— Pilot program
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Four deployments
Hotel · grocery · convenience
San Francisco · Los Angeles
Hotel · grocery · convenience
San Francisco · Los Angeles
Lucen builds autonomous robots that walk grocery aisles, find empty shelves, and put product back where it belongs. One robot. One night. The store opens full.
The work happens between midnight and six. Nobody wants to be there. We made something that does.
Lucen-01 navigates narrow aisles, identifies out-of-stock product with a vision-language model, and places items with SO-101 arms and tendon-driven Aero Hands. No cages. No special infrastructure. You give it a shelf map; it gives you a stocked store.
A wheeled mobile manipulator built around a TurtleBot3 base, SO-101 arms, and Aero Hands. Perception runs on-board on an NVIDIA Jetson with NanoOWL detection and a Qwen3-VL classifier. ACT and SmolVLA policies handle the dexterous work.
Two configurations, depending on store size and complexity.
Same backbone, fewer arms, more sensors. Lucen-02 trades the second SO-101 for an upgraded compute stack and a richer camera array — built for high-density environments where the bottleneck is perception, not throughput.
Single SO-101 + Aero Hand. Jetson AGX 64 GB on-board. Four cameras covering depth, wrist, and field of view. Same ACT and SmolVLA policies as Lucen-01 — every deployment makes both robots smarter.
Pilots starting Q3 2026. Custom pricing for partners.
Most retail robotics companies bolt cameras onto a forklift. Lucen is built end-to-end — from the perception model that sees the gap, to the policy that grasps a soda can without crushing it.
NanoOWL open-vocabulary detection runs at 15 fps on Jetson. Qwen3-VL-4B identifies SKUs at 80% accuracy across 105 product classes. RealSense depth fusion lifts OOS detection to 82% mAP50.
Action Chunking Transformer policies trained on bimanual teleoperation data. Two production tasks deployed: table-to-tray and tray-to-table. SmolVLA in evaluation for generalist behaviors.
SO-101 follower arms with custom Aero Hand integration. Tendon-driven, low-inertia, soft contact. Full teleoperation pipeline running over Tailscale — leader on Mac, follower on AGX.
We ship in public. Every week of progress on hardware, policy, and pilot deployments.
Lucen is taking applications for our 2026 pilot program. Independent grocery preferred. Custom pricing, no install fee, white-glove onboarding.
