The target process is unclear
Choosing a robot first can hide mismatches with the work, routes, and peak conditions until later.
WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION FOR SMALL AND MIDSIZE LOGISTICS AND MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
Increase warehouse capacity without adding headcount.
From site assessment and ROI modeling to equipment selection, systems integration, go-live, and continuous improvement—move the right automation forward through one customer-facing window.
- See payback conditions before buying equipment
- Compare AMRs first for existing warehouses
- Measure and improve capacity after go-live
THE PRODUCT
Warehouse automation delivery package
Turn interest in automation into an investable decision and an executable go-live plan.
Rovnou is the evaluation, design, software, and delivery-coordination window. Contract ownership for equipment, construction, safety compliance, and maintenance is defined per project.
LIVE BROWSER MODEL
20 AMRs · warehouse scenario
Moving 0
Turning 0
Waiting 0
A discrete model adapted from a public MAPF benchmark—not live robots or a site improvement result.
- 01Build the caseModel current cost, flow, constraints, and ROI conditions
- 02Choose the methodCompare AMRs first, then equipment, process, and layout options
- 03Go liveConnect systems and define commissioning and acceptance KPIs
- 04Keep improvingUse operating data and coordinated planning to improve flow
THE BUYING PROBLEM
You want to automate, but the answers needed to invest are disconnected.
You want to automate the warehouse, but do not know which process to automate, what it will cost, when the investment can pay back, or who can connect the work end to end. That is the first problem to solve.
ROI assumptions are opaque
Automated time is often confused with value that can actually become capacity, avoided hiring, or cost effect.
Ownership fragments
When equipment, software, construction, and maintenance are separate, decisions and responsibility can break before go-live.
Rovnou does not sell a robot by itself or stop at a diagnostic report. The offer is a delivery package for selecting automation that can pay back, getting it live, and improving it over time.
ROI BEFORE EQUIPMENT
See what payback requires before choosing a robot.
Use your own labor, operating time, investment, and operating-cost assumptions instead of a universal improvement rate. The useful question is whether the automation share and realized-effect share required for payback are credible.
Example inputs — not a quotation
Change the assumptions and see what payback would require.
Separate today’s target work, the share that can be automated, and the share that can become measurable capacity, avoided hiring, or cost effect. Results update immediately.
WHAT YOU BUY
Make profitable automation one product across decision, delivery, and operations.
The first deliverable is not a robot quote. It is an investment decision connecting the target process, financial assumptions, equipment architecture, integration scope, and acceptance conditions.
Automation target and ROI conditions
Define investment assumptions from the current work, transport volume, peaks, labor cost, and hiring plan.
Equipment, process, and layout design
Compare AMRs, AGVs and AGFs, conveyors, AS/RS, and process changes against the same criteria.
Systems integration and operations design
Define WMS, WCS, FMS, and equipment I/O, exceptions, responsibilities, and acceptance KPIs.
Fleet coordination and continuous improvement
Reduce waiting, detours, and shared-resource conflicts as the AMR fleet grows, using Rovnou planning and operating KPIs.
What the customer buys: the capacity to meet required shipping and transport volume without adding headcount
AUTOMATION OPTIONS
For an existing warehouse, compare AMRs first.
AMRs are the primary candidate where staged deployment and route flexibility matter. Fixed routes or continuous flow can favor other methods. Start from payback conditions, not a predetermined machine.
Primary candidate
AMR
Evaluate staged deployment into the existing layout, flexible routes, and multiple destinations.
Fixed movement
AGV / AGF
Compare for repeatable routes, heavy loads, and fork transport where operational consistency is valuable.
High-frequency fixed flow
Conveyor / AS/RS
Compare where continuous movement or storage density justifies building and equipment work.
Add less equipment
Process redesign
Narrow automation scope when placement, replenishment, waves, or standard work should change first.
END-TO-END DELIVERY
Do not stop at advice. Carry one delivery plan through go-live.
End to end does not mean Rovnou manufactures every machine. It means the customer-facing evaluation, design, and delivery path stays connected while each vendor’s contract and responsibility remain explicit.
