# Theseus Robotics

## About
Theseus Robotics builds autonomous shelf-restocking robots for supermarkets. The company is
based in Zürich, Switzerland, and focuses on the "Last 30 Metres" — the gap between backroom
inventory and customer-facing shelves, where in-store execution failure drives a large share
of retail out-of-stocks.

One-liner: Embodied AI for retail stores' $50B labor crisis.

## Core Offering
- Mobile, bimanual robots that restock shelves overnight — no store infrastructure install
- FIFO rotation and expiry-date removal as the core value proposition
- Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) commercial model — no capex for the retailer
- Teleoperation-supervised operation with a growing autonomy envelope

## Approach
- Robot platforms are bought in rather than manufactured in-house
- Base manipulation policy trained on internet-scale supermarket video rather than paid teleoperation data
- Teleoperation and training-data collection infrastructure operated from India
- Designed, integrated, and sold from Switzerland

## Market Context
- $50B+ annual restocking labor spend across Western Europe and North America
- ~8.3% global average out-of-stock rate, 30–60% of it caused by in-store execution failure
- 25% annual turnover among retail floor staff — the highest of any major industry
- Switzerland has the highest grocery labor cost in Europe, giving the best unit economics

## Positioning
Sensing is solved. Stocking isn't. Theseus is a full-stack RaaS focused on automating
European supermarket shelf-stocking — peers solve sensing only, beverages only, or unmanned
kiosks.

## Target Audience
European grocery and supermarket operators, starting with Switzerland.

## Contact
- Email: hello@theseusrobotics.ch
- Website: https://theseusrobotics.ch
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland

## Pages
- Homepage: https://theseusrobotics.ch/
- Request a Pilot: https://theseusrobotics.ch/pilot