. Crystal Parrott joins as VP of Engineering. Raised Series B funding. First office in the Netherlands opened. Peter Pixton joins as CFO.
2024
Passed 1 Billion lifetime picks across all robots fielded with Plus One technology. ICC robot gripper released for parcel handling applications.
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