Deus puts general-purpose robots to work. Our OS gives every warehouse task to a person or a robot of any make. 8 sites live, revenue 5x to $3M this year, $1.4M LA deal. Raising now.
Current Status
Sites: 8 sites are live with 8 paying customers, in parcel, retail and e-commerce.
Revenue: growing 5x in 2026, to about $3M.
DPD UK: turned our trial into a production order, with up to 5x productivity.
US: we signed our first contract, $1.4M with an LA apparel brand including the expansion phase. Phase 1 goes live in Q4 2026, and we’re in talks worth $40M+ with similar US customers.
Pilot: a paid pilot where a humanoid and a robot arm hand out parcels for a postal customer.
Team: 42 people, 11 of them PhDs.
Problem or Opportunity
Warehouses can’t hire enough people: 78% of US warehouses struggle to hire, and staff turnover is above 40% a year. Robots are the answer, but each robot maker runs its own software island, humanoids add another one, and people are planned in a separate system. Nobody decides, task by task, who should do the work. As a result, fleets get fenced into zones, every new robot becomes an integration project, and every demand peak becomes a hiring problem.
Solution (product or service)
Deus is Physical AI that runs the warehouse as one workforce, an operating system for robots and people. It splits every order into tasks and gives each task to the best worker: a person, a robot of any make, or a humanoid. It also coordinates traffic, stations and charging, and connects to the customer’s WMS once. Every task is logged as training data, and as robots learn new skills, the OS shifts that work from people to robots on the same system. Customers buy a working site, not robots:
we simulate their real orders in 1–2 weeks;
supply any maker’s robots;
deploy in phases;
Business model
One contract per site covers robots, racks, stations, software, deployment and support. Customers buy outright or pay monthly over 36–60 months, and own the equipment at the end. Software and support recur every year on every robot, about $2.6–3.5K per robot per year. Sites grow in phases: the LA customer starts with 5 robots and can grow to 24 under the same contract. Today’s revenue mix is 70% hardware, 15% software and 15% services, and the recurring share grows with every robot added.