Edge systems / Autonomous material movement / Seed
A retrofit path from manual forklift to autonomous fleet in under 48 hours.
Metric impact
38%
higher pallet throughput
zero facility modification
Founders
Tariq Al-Mansoor / Chloe Dupont / Alexei Chen
Stage
Seed
Replaces
$120,000 autonomous forklift plus facility infrastructure
Investment memorandum / 05
Relay makes existing industrial vehicles autonomous using commodity cameras, edge vision transformers, and universal drive-by-wire actuation.
Technical insight
Warehouse autonomy usually means replacing manual forklifts with purpose-built AGVs or modifying the facility with reflectors, magnets, and local infrastructure. Both approaches impose a large upfront decision before the operator sees the benefit.
Relay converts standard 2D camera streams into dynamic 3D occupancy grids on low-power edge silicon. The system plans through unmapped, high-traffic corridors and controls existing hydraulic levers through a universal actuator kit, preserving the fleet and the building around it.
Commodity hardware base
Measured deployment
45
vehicles retrofitted
600K
square feet
48 hr
fleet installation
38%
throughput gain
Capability per deployed dollar
Relay retrofitted a live logistics fleet without floor markers, reflectors, or dedicated server racks, then operated alongside human staff while materially improving pallet cycle time.
Legacy architecture
$120,000 per AGV plus a $200,000 infrastructure overhaul
Tensor architecture
$1,150 retrofit that turns the existing fleet into the autonomous fleet
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