Gideon has made its TREY autonomous forklift available in North America and says it can handle every pallet when loading or unloading a trailer, Automated Warehouse reports. The company calls trailer work the hardest warehouse job to automate, since every load, trailer and dock is different.
According to Gideon, TREY moves up to 28 pallets or cages an hour, single- or double-stacked, or 224 in an eight-hour shift, and works with dry van, refrigerated, drop-deck and intermodal trailers. The heavy-duty model carries up to 6,000 lb (2,721.5 kg) for 10 hours per charge, and the medium-duty model 3,500 lb for 12 hours.
Gideon, founded in 2017, has headquarters and test sites in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and Osijek, Croatia, $75 million in venture funding and a long-term partnership with Toyota Industries. The company says TREY already works in car plants, food and drink distribution centres and at third-party logistics providers.
Edin Kočo, co-founder and chief robotics officer, said the factory Gideon opened in October 2025 has reached capacity. He called TREY "the first critical step in loading bay automation".
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Gideon
Company
Gideon develops autonomous robots and navigation software for warehouses and manufacturing. Its Trey forklift moves palletized loads between loading bays and truck trailers.
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TREY
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Trey is Gideon's autonomous forklift for loading and unloading truck trailers. It combines camera-based perception with other sensors to find pallets, navigate docks and respond to changes around a load.
