Before COVID-19, Dexory, a robotics company, was focused on helping brick-and-mortar retailers run their businesses. Then the pandemic hit, and retail partners contacted Dexory to ask if their robotics solutions could be used in warehouses.
It was quite a shift from the 10,000 square foot retail spaces the company was used to, but Dexory’s CEO, Andrei Danescu, realized the potential boon to business, even if it meant a massive logistical challenge for the company founded in 2015 as BotsAndUs. And it worked. To perfection.
Five years later, Dexory bills itself as an AI-powered warehouse logistics company. That’s the speed of change, but Danescu knows something about speed. He holds a master’s degree in motorsport engineering from Cranfield University and has worked for two auto racing teams, including the Force India Formula One team, as well as for Jaguar Land Rover. But these were formation laps, so to speak, for his work at Dexory, where he’s finally taken the driver’s seat.
Now that he’s behind the wheel, he’s helping companies optimize their warehouses, a critical factor when, he says, a typical warehouse only runs at 65 percent capacity and carries 20 percent obsolete stock. Critically, Dexory is not making warehouse workers obsolete; it’s helping them, even – especially – as their numbers have begun to dwindle.
“The idea of robots replacing jobs isn’t really the conversation here,” Danescu said, “it's about filling in where there simply aren’t enough people to do the job,” he noted.
In the race to optimize warehouse logistics, Dexory is clearly winning.
