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Automation That Scales Past Labor Constraints

Locus Robotics helps operators navigate labor constraints through a flexibility-first automation platform that spans everything from collaborative workflows to fully autonomous fulfillment. The result is higher productivity, greater resilience, and the ability to scale with confidence as business needs evolve.

The ChallengeLabor Isn’t Just Hard to Find. It’s Hard to Sustain.

Labor Availability

Finding and retaining qualified workers remains a persistent challenge as labor shortages continue to intensify, constraining operational capacity, productivity, and growth.

Workforce Turnover

Warehouse roles are physically demanding, resulting in high turnover that creates constant recruiting, onboarding, and training demands that impact operational performance.

Workforce Scalability

Demand can change rapidly, but labor cannot. Recruiting, onboarding, and training workers to support growth or seasonal peaks is often costly, time-consuming, and unpredictable.

Labor Economics

Rising wages, overtime, and labor-related costs continue to pressure margins while increasing productivity expectations require operations to do more with the workforce they have.

The Locus SolutionEmpower Associates. Scale With Confidence.

The average warehouse associate walks more than 10 miles (16+ km) per shift pushing carts and moving inventory. Locus Robotics puts robots on the miles and associates on the value-added work, improving productivity, reducing fatigue, and creating a better employee experience.

50-90%

Lower labor costs

90%

Less walking time

98%

Less onboarding time

Collaborative Fulfillment

The Fastest, Most Flexible Path To Automation

With Locus Origin™ and Locus Vector™, associates stay focused on picking while robots handle the travel. This person-to-goods approach eliminates up to 90% of unproductive walking, driving 2-3x productivity gains, higher throughput, and ROI measured in months.

No fixed infrastructure. No operational disruption. Just a faster, more flexible way to automate fulfillment.

Key Workflows

Picking
Returns
Putaway
Sortation
Replenishment
Material Transport

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Fully Autonomous Fulfillment

Near Lights Out Automation With Unparalleled Flexibility

With Locus Array™, robots pick and consolidate orders directly within the aisle. This robot-to-goods approach lowers labor costs by 90% while delivering higher throughput, greater accuracy, 24/7 operations, and up to 2x storage density.

Achieve near lights-out fulfillment without the rigidity, complexity, or CapEx of traditional automation.

Key Workflows

Picking
Putaway
Replenishment
Slotting
Auto Induct & Drop-off
Pick & Pass To Locus Cobots

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Solving PeakMeet Peak Demand Without The Temp Labor Hiring Rush

The Locus FlexBot Program

The Locus FlexBot program enables operators to scale automation capacity on demand during peak periods—without the challenges of rapidly recruiting, training, and managing large temporary workforces.

How it works:

Forecast Peak Requirements Our team works with you to determine the exact number of robots needed to achieve your projected throughput goals.
FlexBots Delivered to Your Facility Our robots are delivered directly to your warehouse ahead of peak season.
Rapid Deployment The robots are pre-loaded with your warehouse workflows and quickly deployable, adding capacity in days, not months.
Scale Through Peak Increase throughput and fulfillment capacity and meet SLAs without a proportional increase in headcount.
Return When Peak Ends Once demand returns to normal, the robots are shipped back to Locus and you return to operating your core fleet.

Every year, Locus deploys thousands of FlexBots worldwide, helping customers meet peak demand while maintaining service levels, reducing operational complexity, and avoiding the temporary labor crunch.

Real ImpactHow Radial Strengthens Job Market Competitiveness With Locus Robotics

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