1. ATOMIX Company Profile
ATOMIX (Chongqing) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. is an intelligent logistics solution provider built around AI and robotics technology. As an intelligent logistics robotics company ranked second worldwide in pallet shuttle sales and first worldwide in the number of single-site projects with more than 50 units, ATOMIX centers on the concept of “unlimited warehouse automation.” Its highly flexible Matrix8 intelligent storage and picking system — combining the Matrix8 AI software platform with a hardware portfolio built around the Pallet Shuttle — has been deployed in more than 20 countries, serving leading customers in food cold chain, pharmaceuticals, FMCG apparel and footwear, new energy, manufacturing, and 3PL.
ATOMIX focuses on internal logistics, with AI algorithms as its brain, robotics technology as its body, and industry integration experience as its circulatory system. By bringing together talent and experience from these three domains, it delivers high-density, highly flexible, and readily scalable intelligent logistics products and solutions. From its founding, ATOMIX has held a clear mission: to advance the vision of “unlimited warehouse automation” through flexible automation technology, so that every warehouse can break through physical and functional limits and achieve the ultimate in space utilization and operating efficiency.
Name: ATOMIX Founded: 2011
International name: ATOMIX Robotics Employees: 500
Locations: Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai Legal representative: Xu Qingcai
2. ATOMIX Core Technologies
The 1+4 core technology architecture
1: the Matrix8 AI intelligent logistics software platform
4: the Pallet Shuttle, the Pallet AMR, the Bin AMR, and the Bin Six-Way Shuttle
The Matrix8 Intelligent Logistics Software System
Matrix8-HETU is the intelligent scheduling hub of the Matrix8 system, responsible for scheduling execution along with operations and maintenance management. It covers every operating process in the warehouse and supports a wide range of B2B and B2C business models. Designed for integrated management of complex systems, it enables rapid integration of comprehensive automation and sophisticated robots, one-stop planning, and the entire flow from simulation to maintenance to operations, driving capability innovation across the logistics and supply chain industry and bringing together human-machine collaboration and intelligent IoT.
The system architecture is clearly layered, with well-defined responsibilities, and three engines — i-WMS, WES, and TES — deliver a leap in system performance. The Matrix8 i-WMS intelligent decision engine handles order receipt, allocation, consolidation and splitting, and priority adjustment, along with real-time inventory monitoring and alerts. The Matrix8-WES task execution engine handles dynamic location management, intelligent wave optimization, and inbound and outbound strategy optimization. The Matrix8-TES heterogeneous scheduling engine handles task and capacity allocation and real-time, dynamically optimized route planning.
The Matrix8 intelligent logistics software system delivers highly efficient collaborative intelligence — from wave consolidation, location optimization, and load balancing to multi-robot coordination, route planning, and task scheduling — efficiently coordinating more than a thousand heterogeneous devices. With dozens of built-in AI algorithms, it drives globally optimal efficiency across orders, containers, and machines, and uses deep learning algorithms to keep optimizing itself dynamically.
The Matrix8 system offers three advantages: intelligent efficiency (30% denser locations, 20% higher operating efficiency, and 60% better equipment utilization); stability and reliability (self-healing from exceptions, high-standard recovery, and 99.9% overall system availability); and ease of integration (pre-sales simulation, minimalist APIs, and secondary-development tools). Together they deliver stronger algorithms, more complete functionality, higher warehouse efficiency, and a user-friendly interface for customers.
The Pallet Shuttle
Business today faces more changes, and faster ones, so logistics systems must respond in time. Flexible logistics solutions with low initial investment, rapid delivery, and scalable expansion are becoming the mainstream. ATOMIX therefore introduced its intelligent pallet shuttle system to create a new generation of flexible pallet logistics. It is characterized by discrete equipment and distributed control, so it can be combined and expanded on demand like building blocks. Unlike conventional automation that only works along fixed paths, a pallet shuttle can travel the entire warehouse, and the fleet can be scaled up or down as demand shifts between peak and off seasons or as the business grows. The distributed control architecture not only provides system redundancy but also lets any single pallet shuttle be handled in isolation when a problem occurs, without causing a system-wide failure.
