Calgary, Canada, Attabotics
https://www.fastcompany.com/90457446/attabotics-most-innovative-companies-2020
Through store closures and stay-at-home orders online shopping has become the predominant way to acquire products and goods. This system inspired by ant colonies shrinks large warehouses into a dense, vertical stacking system. The robots are controlled from a workstation where the employee requests the item(s) on a screen and the robot retrieves the correct containers and brings them via tracks to the workstation. The system itself is modular and can be expanded with additional tracks and containers and is usually installed into a building rather than being built into it.