Aformic.

Aformic builds autonomous mobile robots for factory and warehouse intralogistics, the transport work between dock, line, and rack that most plants still do with forklifts and manual labor. The company is headquartered in Duncan, South Carolina, with operations in Gliwice, Poland.

The product has two halves. F Series robots do the physical work. They move pallets and lift loads, and they slide under carts. QURSOR, the company's fleet management platform, handles the coordination, assigning tasks and planning paths while monitoring the whole floor in real time.

What they're building

The F Series spans ten models. The lifting robots are automated versions of familiar machines, from pallet jacks and stackers to counterbalance forklifts and a reach truck that lifts 1,600 kilograms to 4.8 meters. The underride robots slide beneath carts and racks, with payloads from 300 kilograms up to 6,000. Navigation is SLAM-based, and the robots pair 360-degree obstacle detection with 3D cameras and Sick safety laser scanners. Positioning accuracy is one centimeter on most models.

QURSOR is the part that makes a fleet usable. It assigns tasks, plans paths, coordinates multiple robots, tracks inventory, and supports Kanban workflows. The software is built for plants as they actually are, where aisles are tight and people and forklifts share lanes, with AGVs from other vendors already on the floor. It integrates with existing factory IT and OT rather than demanding a greenfield.

Why we backed the founders and team

Intralogistics is a physical bottleneck, and it does not yield to software alone. Aformic builds the machine and the coordination layer together, from drives, masts, and safety scanners to the fleet logic that keeps a busy floor from gridlocking. That is assembly in the sense we mean it. Hardware, safety systems, and software are integrated into something a plant manager can actually run.

Most of this work never demos well. It is safety certification, sensor calibration, integration with control systems written decades ago, and the slow accumulation of uptime in facilities that cannot afford to stop. We back companies that take that work on. Aformic does it from a base in South Carolina's Upstate manufacturing corridor, robot by robot, plant by plant.