ATOMIX's intelligent pallet shuttle system combines the strategic algorithms of the ATOMIX robotics platform with the multiple advantages of its intelligent software, using artificial intelligence to make the pallet shuttle significantly smarter. The system not only achieves high-density storage but also, through precise and efficient software scheduling, supports high-throughput flows, greatly improving warehouse operating efficiency. The hardware performs just as well, including the matched lifts and other equipment that ensure efficient hardware performance across the system. This close coordination of software and hardware gives the ATOMIX pallet shuttle system its best overall efficiency, and it is now widely used across industries and niche scenarios.
The Pallet Shuttle hardware is ultra-thin (125 mm body), ultra-fast (1.5 m/s no-load speed, 2 m/s² no-load acceleration, and ±2 mm positioning accuracy), ultra-stable (a platform of thousands of proven robots and mechanical structures, operating in temperatures from -30 °C to 40 °C), ultra-safe (laser sensors for fully autonomous obstacle avoidance), and ultra-enduring (charging in ≤1.5 hours, with ≥8 hours of runtime under rated conditions).
The Pallet AMR
The Pallet AMR is used mainly in warehousing and industrial settings. In warehousing it handles transport in the pre-storage area, transport between storage zones, and goods-to-person picking transport; in industrial settings it handles production line replenishment and transport between production lines. It helps companies improve logistics efficiency and reduce costs.
The ATOMIX Pallet AMR stands out for its craftsmanship, intelligence, and safety. It has the industry's best payload-to-volume ratio, with more than 95% of its design built to high-precision industrial standards. Its two-stage chassis adapts better to floor conditions, and a proprietary SoC module delivers high-precision intelligent control. It uses QR code and laser SLAM navigation, reaches 2.25 m/s (no-load speed) and 2 m/s² (no-load acceleration), and provides layered protection through laser, emergency stop, bumper, and scheduling safeguards for all-around safety.
3. ATOMIX Core Products
The Matrix8 intelligent storage and picking platform comprises three subsystem products: Matrix8S (hybrid storage), Matrix8H (hybrid transport), and Matrix8P (hybrid picking). Each subsystem can stand alone to automate storage, transport, or picking respectively, and they can also be combined to better meet the automation needs of customers and integrators across different scenarios.
The Matrix8S hybrid storage subsystem is one of the core products of the ATOMIX Matrix8 high-density storage and picking platform. It consists mainly of the Pallet Shuttle, the Pallet AMR, the Bin Six-Way Shuttle, and the Bin AMR, and can store mixed containers at different levels — pallets, racks, roll cages, and bins — while handling all kinds of irregular items. The distinctive selling point of ATOMIX Matrix8 hybrid storage is that it delivers high throughput while meeting high-density storage requirements for palletized and case goods. In the projects we have implemented, pallet throughput reaches up to 1,000 pallets/hour, thanks largely to our AI-enabled software.
The Matrix8 hybrid transport subsystem makes it easy to run multiple types of heterogeneous robots together in the same space. The Matrix8 hybrid transport system can be applied to inbound and outbound transport in the pre-storage area, long-distance transport and replenishment tasks between storage zones, and picking supply transport in goods-to-person scenarios. The Matrix8 intelligent scheduling system plays to the strengths of each type of robot, maximizing the transport capacity of the system.
The Matrix8 hybrid picking subsystem provides one-stop picking of materials in different specifications, sizes, and storage forms, unifies 2B and 2C business processes, and optimizes the length, time, and staffing of the entire picking flow, meeting every operating requirement of split-case picking scenarios and ultimately maximizing picking efficiency.
The Matrix8 intelligent storage and picking platform has four core advantages: extreme density, extreme efficiency, flexible scalability, and easy module integration. Overall, it combines strong warehouse space management with support for very high pallet and case throughput, while also ensuring comprehensive and outstanding picking efficiency.
