Their robots are being tested by Nova Post interview with the CEO of Deus Robotics

Paul Pikulin, founder of Deus Robotics. Photo from the personal archive

Founded by Paul Pikulin in 2018, Deus Robots raised $5 million in its first funding round. The investment was led by BGV Trident Capital. Deus Robotics develops advanced robotic solutions for warehouse logistics. The funding is being used to scale mass production, expand the engineering team, and support the company’s expansion into international markets.

Mass production is planned to begin by the end of 2022, with a volume of about 400 robots per month. These robots will be used to automate logistics processes.

Until now, Deus Robotics has been developed on basis of the personal investments of its founders. Thus, Paul Pikulin has already invested more than $1 million of his own funds into the development of the project. In 2021, Deus Robotics produced and delivered 40 robots to customers.

“There is a number of tasks in any warehouse that are solved by people: sorting, picking orders. and transporting goods. We develop robotic solutions specifically for these tasks. At this moment we have three robots: for sorting goods and parcels, for transporting racks and for transporting pallets. Next year, three new models of robots will appear, dealing with other tasks like picking up goods from shelves and racks,”
said Paul Pikulin.

According to him, the robotics market is a promising area for investment. Deus Robotics’ portfolio already includes orders for the supply of more than 400 robots in 2022-2023.

“One of our robots can work approximately 18 hours a day. This exceeds the working day of a loader or a warehouse manager, whose working day lasts 8 hours. And one needs to add weekends, vacations, sick leave, and other administrative costs associated with hiring people (training, transportation costs, etc.),” Paul Pikulin explained.

The advancement of robotics is strengthened through collaboration with Nova Post, a rapidly growing international logistics operator. Deus Robotics’ robots are already being tested in real logistics environments, supporting sorting and internal goods movement processes.

According to Paul, the tangible effect of the use of robots can also be seen in other areas like construction, in which the company plans to develop in the future as well. However, currently, the main focus of the company is logistics. In the world of rapid development of online trade, retail and postal services, logistics has the highest potential for robotization.

“Today we are focused on logistics robots. Their task is to increase the efficiency of manual labor in logistics companies. But now they replace only a part of the human work. And our goal is to robotize all warehouse logistics processes,” commented Paul Pikulin.

“The creation of robots is one of the most promising areas in high technology. Replacing manual labor with machine-driven processes has long been a goal, and we are pleased to see Deus Robotics at the forefront of this transformation. As investors, we are committed to supporting this journey and contributing to the company’s global success,” said Ilya Ponomarev.

Let us recall that the robotic company, engaged in the development, production, and sale of high-tech equipment for logistics, Deus Robotics, was founded in 2018. It specializes in the development and production of technologies for autonomous mobile robots (AMR).