Contoro

Contoro Robotics is an Austin, Texas-based warehouse automation company that develops robotic systems for unloading truck trailers and shipping containers. Its machines use an industrial robotic arm with suction-based grasping to locate boxes, pick them up and transfer them onto conveyor belts, targeting multi-SKU, floor-loaded trailers where box sizes, shifting loads and packaging vary. The systems combine customer-specific AI models and custom grasping techniques with human-in-the-loop remote monitoring and teleoperation.

When the AI encounters a situation it cannot handle, such as a dropped box, a remote operator wearing an exoskeleton suit takes control of the arm from a control center in Austin; those interventions are used as input for continued model learning. The company has stated the AI alone performs successfully about 98% of the time, and that overall unloading success rates reach 99% or better, with one teleoperator able to oversee up to 10 robotic arms. Contoro deploys its robots in warehouses, distribution centers and e-commerce fulfillment hubs, and has said it plans a next-generation AI-driven palletizing system.