The Matrix8 intelligent storage and picking platform can be configured flexibly to business needs, like “building blocks.” Because all equipment is flexible, solution modules can be configured, added, or removed based on goods types, inventory levels, and throughput to enable rapid deployment. It is fully compatible across pallet, bin, and single-item storage and picking, so one platform can match a wide range of scenarios.
4. New Pallet Shuttle
The product launched in 2025 focuses on the ultimate in safety, stability, and efficiency, achieving breakthrough upgrades in three core technologies.
1. Matrix laser protection system: the newly upgraded wide-area diagonal laser plus front and rear ToF-assisted obstacle avoidance expands the detection range by 60% over the previous generation, making safety detection more three-dimensional and reliable and effectively safeguarding collaboration among people, goods, and equipment in complex environments.
2. Intelligent dual-vision system: through automatic exposure and deep learning algorithms, the intelligent dual-vision system achieves 99+% accurate code reading under complex lighting conditions such as sun overexposure and label damage, ensuring efficient system operation. The upgraded ToF area-array laser offset-load detection has an adjustable laser angle, adapting flexibly to different customers' pallets and location environments and effectively reducing false pallet offset-load alarms by 70%. These upgrades in environmental perception significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of put-away, retrieval, and picking operations.
3. All-gear travel structure: the upgraded drive distributes wheel loads more evenly and adds guide wheels, delivering a more stable, more powerful, and quieter operating experience — solid support for continuous 7x24 high-intensity operation.
Together these three upgrades give the new-generation pallet shuttle even more outstanding overall performance, and it is set to deliver greater value in dense storage, flexible manufacturing, and intelligent warehousing.
5. Pallet Shuttle Industry Applications
These are mainly in new energy, food cold chain, pharmaceuticals, apparel and FMCG, 3PL, and intelligent manufacturing.
Ganfeng Lithium (new energy industry)
Industry: new energy / lithium battery materials
Key challenge: raw material industries struggle to recruit manual labor, conventional warehousing is inefficient and costly to operate, and automation and intelligent upgrades are urgently needed to achieve the “lights-out factory” goal.
Solution highlights: an intelligent warehousing system built around 8 PS1500A pallet shuttles and 7 AMR T800 transport robots, together with 2 lifts and the Matrix8 WMS/WCS software system, delivering full-process traceability, high-density storage, and automated operations.
Customer value: 9,600 storage locations in a 2,100 m² warehouse, 50% lower operating costs, and 70% higher space utilization — a replicable benchmark for automation and digital upgrades in the lithium battery industry.
COFCO (food cold chain)
Industry: rice, flour, grain, and oil
Key challenge: rapid business growth and steadily expanding warehousing needs; conventional warehousing operations are inefficient and cannot meet 24-hour production and high-throughput requirements; and plants in multiple locations need automated coordination and long-term technology leadership.
Solution highlights:
(1) Chongqing project: 27 PS1500A pallet shuttles + 8 lifts + 3 palletizing robots, combined with the Matrix8 WMS/WCS software system, automating palletizing, high-density storage, and rapid outbound handling of carton-packed grain and oil products.
(2) Zhangzhou project: 25 PS1800C pallet shuttles + 5 lifts + 5 palletizing robots + automatic pallet exchange and pallet cleaning systems, achieving 13-level storage at 22.5 m in height within an 8,000 m² warehouse and supporting 24-hour linked production.
Customer value:
(1) The Chongqing project provides 9,259 storage locations in a 5,880 m² warehouse with throughput of 251 pallets/hour, greatly improving responsiveness to stores.
(2) The Zhangzhou project raises inventory density by 110% and operating efficiency by 25%, meets the requirement to store 40,000 tonnes of finished sugar, and creates an intelligent manufacturing demonstration base built to “stay ahead for 20 years.”