- 01
Baseline and ROI
Review process, volume, people, peaks, routes, and systems; create automation options and payback conditions.
- 02
System design
Define equipment, quantity, layout, integration, exception handling, safety ownership, and maintenance ownership.
- 03
Procure, connect, commission
Work with selected equipment and construction companies through integration, trials, training, and acceptance.
- 04
Operate and improve
Measure completed moves, waiting, interventions, and stops; improve assignment and coordinated planning.
Combine one front door with explicit contract ownership.
Rovnou scope
- Initial evaluation and ROI model
- Automation and systems design
- AMR coordinated-planning software
- Integration specification, acceptance KPIs, and improvement design
Scope confirmed per project
- Robot and material-handling manufacture and sale
- Building, electrical, and equipment work
- Regulatory review, risk assessment, and safety compliance
- On-site maintenance, parts, and first response
Contract ownership for equipment manufacture and sale, construction, regulatory and safety compliance, and maintenance is assigned explicitly with the equipment, construction, and maintenance companies selected for each project. Rovnou does not promise unverified universal equipment supply or construction capability.
WHY ROVNOU
Coordinated planning so AMR automation keeps working as the fleet grows.
Even when each robot can drive, intersections, narrow aisles, and pick faces can degrade fleet flow. Rovnou plans fleet-wide routes, turns, waits, and passing order from position, heading, and continuous tasks.
20-AMR warehouse demo
Replay independent routes and Rovnou coordinated planning side by side on the same warehouse layout and task stream. Inspect heading-aware discrete actions, continuous tasks, and completions in the browser.
Watch the running product demoSolver evidence from a public benchmark
Displayed 8th on the LoRR 2026 Combined Leaderboard. Across the 11 official instances, Rovnou completed 2.01 times as many tasks in total as the Default Entry.
This is a leaderboard comparison, not a measured improvement in a live warehouse or a certified final ranking. This supports the route-planning algorithm. ROI, equipment fit, FMS integration, and live-warehouse capacity require separate site validation.
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SYSTEM & SAFETY BOUNDARY
Inspect existing systems, then define integration and safety ownership first.
Implementation depends on available WMS, WCS, FMS, and equipment APIs. Even when Rovnou plans routes and passing order, low-level driving, obstacle avoidance, emergency stops, and final functional safety remain with the equipment side.
Rovnou
Receives tasks, positions, and headings and plans fleet-wide routes, priority, waiting, and passing order.
Existing systems and equipment
Own driving control, sensors, obstacle avoidance, emergency stops, PLCs, safety functions, and on-site maintenance.
Agree together
Define APIs, update rates, exception behavior, stop authority, acceptance KPIs, incident isolation, and recovery.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Daisuke Kuriyama
Founder / Product & Engineering
Publish who owns the design and the evidence boundary.
Responsible for Rovnou automation design, coordinated-planning algorithms, benchmarks, and technical-fit decisions. Simulation is not presented as a customer result, and unconfirmed equipment, construction, and maintenance arrangements are stated per project.
FAQ
Questions to answer before warehouse automation
Can we start before owning any robots?
Yes. Start with current process, volume, people, peaks, and layout to define the automation target and payback conditions before selecting equipment.
Is the public ROI result a quote?
No. It is a scenario based on entered assumptions. An investment decision requires process observation, vendor quotes, construction, maintenance and integration costs, and validation of realizable effects.
Do you consider equipment other than AMRs?
AMRs are the first candidate for an existing warehouse, while AGVs and AGFs, conveyors, AS/RS, and process redesign are compared when they fit the process better.
Can Rovnou alone construct and maintain everything?
That is not universally promised. Rovnou covers evaluation, design, software, and delivery coordination. Equipment, construction, safety compliance, and local maintenance contract ownership is confirmed per project.
Does the 20-AMR demo prove live-site impact?
No. It shows coordinated-planning behavior in a discrete browser simulation. Physical performance, live-site throughput, and ROI need separate validation.
Turn “we want to automate” into investable numbers and a delivery plan.
Start by changing the public ROI assumptions. Then use your process and volume to narrow the automation options that can make economic sense for your warehouse.