The Ceiling is the New Floor: How AutoPallet is Flipping the Script

AutoPallet Robotics, a Y Combinator 2024 startup, publicly demonstrated its novel palletizing and depalletizing system at Manifest 2026. The company’s approach replaces traditional floor-based robotic arms with small autonomous mobile robots that operate upside down, magnetically attached to a steel ceiling structure above the workspace. These robots use vacuum grippers…