Automating theLast 30 Metres
Autonomous shelf-restocking robots for retail supermarkets.
Autonomous robots that restock grocery shelves overnight, freeing your team to focus on customers.
No capex. No IT integration. No supervision.
Restocking is retail's most expensive repetitive task.
Retailers spend billions every year moving product from the back room to the shelf. It's a repetitive, physically demanding task with brutal turnover. When execution fails, shelves go empty.
$50B+spent per year
Spent on restocking labor alone across supermarkets in Western Europe and North America.
25%annual turnover
European & American grocery floor staff. Mercer 2025: retail has the highest turnover of any major industry.
8.3%OOS rate
Global average out-of-stock event level, stable for 30 years. 70–90% events are caused by in-store execution failure.
—The most expensive labor line in grocery is also the least stable, and the work itself is what keeps shelves empty.—
Restocking. Overnight. Autonomous.
Theseus deploys in your store without integration or capex. The robot works the overnight window, restocks your shelves, checks the inventory, and hands the floor back to your team by morning.
Deploy
Robot arrives pre-configured. No IT integration, no infrastructure changes, no capex. Pay a monthly fee, like any other service.
Restock
Every night, the robot moves product from back room to shelf. Remotely supervised by Theseus operators, your staff will never need to touch it.
Verify
As the robot restocks, it maps every shelf it touches. Inventory stays accurate to the shelf, and phantom stock gets caught before customers do.
—Your store opens stocked. Your team starts the day on customer-facing work, not on pallets.—
Our Design Approach
Theseus is built to gets a working robot into your store as soon as possible.
20% SKU Focus
Theseus starts where the volume is. We focus on the 20% of SKUs that drive ~80% of in-store handling: beverages, milk, ambient staples, baked goods, personal care products.
Wheeled Humanoid, No Legs
Supermarkets are designed for carts. Flat floors, wide aisles, predictable layouts. Compared to bipedal legs, wheels are cheaper, enable longer battery life, move faster, and are passively stable.
Overnight Window
Stores are closed for up to 10 hours per night. Theseus operates in that window. No shoppers to navigate around. No safety burden. No daytime disruption. No time wasted.
Pays for itself from the first month.
Theseus is priced as a flat monthly service with no capex, no maintenance fees, no surprises. One robot replaces 6 man-hours per overnight shift and works every night without turnover, training, or sick days.
CHF 3,000
per robot, per month
Your numbers
Edit to estimate- Restocking hours automated / robot / night
- Up to 6h
- Monthly fee per robot
- CHF 3,000
- Operating nights per year
- 300
Estimated Annual Net Savings
CHF 144,000
Across 10 stores · 10 robots total
- Monthly labor savings
- CHF 42,000
- Monthly robot fees
- CHF 30,000
- Monthly net savings
- CHF 12,000ROI+40%
Based on Swiss and EU retail labor benchmarks. Full methodology available on request.
Let's Talk
Tell us about your needs. We'll set up a 30-minute call to scope a pilot. Typical pilots run 10–14 weeks in one location, with no commitment beyond the pilot period.