About us
We're behind a more productive warehouse team.
VersaTile Automation builds robotic tiles that move goods inside warehouses and distribution centres. Thousands of tiles shuffle loads in parallel under a single AI engine. The idea is concurrency: everything can move at once, so nothing has to move fast.
Discipline, brought to the floor.
A handful of fast machines doing serial work can't keep up with modern eFulfilment. So we inverted the model: cost-effective hardware running thousands of slow, reliable, concurrent moves: buffering, sequencing and presenting, so pickers stop walking and start picking.
It works alongside your existing ASRS and automation, over a standard API — driving automation into environments it could never reach before.
How we work
What we believe.
Mechanism over hype
We'd rather show you how the system works than tell you it's revolutionary. If a claim can't survive your scepticism, we shouldn't be making it.
Designed around your limits
Real operations are messy. We build for brownfield sites, odd footprints and mixed loads; not the perfect greenfield.
Genuine partnership
We model, design and deliver alongside your team, and stay close once the floor is live.
Proven, not experimental
Cost-effective, tried-and-tested hardware. The novelty lives in the AI engine where it belongs.
From our CEO
“Customers appreciate our honest, collaborative and open approach to understanding and solving their problems.”
Brian Palmer — CEO, VersaTile
The team
We're a team of roboticists, engineers and operators rethinking how goods move.
Leadership
Brian Palmer
CEO
The engineer who built Tharsus into one of the UK's leading technology and robotics groups, now bringing that scale-up track record to VersaTile.
Richard Laycock
CFO
Eleven years as CFO/FD of Stobart Group, bringing large-cap financial rigour and public-market experience.
Tom Clancy
CPTO
Sixteen years at Ocado, leading the Advanced Technology division responsible for their robotic picking products.
Peter Tyler
Chairman
A private equity and venture capital veteran with global M&A and fundraising experience across DeepTech and manufacturing.
Team
David Fairbairn
Lead Mathematician
Dainius Narsutis
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Glen Goodfellow
Solutions Manager
Kamil Janiec
Senior Software Engineer
Yuto Sugawara
Mathematician
James Robinson
Lead Software Engineer
Mateusz Wnetrzak
Software Engineer
Joao Pestana
Software Engineer
Mike Hilton
Business Development Principal
Come build with us.
If concurrency excites you as much as it does us, we'd like to hear from you. We're always interested in talking to roboticists, engineers and operators who want to rethink how goods move.
Get in touch →Want to see it on your floor?
A walkthrough is the fastest way to understand what VersaTile could do in your operation.