Vecna's Pivotal 'multi-agent orchestration engine' integrates into WMS/ERP systems and optimizes workflows.

As demand rapidly evolves, warehouses and distribution centers must keep up, but mobile robots alone are not enough to maintain and grow efficiency. Last year, Vecna Robotics introduced Pivotal, an AI-based “orchestration engine” to help robots and human workers adapt workflows to shifting demand.

Waltham, Mass.-based Vecna Robotics, which spun out of Vecna Technologies, provides an “autonomy stack” of hardware, software, and support for safe and efficient materials handling. Its offerings include automated pallet jacks, conveyors, and tuggers, as well as Pivotal.

The Pivotal AI analyzes an organization’s operations and dynamically adjusts them in real time, coordinating and distributing tasks to both people and robots. It is designed to integrate with legacy automation, warehouse management systems (WMS), and manufacturing execution systems.