In today's fast-paced warehouses, managers face growing pressure to improve safety, boost efficiency, and cut costs—all while dealing with labor shortages and demands for faster delivery. Artificial intelligence offers solutions, but many facilities struggle with where to begin without disrupting their existing operations.
The Road to AI Automation Starts with Observability
The real power of AI in warehouses is its ability to see and process information continuously without getting tired. Many managers, especially those running existing facilities, want to start their AI journey by simply gaining better visibility into their operations. They believe that seeing the flow of goods, people, and vehicles will help them understand where to add automation and how to increase throughput while reducing incidents.
Visibility without Disruption
RGo Robotics' technology turns any moving machines—whether driven by humans or operating autonomously—into a smart, trackable asset that generates valuable data without requiring infrastructure changes. Combined with automatically generated site maps, this creates a digital twin of your operation.
What makes RGo's solution appealing is that it delivers immediate benefits without disrupting current operations. Unlike complete warehouse redesigns that require substantial downtime, RGo's technology:
- Installs quickly on existing equipment
- Works through simple hardware additions and user-friendly software
- Begins delivering valuable data within hours
- Enables meaningful operational improvements within weeks
- Functions reliably anywhere—indoors, outdoors, in changing environments, and around people—without needing special infrastructure or connectivity
RGo Perception Engine - Visibility without Disruption
From Information to Site Intelligence
RGo's Perception Engine creates a digital twin of your operation that shows real-time movements of vehicles and goods. With up-to-the-minute and historical visibility into every machine's location, speed, and activity, managers can make smarter decisions about:
- Identifying traffic bottlenecks and workflow issues
- Understanding how well safety rules work and measuring compliance
- Analyzing how efficiently machines and space are being used
AI needs good information to work effectively. Industrial applications require industrial-grade information about the real world. Once this information is available, AI can work its magic. Getting automatic insights at the click of a button, without programming or coding, is now possible.
These insights include heatmaps showing busy areas, spaghetti diagrams tracking movement patterns, near-collision reports, detailed lists of safety violations, recommendations for improving flow, and many other custom insights that become possible once reliable information about the site activity is available.
Deliver Operational Improvements from Day One
RGo's customers use the information generated by the Perception Engine for various applications at both the machine and site level. The information easily integrates with any application through API. Common uses include:
Real-time Tracking of Machines and Goods
By equipping all moving machines with RGo Perception Engine, managers gain real-time information about the position and direction of their fleet and the location of goods being moved. Benefits include:
- Less time and effort spent looking for vehicles and goods
- Fewer goods delivered to the wrong place, reducing losses from misplaced inventory
- The ability to set up virtual zones (low speed, no entry) and get alerts when rules are broken
Mixed Fleet Management
As warehouses add autonomous vehicles alongside manually operated equipment, coordination becomes critical. Customers often report incidents where robots bump into parked forklifts or forklifts damage autonomous robots, causing harm to the robots, goods, and operations. Information from RGo Perception Engine reduces these incidents by providing:
Enhanced Driver Operations
Information from RGo Perception Engine helps forklift drivers work more efficiently and safely through:
- Turn-by-turn navigation for optimized routes
- Active speed zone enforcement (reducing speed, alerts)
- Inventory location finder to reduce search time
- Collision alerts to prevent accidents
- Zero-scan picking and dropping of goods
Intelligent Autonomy
While immediate operational benefits are substantial, RGo's technology also builds the foundation for adaptable and reliable autonomous vehicles. By establishing good perception and mapping facilities can add autonomous capabilities at their own pace and in a seamless way.
RGo Perception Engine already powers adaptable autonomous vehicles in dozens of industrial sites worldwide, delivering significant throughput improvements compared to navigation solutions that depend on markers or infrastructure.
Adding RGo Perception Engine to an autonomous mobile robot takes just days, and setting up a robotic solution powered by RGo is simple and fast. Once deployed, RGo-powered mobile robots operate reliably in the most challenging environments including dynamic spaces, narrow aisles, uneven floors, changing lighting conditions, and in both indoor and outdoor operations.
Measure, Analyze and Continuously Improve
Having continuous visibility into site operations enables customers to consistently measure improvements based on your key performance indicators.
Whether tracking safety incidents (or near misses), equipment use, inventory losses, or throughput, having reliable information that quickly turns into insights allows operations to improve gradually while continuing to use existing equipment.
Digital twins are increasingly helping customers improve planning for new sites. You can test layout and flows virtually before moving a single rack, saving time and preventing costly mistakes.
Having a detailed digital twin of your site that continuously updates as environments change takes digital twins to a different level, enabling continuous improvement of existing operations.
RGo's solution generates dynamic 3D and semantic maps of facilities, helping customers build your site's digital twin and collect the historical data needed to identify areas for optimization. The information collected by RGo-powered trucks updates the digital twin to reflect changes, enabling measurement of KPIs and suggesting further improvements.
The Future of Material Handling is Here
Industrial applications require industrial-grade AI: predictable, reliable, and trustworthy.
As material handling evolves toward greater automation and intelligence, the companies that thrive will be those that successfully make the transition without disrupting current operations. RGo's Perception Engine provides the ideal starting point—delivering immediate value while building toward future capabilities.
For managers seeking to improve safety, efficiency, and prepare for an AI-powered future without disrupting current operations, RGo's Perception Engine offers a solution that delivers immediate benefits while paving the way for continued advancement.
The journey typically follows three phases:
- Establish visibility: Deploy RGo's Perception Engine to collect information about everything that moves in your operations
- Deliver improvements: Turn the information into insights and suggested improvements using analytics tools and AI
- Measure & continuously improve: Use information collected by RGo Perception Engine to measure the impact of changes and identify additional areas for improvement
This step-by-step approach allows facilities to capture value at each stage while building toward more comprehensive automation powered by AI.
To see RGo's Perception Engine in action, contact us to schedule a personalized demonstration.