Picture hundreds of fully autonomous airplanes trying to take-off and land in a small airport with just a handful of terminals. Each plane is assigned to pick up and drop off passengers in a precise location within a narrow window of time while minimizing the distance traveled on the tarmac and between terminals.

Similarly, the Symbotic System’s autonomous bots must navigate a shared space called the transfer deck, with its driveways and aisles, to pick up and deliver cases within the high-density structure. A proprietary routing algorithm enables hundreds of bots, moving at up to twenty-plus miles per hour, to do this quickly and efficiently without colliding or delaying other bots while executing assignments.