SVT Robotics has crossed a major milestone: its SOFTBOT Platform has surpassed 4 billion lifetime transactions.
For the Norfolk-based robotics software company, the number is more than a marker of scale. It is a sign of how quickly warehouse automation is changing — and how much value now sits in the data moving between robots, software systems and enterprise platforms.
SVT announced that SOFTBOT is now processing roughly 100 million to 130 million transactions per week. At that pace, the company said it expects to exceed 8 billion lifetime transactions by the end of 2026.
The pace has accelerated sharply. According to numbers shared by the company, SVT processed 47 million transactions in 2022, 97 million in 2023, 674 million in 2024 and 2.2 billion in 2025. Since the start of 2026, the platform has already processed more than 2 billion transactions.
The milestone puts a large number behind a problem SVT has been working on for years: automation systems often do not easily talk to each other. Warehouses may use different robotics vendors, warehouse management systems and enterprise software tools, but those technologies frequently require custom integrations to work together. That can slow deployment, limit flexibility and make it harder for companies to adapt as customer needs, volumes or technology change.
SVT’s SOFTBOT Platform is designed to sit between those systems as a vendor-agnostic integration layer. The company has often positioned the platform as a kind of “USB of robotics,” allowing companies to connect different automation technologies without rebuilding custom code every time a new system is added.
That matters because automation is no longer a one-robot, one-system decision. Large logistics operations may use multiple types of robots, software platforms and workflows inside the same facility. The harder those systems are to connect, the harder it becomes to scale automation across an organization.
SVT’s own deployment numbers show that shift. In 2025, the company added 32 facilities onto the platform, with deployments spanning four continents. Fifteen of those facilities were deployed without SVT services assistance, meaning customers were able to learn and deploy the platform themselves.
That self-deployment point matters. It suggests SOFTBOT is not only being used more often, but also becoming easier to scale across large, complex organizations.
The company’s traction is also showing up with global customers. DHL Supply Chain announced in March that it was deploying SVT’s SOFTBOT Platform across its global warehouse network. DHL said the plug-and-play platform allows robotics integrations up to 12 times faster than traditional custom coding setups, helping the company move away from rigid, one-off integrations toward more flexible warehouse automation.
But the 4 billion transaction milestone points to something larger than faster integrations.
Every transaction moving through SOFTBOT represents a piece of operational activity between systems. SVT says that transaction data can be captured and contextualized to give companies a clearer view of how robots, software and workflows are performing in real time. That visibility can reveal bottlenecks, exception rates, technology dependencies and other details that may be hidden when systems operate in silos.
For A.K. Schultz, CEO and co-founder of SVT Robotics, the transaction milestone is also a reliability signal.
For Schultz, the milestone is also a reliability signal. “You don’t get to 4 billion transactions if your software isn’t robust,” he said. In large logistics environments, downtime can carry major costs, making reliability as important as speed.
That shift is now becoming a central part of SVT’s story. In April, the company introduced SOFTBOT Intelligence, a data capability built on the SOFTBOT Platform that captures and contextualizes real-time execution data across live automation environments. The company described it as a data backbone for enterprise and physical AI, designed to turn fragmented system activity into usable operational insight.
In plain terms: SVT is not only helping companies connect robots. It is helping them understand what those connected systems are doing.
That distinction matters as logistics companies begin applying AI to physical operations. AI models are only as useful as the data they can learn from. In a warehouse, that means understanding not just orders and inventory, but the live interactions between people, robots, software systems and workflows.
Schultz described SVT’s role as becoming “the central nervous system” that connects warehouse technologies, including AI. His view is that AI companies cannot make useful decisions in physical environments if the underlying systems remain locked in disconnected silos.
SVT’s 4 billion transactions suggest the company is operating at the level where those interactions can become measurable, repeatable and useful for decision-making.
For Hampton Roads, the milestone also adds another proof point to the region’s growing innovation story. SVT Robotics is an IHR200 company, part of Innovate Hampton Roads’ rolling list of the region’s most important privately owned companies. Its roots in the region stretch back more than a decade, including early work at Launchpad in Williamsburg and later participation in 757 Accelerate, before growing into a Norfolk-based robotics software company with global reach.
Schultz said that early regional support mattered.
“I wouldn’t have gotten my first check without the accelerator,” he said. “I’m pretty confident of that.”
SVT’s latest milestone shows how far that regional story can travel. A company built in Hampton Roads is now helping global logistics operators connect automation systems, monitor performance and build the data foundation for what comes next.
The 4 billion number is the headline. The bigger story is what it represents: a Norfolk company moving from robotics integration into the infrastructure layer for warehouse intelligence.
