Yondu
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
About Yondu
Where is Yondu headquartered?
Yondu is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
What does Yondu do?
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
What problem does Yondu solve?
3PL warehouses face high-turnover, repetitive physical labor (like bin-picking) that is costly to staff and hard to automate without expensive infrastructure changes.
What's Yondu's solution?
Yondu provides drop-in, general-purpose warehouse robots that automate bin-picking and other repetitive tasks within a warehouse's existing layout.
What makes Yondu different?
Yondu states it is the first company to fully automate brownfield bin-picking at a price point mid-sized warehouses can afford, requiring no retrofits or new infrastructure, and cites a working partnership with 3PL Shipbots plus claimed labor cost cuts of up to 75%.
What makes Yondu notable?
Yondu was founded by Michael Chen and Tahmid Jamal, started at MIT in late 2023, and is backed by Y Combinator (W24).
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