6 River Systems is a warehouse fulfillment robotics company founded in 2015 in Waltham, Massachusetts by former Kiva Systems leaders Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, and CTO Chris Cacioppo. Its flagship product is "Chuck," a collaborative autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that works alongside human associates to guide and accelerate order picking, replenishment, and sortation in ecommerce and retail warehouses. The 6RS platform is a cloud-based execution layer that sits on top of a customer's WMS/ERP and exposes a RESTful JSON/HTTPS integration API for order, task, and operational-data exchange rather than a public self-serve developer portal. Shopify acquired 6 River Systems in 2019 for roughly $450M; Ocado Group acquired it from Shopify in May 2023, and the technology now sits within Ocado Intelligent Automation (Ocado Mobile Robot System / OMRS). Chuck has been deployed across 100-plus warehouses for 70-plus customers. Added to the API Evangelist network as a menlo-ventures portfolio lead.
6 River Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Warehouse Automation, Fulfillment, and Autonomous Mobile Robots.
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name: 6 River Systems
description: 6 River Systems is a warehouse fulfillment robotics company founded in 2015 in Waltham, Massachusetts by former
Kiva Systems leaders Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, and CTO Chris Cacioppo. Its flagship product is "Chuck," a collaborative
autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that works alongside human associates to guide and accelerate order picking, replenishment,
and sortation in ecommerce and retail warehouses. The 6RS platform is a cloud-based execution layer that sits on top of
a customer's WMS/ERP and exposes a RESTful JSON/HTTPS integration API for order, task, and operational-data exchange rather
than a public self-serve developer portal. Shopify acquired 6 River Systems in 2019 for roughly $450M; Ocado Group acquired
it from Shopify in May 2023, and the technology now sits within Ocado Intelligent Automation (Ocado Mobile Robot System
/ OMRS). Chuck has been deployed across 100-plus warehouses for 70-plus customers. Added to the API Evangelist network as
a menlo-ventures portfolio lead.
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x-status-note: 6river.com is now a parked/lander domain (homepage redirects to empty /lander); 6 River Systems technology
has been absorbed into Ocado Intelligent Automation (OMRS). No live public developer portal, API documentation, or OpenAPI
surface was found during enrichment.
tags:
- Company
- Robotics
- Warehouse Automation
- Fulfillment
- Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Supply Chain
- Logistics
- E-Commerce
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apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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status: backfilled
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note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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