Both projects achieve full-process automation and systematic control, providing a replicable model for COFCO's intelligent upgrades at its plants in multiple locations across the country.
Jiangsu Aikang (pharmaceutical industry)
Industry: pharmaceutical R&D
Key challenge: a newly built finished-goods warehouse must manage several material types at once (finished-goods pallets, empty pallets, and empty cartons), with demanding requirements for storage density, efficiency, and accuracy.
Solution highlights: a coordinated scheme of more than ten PS1500A pallet shuttles and T800 transport robots handles mixed storage and transport of pallets, bins, and racks. The system increases inventory capacity by 50% and outbound efficiency by 30%.
Customer value: high-density, highly flexible integrated management of multiple materials, ensuring storage accuracy and logistics efficiency for pharmaceutical products.
Shanghai ITW (intelligent manufacturing / automotive)
Industry: intelligent manufacturing / automotive components
Key challenge: supplying leading automakers requires 24-hour continuous operation, and the warehousing solution must be extremely scalable and flexible.
Solution highlights: a pallet shuttle high-density warehouse with a clear height of nearly 20 m, designed to expand to tens of thousands of storage locations in the future. Through flexible scheduling, the project raises operating efficiency by 35% and storage density by 180%.
Customer value: it not only meets current high-intensity operating needs but also establishes a benchmark intelligent warehouse that can scale flexibly with business growth, giving manufacturing customers a future-ready solution.
6. Recent News
1. ATOMIX's Chongqing smart factory officially goes into production, opening a new chapter in its global strategy with “unlimited warehouse automation”
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oLBgckmK3BO9W37nHEr-yA
2. CeMAT Asia 2025 wraps up successfully | ATOMIX opens a new era of logistics with its “innovation matrix”
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/cYNVskBKyCgma0MCJWnixw
3. Delivered on opening day! The first pallet shuttles from the new Chongqing factory head to Mexico
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7O0xaziN0yv5oliXiCGMmQ
7. Company Milestones
ATOMIX's history is a path of progression from frontier technology exploration to deep focus on vertical industries and, ultimately, to globalization and frontier innovation. Its development did not advance strictly in linear chronological order; instead, it is marked by key product launches and strategic moves and can be divided into three main phases:
Phase 1: Frontier technology exploration and business foundations (2011-2017)
It accumulated globally leading computer vision technology and extended the boundaries of its application from the consumer side to city management, laying the algorithmic and industry-understanding foundation for its later entry into robotics.
2011-2016: the company is founded in Beijing and explores machine vision technology.
2017: it begins building a supply chain IoT business, marking the starting point of the company's formal application of AI vision technology to logistics and warehousing scenarios.
Phase 2: Focus on intelligent logistics and core products (2018-2022)
This phase was the critical period for productizing the business and shaping solutions, during which its intelligent logistics operating system and core hardware came to market one after another.
2019: the Matrix8 system is released — effectively an “AI brain” for warehousing and the software core of coordinated robot scheduling.
2022: the “intelligent pallet shuttle system” is launched and becomes its signature hardware product. With its high-density storage and flexible scheduling capabilities, the pallet shuttle quickly became core equipment in smart warehouses.
Phase 3: Global expansion and frontier innovation (2023 to present)
Once its core products had matured, the business moved into global markets and went deeper on the technology frontier.
2023:
The intelligent pallet shuttle makes its debut at Hannover Messe in Germany, beginning its global journey.
It lays out “four vertical-domain large models,” aiming to combine large model capabilities deeply with logistics and other industries and to raise the intelligence of decision-making.
2023-2024: with approval from the Ministry of Science and Technology, it jointly establishes a “National Key Laboratory” with Xi'an Jiaotong University, focusing on frontier directions such as artificial intelligence and robotics and advancing technology innovation at the national strategic level. The robotics business is officially renamed ATOMIX.
2025: a new-generation pallet shuttle is launched at CeMAT 2025, and the new Chongqing factory opens.